Remembering the people
Please suggest some technology that might help ... but remind me who you are first. What do you use to keep track of everyone that you work with, live near, party with, study with, or just share time with? Mere humans can only maintain about 150 close relationships (Dunbar's number) so just wondering...
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Fatalism - the stalemate of us vs. COVID-19
Stephen Casper - medical historian at Clarkson University - offers a worrying prediction for COVID for the end of 2022. The analogy for COVID-19 won't be influenza but 'tuberculosis before the discovery of antibiotics'. A new hospital specialty might even exist - looking after COVID patients - and they...
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How global conferences are using tech to stay in business
"Moving events online kept the industry going during the pandemic and now they're here to stay." Notable mentions of the conferences Collision, Web Summit, and RISE, and the speed networking software Mingle. "[T]he Distance Learning Association's Thomas Capone says that the future of meetings and events...
Source: bbc.com
Using GPT-2 to generate Tweets
Last summer I blogged about using a Deep Neural Network to generate tweets but only used 3200 of my tweets. Since then I've used Twitter's archive mechanism to retrieve ALL my tweets (just over 30,000) to train a network. Not any old network - the GPT-2 model from OpenAI. This 'finetuning' of an existing...
Decade-long study shows half of all rivers in the world heavily impacted by humans
A team of researchers from several institutions in France and China has conducted a decade-long study of the degree of human impact on river systems around the world over the past two centuries. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their study and what their findings revealed.
Source: phys.org
Introducing Open-AI's DALL-E.
Ever wondered what an armchair in the shape of an avocado might look like? Introducing Open-AI's DALL-E.
Does this help with accessibility by explaining things in pictures from written words? Does it risk replacing humans in the creative industry with machines?
"DALL·E: Creating Images from...
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Is heutagogy the future of education?
Fred Garnett, an educationalist, from the Heutagogy Stakeholder Group - a UNESCO initiative. "Humans developed the capability of 'social learning' over millennia before settlements enabled the development of 'civilisation'. We then invented education formalising what we had previously learnt informally....
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Reviewing research about the evolution of complex cognition in birds
Reviewing research about the evolution of complex cognition in birds: So far, the majority of studies investigating brain functions and intelligence have been carried out either on humans or animals that are known to be most similar to humans, such as monkeys, apes, and other mammals. Nonetheless, some...
Source: phys.org
Solving Rubik
Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand: We've trained a pair of neural networks to solve the Rubik’s Cube with a human-like robot hand. Instead of thinking too much about the complex algorithms to solve the task they instead focus on creating complex worlds where the machine can learn. This of course...
Source: openai.com
SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity is seen in cases of COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS, and uninfected controls: Memory T cells induced by previous pathogens can shape the susceptibility to, and clinical severity of, subsequent infections1. Little is known about the presence of pre-existing memory T cells in humans with...
Source: nature.com
Curious Neanderthals may have been early scientist explorers investigating volcanoes.
Neanderthals may have climbed an active volcano soon after it erupted: Footprints on an extinct Italian volcano suggest ancient humans were regular visitors, and the shapes of the tracks point to the identity of the trackmakers. "A set of preserved footprints suggests that ancient humans often went scrambling...
Source: newscientist.com
Are there automation-resistant intelligences? The question we all want to ask is 'will my job be taken over by a robot?'
Are there automation-resistant intelligences? The question we all want to ask is 'will my job be taken over by a robot?' "Our model predicts that most workers in transportation and logistics occupations, together with the bulk of office and administrative support workers, and labour in production occupations,...
Source: ox.ac.uk
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
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
Humans blamed for mass wildlife loss: A WWF report blames "exploding consumption" for average losses of 60% among vertebrates
Humans blamed for mass wildlife loss: A WWF report blames "exploding consumption" for average losses of 60% among vertebrates since 1970.
Source: bbc.com
The New Science of Designing for Humans (SSIR): The rise of behavioral science and impact evaluation has created a new way
The New Science of Designing for Humans (SSIR): The rise of behavioral science and impact evaluation has created a new way for engineering programs and human interactions.
Source: ssir.org
A robot has performed eye surgery on humans for the first time: For the first time, six people have had eye surgery performed
A robot has performed eye surgery on humans for the first time: For the first time, six people have had eye surgery performed by a robot that was able to filter out the tremors from a surgeon's hand
Source: newscientist.com
Network theory links behavioral information flow with contained epidemic outbreaks: Over the last two decades, large-scale
Network theory links behavioral information flow with contained epidemic outbreaks: Over the last two decades, large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases have resulted in high levels of morbidity, mortality, and overall economic burden for affected regions. As complex networks become increasingly popular...
Source: phys.org
Neanderthals were distilling tar 200 thousand years ago in Europe: These early humans were using tar to make tools long
Neanderthals were distilling tar 200 thousand years ago in Europe: These early humans were using tar to make tools long before Homo sapiens did.
Source: arstechnica.com
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