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Big Hero 6's Programmable Nanobots Are on the Horizon - 2 views

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shared by Marcus Maertens on 09 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • Marcus Maertens on 09 Dec 15
     
    This collaborating swarm of drones acts as 3D pixels (voxels) to create giant, flying interactive displays.
  • Thijs Versloot on 10 Dec 15
     
    I have never understood the flying part of these things. Isn't it really impracticle to have all those tiny quadrocopters zooming around. My money is on holography or still a google glass type of device, if only considering the energy requirements for doing anything kinetically.
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Roboticists learn to teach robots from babies - 2 views

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shared by Nina Nadine Ridder on 02 Dec 15 - No Cached
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  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 02 Dec 15
     
    Babies learn about the world by exploring how their bodies move in space, grabbing toys, pushing things off tables and by watching and imitating what adults are doing. But when roboticists want to teach a robot how to do a task, they typically either write code or physically move a robot's arm or body to show it how to perform an action.
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Small, cheap gravity gadget to peer underground - BBC News - 2 views

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shared by Alexander Wittig on 31 Mar 16 - No Cached
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  • Alexander Wittig on 31 Mar 16
     
    According to their Nature article, they can detect "a tunnel less than 1m across, buried 2m underground" just from its gravitational difference. Using a device that they predict could cost ~100 € in mass production. UK researchers have built a small device that measures tiny fluctuations in gravity, and could be used to monitor volcanoes or search for oil. Such gravimeters already exist but compared to this postage stamp-sized gadget, they are bulky and pricy.
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Python is becoming the world's most popular coding language - Daily chart - 3 views

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shared by Marcus Maertens on 10 Oct 18 - No Cached
  • Marcus Maertens on 10 Oct 18
     
    In the past 12 months Americans have searched for Python on Google more often than for Kim Kardashian, a reality-TV star. The number of queries has trebled since 2010, while those for other major programming languages have been flat or declining.
  • dharmeshtailor on 11 Oct 18
     
    Likely this is correlated with the increased interest in machine learning in the past decade - all the popular DL libraries are Python-based after all...
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2017 AI Index Report - 2 views

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  • mkisantal on 17 Oct 18
     
    "Without the relevant data for reasoning about the state of AI technology, we are essentially "flying blind" in our conversations and decision-making related to AI [...] The AI Index is an initiative to track, collate, distill and visualize data relating to artificial intelligence. "
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AI at Google: our principles - 4 views

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shared by Marcus Maertens on 11 Jun 18 - No Cached
  • Marcus Maertens on 11 Jun 18
     
    Google is taking position here, but can they live up to their own standards?
  • Dario Izzo on 21 Jun 18
     
    " Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias." Thats the very definition of the AI used today. If you learn from a dataset, you are biased to that data set. No escape from it.
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Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth by 40 percent - 3 views

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shared by johannessimon81 on 04 Jan 19 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 04 Jan 19
     
    Did we just solve overpopulation and climate change? With 40% more efficient crops we could easily sustain 10+ billion people on Earth. And 40% more efficient plants would absorb much more CO2 than we are emitting (currently: artificial CO2 emission ~29 GT/y, photosynthesis CO2 capture through plants ~450 GT/y) I am usually very worried about the risks of climate change, but this could be a real game changer!
  • Marcus Maertens on 07 Jan 19
     
    I love the car animation!
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Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 0 views

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shared by jaihobah on 26 Oct 17 - No Cached
  • jaihobah on 26 Oct 17
     
    This best-in-class streaming algorithm works by remembering just enough of what it's seen to tell you what it's seen most frequently. It suggests that compromises that seemed intrinsic to the analysis of streaming data are not actually necessary.
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The problems with forcing regular password expiry - NCSC Site - 2 views

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shared by benjaminroussel on 29 Jan 19 - No Cached
  • benjaminroussel on 29 Jan 19
     
    Not new, but always good to read: British intelligence recommend not having password expiry dates. Something we should apply at ESA!
  • Marcus Maertens on 30 Jan 19
     
    I second that. It has been an open secret for long though that frequent password changes are creating more problems than they solve. See Bruce Schneier: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/frequent_passwo.html
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ESA Servers Hacked - 11 views

tinkode27.baywords.com/esa-int-hacked-full-disclosure technology internet
shared by Juxi Leitner on 09 May 11 - No Cached
  • Juxi Leitner on 09 May 11
     
    uups :)
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  • Francesco Biscani on 09 May 11
     
    whoops indeed
  • LeopoldS on 10 May 11
     
    sounds really bad ... how bad is it???
  • Ma Ru on 10 May 11
     
    Heads will fall in ESRIN... And now I know who crashed my computations on sophia ;-) [Edit] A lesson for everyone: look at the file with email passwords and see how many you are able to guess even though they're supposed to be scrambled by removing a middle part... [Edit] And a hilarious quote from the hacker's "about me": "I had another blog, more exactly www.tinkode.baywords.com but I forgot the password, so now I created this one."
  • LeopoldS on 11 May 11
     
    got the reply from IT security today: they had dealt with apparently the very same day and all under control :-)
  • Ma Ru on 12 May 11
     
    Well, I wouldn't expect a reply: "all our past emails have been downloaded and sold to NASA" even if that was the case.
  • Francesco Biscani on 12 May 11
     
    Of course Marek is right... What matters is the theatre of security, not security itself. Just like in airports :)
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Norris Numbers - 5 views

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shared by Dario Izzo on 23 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 23 Feb 18
     
    A nice programming guide explaining thoughts I often try to pass on
  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 23 Feb 18
     
