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Machine Learning That’s Light Enough for an Arduino: Adafruit’s Limor Fried ported TensorFlow Light to the Arduino ecosystem

Machine Learning That’s Light Enough for an Arduino: Adafruit’s Limor Fried ported TensorFlow Light to the Arduino ecosystem so you can make your own AI-powered projects
Source: ieee.org

A kauri tree stump is kept alive by its neighbours through hydraulic coupling. Forests should be viewed as living organisms.

A kauri tree stump is kept alive by its neighbours through hydraulic coupling. Forests should be viewed as living organisms. "Trees are commonly regarded as distinct entities, but the roots of many species fuse to form natural root grafts allowing the exchange of water, carbon, mineral nutrients, and...
Source: cell.com

Cloudy Sulawesi: The International Space Station was crossing over the equator when an astronaut looked east and took this

Cloudy Sulawesi: The International Space Station was crossing over the equator when an astronaut looked east and took this photo just after a sunrise.
Source: nasa.gov

Training medical students to manage difficult circumstances- a curriculum for resilience and resourcefulness?: In response

Training medical students to manage difficult circumstances- a curriculum for resilience and resourcefulness?: In response to the growing prevalence of physical and emotional burnout amongst medical students and practicing physicians, we sought to find a new methodology to scope a five-year undergraduate...
Source: biomedcentral.com

The AI That Could Help Curb Youth Suicide: For many reasons, parents and teachers may fail to intervene when they spot signs

The AI That Could Help Curb Youth Suicide: For many reasons, parents and teachers may fail to intervene when they spot signs of trouble in LGBT teens. Can Google help?
Source: theatlantic.com

Intel’s Neuromorphic System Hits 8 Million Neurons, 100 Million Coming by 2020: The 64-chip Pohoiki Beach system is used

Intel’s Neuromorphic System Hits 8 Million Neurons, 100 Million Coming by 2020: The 64-chip Pohoiki Beach system is used by researchers to make systems that learn and see the world more like humans. "At the DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit today in Detroit, Intel plans to unveil an 8-million-neuron...
Source: ieee.org

Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern: WHO

Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern: WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a Public Health Emergency of International...
Source: who.int

Gaining insights with Natural Language Processing of Reddit Data to Evaluate Dermatology Patient Experiences and Therapeutics.

Gaining insights with Natural Language Processing of Reddit Data to Evaluate Dermatology Patient Experiences and Therapeutics. "There is a lack of research studying patient-generated data on Reddit, one of the world’s most popular forums with active users interested in dermatology. Techniques within...
Source: sciencedirect.com

Virtual worlds can have good as well as negative effects: Psychologist Pete Etchells on his book, Lost in a Good Game.

Virtual worlds can have good as well as negative effects: Psychologist Pete Etchells on his book, Lost in a Good Game. " ... a psychologist at Bath Spa University in England but still an avid gamer, Etchells specializes in understanding the behavioral effects—both positive and negative—of video...
Source: arstechnica.com

Measles is killing more people in the DRC than Ebola—and faster: "Frankly, I am embarrassed to talk only about Ebola,"

Measles is killing more people in the DRC than Ebola—and faster: "Frankly, I am embarrassed to talk only about Ebola," WHO director-general says. Since January 2019, officials have recorded over 100,000 measles cases in the DRC, mostly in children, and nearly 2,000 have died. The figures surpass those...
Source: arstechnica.com

APOD: 2019 July 14 - Eagle Aurora over Norway

APOD: 2019 July 14 - Eagle Aurora over Norway
Source: nasa.gov

Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software: The moon landing was one of the most important moments in the history of computing,

Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software: The moon landing was one of the most important moments in the history of computing, laying the foundations for everything from fly-by-wire cockpits to the smartphones in our hands.
Source: wsj.com

Chimps bond with each other and people after watching a film together: Shared experiences make people feel closer - and

Chimps bond with each other and people after watching a film together: Shared experiences make people feel closer - and they also seem to help great apes bond with each other and with humans. The BBC also covered this study How chimpanzees bond over a movie together.
Source: newscientist.com

Development of new antibiotics encouraged with new pharmaceutical payment system: The NHS will test the world's first ‘subscription’

Development of new antibiotics encouraged with new pharmaceutical payment system: The NHS will test the world's first ‘subscription’ style payment model to incentivise pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs for resistant infections. "The new trial will be led by the National Institute for...
Source: www.gov.uk

Boys' HPV vaccine 'to stop thousands of cancers': All boys in the UK aged 12 to 13 will be offered the vaccine from the

Boys' HPV vaccine 'to stop thousands of cancers': All boys in the UK aged 12 to 13 will be offered the vaccine from the start of the new school year.
Source: bbc.com

Electric cars 'will not solve transport problem': Car use will still need to be curbed, even when all vehicles use clean

Electric cars 'will not solve transport problem': Car use will still need to be curbed, even when all vehicles use clean electricity, a report warns.
Source: bbc.com

Interested in shared decision making? What does it really mean to remove the distance between a doctor and their patient

Interested in shared decision making? What does it really mean to remove the distance between a doctor and their patient or family when managing the most complex of medical cases? Then read this. Matt Morgan, a colleague of mine from OnExamination days, an intensive care specialist in Cardiff, has written...
Source: simonandschuster.co.uk

A New Model for Integrating Behavioral Science and Design. Part of the ‘Nudge turns 10’ issue. A model for being creative

A New Model for Integrating Behavioral Science and Design. Part of the ‘Nudge turns 10’ issue. A model for being creative with design informed by behavioural science. “Thaler and Sunstein knew that nudges were a piece of the behavioral change puzzle but not the only piece. So what’s missing?”...
Source: behavioralscientist.org

Thinking about the workforce of the future? Then I highly recommend this best-selling book by Adam Kay - a trainee doctor

Thinking about the workforce of the future? Then I highly recommend this best-selling book by Adam Kay - a trainee doctor in the NHS having burnt-out in his training before becoming a fully qualified Obstetrician. It is important reading for anyone wondering how the world of busy medical staff could...
Source: twitter.com

How do you define a scenario? Researchers in Futures & Foresight Science suggest an approach based on published literature.

How do you define a scenario? Researchers in Futures & Foresight Science suggest an approach based on published literature. The approach suggests a series of questions (see diagram) to challenge a particular phenomenon to check if it is a scenario that can be used in future planning - or if it is...
Source: wiley.com