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The generated inputs are quite strange, I wonder where else something like this occurs.

interesting article - what happened to real innovation? "Thiel is caustic: last year he told the New Yorker that he didn't consider the iPhone a technological breakthrough." - Is it?

I think there are a few difficulties when assuming that the macroscopic block of glass will accelerate instantaneously. Also, if I prevent the block from moving would it become perfectly reflective as no momentum can be transferred to it? One could say that the momentum is then transferred to the larger system that holds the glass. But surely I could make that system (or even the block of glass) so heavy that it would not move more than Planck's length during the passage of the photon - especially if the glass is very thin or the light is very red.

The human brain both stores and processes information at the same time. Now computer scientists say they can do the same thing The human brain is an extraordinary computing machine. Nobody understands exactly how it works its magic but part of the trick is the ability to store and process information at the same time.

NASA's oldest interstellar spacecraft is suddenly measuring changes more dramatic than any it has seen during its 35 year journey

this is very nice! in either of the explanations Voyager will likely be in good enough shape to send data when outside of the boundary layer ...

anybody of you already playing around with this open source toy?

My son Patrick has done his training period in MIT on this NAO. type "NAO Bechon" and you will get some results including a nice video...

Roughly half of the researchers in robotics I know work on Naos, including those in my lab...

any idea if what the canadians claim to sell is closer to a quantum computer than what they did 2011? (I remember Luzi's comment back then that this had nothing to do with a quantum computer) Canada being member state of ESA ... should we start getting interested?

First post. Was at the MIT museum last month and saw a holographic video of a rabbit. One step closer to a 'Princess Leia'-style option for your smartphone

They already surfing in the quantum web...

Winter is coming... and deep learning, too!

"Sergey Brin has said he wants to build a benign version of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey" ... didn't they try to do that in that movie called "2001: A Space Odyssey" ?

Maybe it is not yet too late for ESA to stop our plans of outsourcing IT ... Sometimes it is good to be late :-)

"Applications for the film extend beyond getting rid of wrinkles, though. It can safely deliver medications for 24 hours at a time as well as protect the user's skin, particularly over wounds. Additionally, the XLP material can reduce moisture loss. "

Physicists from MIT explain why deep learning is that much successful using physics.

A sonification experiment taking data from ATLAS and translating it into music. The outcome was played at Montreux jazz fest, listen to the results in soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/sonification-quantizer. The way it works is "A tiny subset of collision data from the ATLAS Detector (in CERN, Switzerland) is being generated and streamed in real-time into a sonification engine built atop Python, Pure Data, Ableton, and IceCast." Code's in github https://github.com/cherston/Quantizer_public

Materials exposed to a high-radiation environment such as the inside of a nuclear reactor vessel can gradually degrade and weaken. A new approach to allow assessment of radiation damage in materials, on real time!