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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Marcus Maertens

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Scientists establish freaky two-way communications with lucid dreamers - 0 views

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    Success rate is a little questionable, but as a proof of concept this is good enough I guess.
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Power generation from ambient humidity using protein nanowires | Nature - 0 views

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    Sounds juicy...
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amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-excel: Computer Vision Basics in Microsoft Exc... - 2 views

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    One of the best use cases for MS Excel so far.
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A scalable photonic computer solving the subset sum problem | Science Advances - 0 views

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    +1 for team photon!
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Sun's surface seen in remarkable new detail - BBC News - 2 views

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    Short movie, but very calming to watch. 4/5
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Paralysed man moves in mind-reading exoskeleton - BBC News - 0 views

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    Thibault, 30, said taking his first steps in the suit felt like being the "first man on the Moon".
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AI competitions don't produce useful models - Luke Oakden-Rayner - 2 views

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    This is an interesting viewpoint on the applicability (usefulness) of AI models devised by competitions, backed up by easy statistics. Worth a read!
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Who needs qubits? Factoring algorithm run on a probabilistic computer | Ars Technica - 2 views

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    advantages: p-bits run on room temperature and are easier to connect than q-bit.
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A Moon Space Elevator Is Actually Feasible and Inexpensive: Study | Observer - 1 views

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    Recent study on a moon-based space elevator towards GEO
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Rocket Lab Announces Reusability Plans For Electron Rocket | Rocket Lab - 0 views

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    They want to catch the first stage of the Electron "Mid-air", using a helicopter. Would love to see that!
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LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light | The Planetary Society - 2 views

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    Crowd-funded LightSail is sailing in space!
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pyrasite: Tools for injecting code into running Python processes - 2 views

shared by Marcus Maertens on 26 Jul 19 - No Cached
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    Need to tap into a python session? Look no further!
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Space Engine - the universe simulator - 3 views

shared by Marcus Maertens on 25 Jul 19 - No Cached
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    Procedural generation for creating space stuff!
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AI Portraits Ars - 8 views

shared by Marcus Maertens on 23 Jul 19 - No Cached
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    An interesting project that can teach you something about AI training bias. While the system can generate marvelous portraits, it was trained on images displaying not a smiling expression, so it will most likely fail on smiling photos.
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Parents Name Their Baby 'Google' After...Google - 4 views

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    His little sister is called "Bing"... not?
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No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game - 1 views

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    Another victory for our future robo-overlords.
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StarCraft II Official Game Site - 4 views

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    Correct me, if I am wrong, but AFAIK this is the first time an AI enters a ladder, i.e. playing against humans on their own terms in the wild and not as part of some pre-arranged experiment.
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Japan's Hayabusa2 probe makes second touchdown on distant asteroid | The Japan Times - 1 views

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    Collecting space rocks.
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Will California's New Bot Law Strengthen Democracy? | The New Yorker - 1 views

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    California wants to force bots to reveal their identity in communication.
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Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from materials science literature... - 1 views

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    New results in NLP might allow to automate scientific discoveries by data mining of papers. Work considers 3.3M abstracts from material science, physics and chemistry and claims to discover new materials before they are published later on.
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    That's cool! Didn't know.
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