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in title, tags, annotations or urlRepulsive Curves | DeepAI - 0 views
World's First 'Living Machine' Created Using Frog Cells and Artificial Intelligence | Live Science - 0 views
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Using AI to design and build a micro organism to perform a task. Full publication can be found here: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2020/01/07/1910837117.full.pdf
Trust your gut: A new study shows second-guessers make worse decisions - The Washington Post - 3 views
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:) always thought so!
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The direct link without the Washington post paywall https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329131866_Going_With_Your_Gut_The_Inaccuracy_of_Forecast_Revisions_in_a_Football_Score_Prediction_Game
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Actually read the paper now and think that this is very doubtful that this could be generalised. They used predictions for football games by those betting on outcomes ...
(PDF) Comparison study of MPM and SPH in modeling hypervelocity impact problems - 1 views
The Moon's mantle unveiled - 2 views
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first science results reported in Nature (as far as I know) from the Yutu-2 and Chang'e mission .... and they look very good!
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Sure they are very useful! It will be even better if they manage to fit the data to modeled circulation of the lunar magma ocean that was formed posterior to the "Theia" body collision with Earth. The collision was the cause of the magma ocean in the first place. The question now is how this circulation pattern of the lava-moon "froze" in time upon phase transition to solid. Because, what crystallizes last in sequence, is more rich in "incompatible" with the crystal structure, elements, we might combine data+models to predict their location. Those incompatible tracers are mainly radioactively decaying elements that produce heat (google publications about lunar KREEP elements (potassium (K), rare earth elements(REE), and phosphorus(P)). By knowing where the KREEP is: - we know where to dig for them mining (if they are useful for something, eg. Phosphorus for plants to be grown on the Moon) - we avoid planning to build the future human colony on top of radioactives, of course. The hope is that the Moon, due to lack of plate tectonics, has preserved this "signature of the freezing sequence". Let's see.
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thanks Nasia! very interesting comment
Frontier Development Lab (FDL): AI technologies to space science - 3 views
Applications might be of interest to some: https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/blog/2019/3/1/application-deadline-extended-cftt4?fbclid=IwAR0gqMsHJCJx5DeoObv0GSESaP6VGjNKnHCPfmzKuvhFLDpkLSrcaCwmY_c ...
Better Language Models and Their Implications - 1 views
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Just read some of the samples of text generated with their neural networks, insane.
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It's really lucky that it was OpenAI who made that development and Elon Musk is so worried about AI. This way at least they try to assess the whole spectrum of abilities and applications of this model before releasing the full research to the public.
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They released a smaller model, I got it running on Sandy. It's fairly straight forward: https://github.com/openai/gpt-2
Reinforcement Learning with Prediction-Based Rewards - 3 views
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Prediction-based method for encouraging reinforcement learning agents to explore their environments through curiosity (reward for unfamiliar states). Learns some games without any extrinsic reward!
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Fun failure case: agent gets stuck in front of TV.
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Not read this article but on a related note: Curiosity and various metrics for it have been explored for some time in robotics (outside of RL) as a framework for exploring (partially) unfamiliar environments. I came across some papers on this topic applied to UAVs when prep'ing for a PhD app. This one (http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~yogesh/publications/crv2014.pdf) comes to mind - which used a topic modelling approach.
Citizen science: Eyewire discovers 6 new types of neurons - 5 views
Here is a the publication in Cell Journal (>29,000 coauthors): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.04.040 ...and I am a coauthor, because I played it while in the ACT! Lol
FB pre-trained deep neural net on billion image user-hashtag dataset - 0 views
The Truth about China's Cash-for-Publication Policy - MIT Technology Review - 2 views
Calling Bullshit - 2 views
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A college course at University of Washington on "Calling Bullshit". We should invite them to give a lunch lecture at ESA... Our aim in this course is to teach you how to think critically about the data and models that constitute evidence in the social and natural sciences. While bullshit may reach its apogee in the political domain, this is not a course on political bullshit. Instead, we will focus on bullshit that comes clad in the trappings of scholarly discourse. Our learning objectives are straightforward. After taking the course, you should be able to: * Remain vigilant for bullshit contaminating your information diet. * Recognize said bullshit whenever and wherever you encounter it. * Figure out for yourself precisely why a particular bit of bullshit is bullshit. * Provide a statistician or fellow scientist with a technical explanation of why a claim is bullshit. * Provide your crystals-and-homeopathy aunt or casually racist uncle with an accessible and persuasive explanation of why a claim is bullshit. We will be astonished if these skills do not turn out to be among the most useful and most broadly applicable of those that you acquire during the course of your college education.
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love it: "Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Higher education rewards bullshit over analytic thought. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. Advertisers wink conspiratorially and invite us to join them in seeing through all the bullshit - and take advantage of our lowered guard to bombard us with bullshit of the second order. The majority of administrative activity, whether in private business or the public sphere, seems to be little more than a sophisticated exercise in the combinatorial reassembly of bullshit. We're sick of it. It's time to do something, and as educators, one constructive thing we know how to do is to teach people. So, the aim of this course is to help students navigate the bullshit-rich modern environment by identifying bullshit, seeing through it, and combating it with effective analysis and argument."
SS-520 No. 4 Launch Results | ISAS - 3 views
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At 8:33 a.m., (Japan Standard Time) January 15, 2017, SS-520 No. 4, JAXA's sounding rocket launched from the Uchinoura Space Center. Through SS-520 No. 4 launch, JAXA sought for research and development of launch vehicles and satellites and the launch demonstration of TRICOM-1, its onboard nanosat that weighs about 3 kilograms. The launch was part of Japanese government's program for development of launch vehicles and satellites in public-private partnerships. Long story short: Space-X has the better fireworks
IBM Makes Quantum Computing Available on IBM Cloud - 1 views
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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.
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Looks interesting.. Have you tried it?
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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.
One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) | - 1 views
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"The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, launched in the fall of 2014, is a long-term investigation of the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its influences on people, their communities, and society." (...) "The report is designed to address four intended audiences. For the general public, it aims to provide an accessible, scientifically and technologically accurate portrayal of the current state of AI and its potential. For industry, the report describes relevant technologies and legal and ethical challenges, and may help guide resource allocation. The report is also directed to local, national, and international governments to help them better plan for AI in governance. Finally, the report can help AI researchers, as well as their institutions and funders, to set priorities and consider the ethical and legal issues raised by AI research and its applications."
Moral Machine - 1 views
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"A platform for public participation in and discussion of the human perspective on machine-made moral decisions" Machine Ethics is basically the return of philosophy through code. Here you can learn a bit about it, and help the MIT collect data on how humans make choices when faced with ethical dilemmas, and how we perceive AIs making such choices.
Have We Detected Megastructures Built By Aliens Around A Distant Star? | Popular Science - 7 views
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Really? Is this what we were all waiting for?
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to be honest, while the alien megastructure is a cookie idea, I highly doubt that those aliens woke up one day and thought: "hm, let's send laser pulses at this particular random spot in space sometime in the next 6 days".