    The fact that this article is written in two languages, one is english and the other one is russian...? I get the impression that russians are among the first to hit upon such barriers before the rest of us do, from scaling their programming to bumping upon theory of chaos etc etc Imho.
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Japanese Space Research Center will be Suspended Over a Moonlike Crater - 1 views

www.universetoday.com/...spended-over-a-moonlike-crater architecture habitat technology
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  • hannalakk on 22 Nov 18
     
    They are developing so-called "Avatar" technology which will allow people to control robots remotely, as in the movie "Avatar." With Avatar X, they hope to revolutionize space exploration, resource extraction, and other space-based activities. On the Avatar X website, it says, "AVATAR X aims to capitalize on the growing space-based economy by accelerating development of real-world Avatars that will enable humans to remotely build camps on the Moon, support long-term space missions and further explore space from afar."
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NASA Is Developing 'Soft Robots' to Help Explore Other Worlds | Space - 2 views

www.space.com/s-could-crawl-on-the-moon.html technology ESAchallenge
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  • icheibas on 09 May 19
     
    interns at NASA are looking into soft robot actuators
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Comeback for Genetic Algorithms...Deep Neuroevolution! - 5 views

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shared by dharmeshtailor on 27 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • dharmeshtailor on 27 Feb 18
     
    Genetic algorithms are a competitive alternative for training deep neural networks for reinforcement learning. For paper see: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.06567.pdf
  • Marcus Maertens on 28 Feb 18
     
    Interesting pointers in this one! I would like to explore neuroevolution as well, although it seems extremely resource-demanding?
  • Dario Izzo on 06 Mar 18
     
    Not necessarily, I think it can be made to be much faster hybridizing it with backprop and Taylor maps. Its one ideas in the closet we still have not explored (Differential Intelligence: accelerating neuroevolution).
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IBM Makes Quantum Computing Available on IBM Cloud - 1 views

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  • Alexander Wittig on 12 May 16
     
    IBM for the first time ever is making quantum computing available to the public, providing access to a quantum processor via the cloud. Users can create algorithms and run experiments and get inspired by the possibilities of a quantum computer.
  • jcunha on 23 May 16
     
    Looks interesting.. Have you tried it?
  • jcunha on 07 Oct 16
     
    Mathias Troyer from ETH Zurtich gave a talk in Leiden where he showed what he wants to be the replacement to this IBM programming or the best ally of it - program quantum computers with, for instance, python code. Nice developments coming from the quantum coding field, besides the fact we are ages away from a practical quantum computer.
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The AI Revolution: Why Deep Learning Is Suddenly Changing Your Life - 1 views

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shared by Luís F. Simões on 30 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • Indeed, corporations just may have reached another inflection point. “In the past,” says Andrew Ng, chief scientist at Baidu Research, “a lot of S&P 500 CEOs wished they had started thinking sooner than they did about their Internet strategy. I think five years from now there will be a number of S&P 500 CEOs that will wish they’d started thinking earlier about their AI strategy.” Even the Internet metaphor doesn’t do justice to what AI with deep learning will mean, in Ng’s view. “AI is the new electricity,” he says. “Just as 100 years ago electricity transformed industry after industry, AI will now do the same.”
  • Luís F. Simões on 30 Sep 16
     
    A good historical overview of the Deep Learning revolution. If you think the quote above is an exageration, here are some fresh news from Microsoft: Internal email: Microsoft forms new 5,000-person AI division
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Exposed subsurface ice sheets in the Martian mid-latitudes - 1 views

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  • jaihobah on 12 Jan 18
     
    Some locations on Mars are known to have water ice just below the surface, but how much has remained unclear. Dundas et al. used data from two orbiting spacecraft to examine eight locations where erosion has occurred. This revealed cliffs composed mostly of water ice, which is slowly sublimating as it is exposed to the atmosphere. The ice sheets extend from just below the surface to a depth of 100 meters or more and appear to contain distinct layers, which could preserve a record of Mars' past climate. They might even be a useful source of water for future human exploration of the red planet.
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Scientists to grow 'mini-brains' using Neanderthal DNA - 3 views

www.theguardian.com/...i-brains-using-neanderthal-dna science BIO
shared by jaihobah on 18 May 18 - No Cached
  • jaihobah on 18 May 18
     
    Scientists are preparing to create "miniature brains" that have been genetically engineered to contain Neanderthal DNA, in an unprecedented attempt to understand how humans differ from our closest relatives.
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Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now - 2 views

www.eff.org/...es-require-you-take-action-now INF security
shared by marliesarnhof on 14 May 18 - No Cached
  • marliesarnhof on 14 May 18
     
    no cutting-edge space-related science, but important anyways
  • benjaminroussel on 15 May 18
     
    The EFF communicate is actually quite inaccurate. This is disappointing from the EFF, though for some part, it is due to the communication from the researchers who "discovered" the attack. PGP itself is not broken, but rather some implementations on some email clients (notably Enigmail, though it was patched several months ago). See https://protonmail.com/blog/pgp-vulnerability-efail/ On the other hand, if you are very keen on security, there is an XSS attack reported on Signal, so… https://thehackernews.com/2018/05/signal-messenger-code-injection.html The *good* recommendation here is actually rather to keep your software stack up to date (surprising, no?) and keep encrypting your emails.
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Assured Autonomy - 5 views

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shared by Dario Izzo on 04 May 18 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 04 May 18
     
    lol, while ESA is sending around memos and its managers are spending time talking about validation and verification of AI methods ... US / DARPA is already 5-6 years ahead. Hopefully the ACT can contribute to this with our DA based approach ....
  • LeopoldS on 13 May 18
     
    your call
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