Advanced Concepts Team

Protein Folding solved by AI?

Another bubble is coming to its end, it seems!

Really nice visualizations for rectifier (ReLU) neural nets, illustrating the effects of skip-connections, depth, width, etc. on the loss function curvature.

A comprehensive guide into the memristor.

What happens if you strap NSGA-II to optimize the usage of your abstract data structures?

Wisdom of crowds under a new perspective: a motivation for the island model?

quasicrystalline superlattice that self-assembles from a single type of nanoparticle building blocks

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!

I love the car animation!

An alternative to photon-beam driven sails?

And we get another step closer to neuromorphic computing

Learnability cannot be proven! An important theoretical brick on machine learning capabilities.

Serious stuff!! Trump made people do space stuff and Netflix makes a series out of it.

for the ACT architects .... Can we do the same for the Moon Village? We brainstorm on some mathematical simplified objectives for growing the settlement (taking inputs from the modular growth, resources, terrain suitability etc ....), we define some simple rules for growth and we optimize. ..... easy peasy (i am serious)

i agree, with most of the parameters that would actually be really cool. but doesn't it get very messy once economy plays a large factor?

We can start studying the ideal case, or add also some economical constraints on the settlement layout ...

There goes your moon base...

Google Deepmind about to reveal recent progress on AI for a complex competitive eSport title.

Starship and the Super Heavy:P made of steel. Well, maybe makes sense.... read the article

First really strong evidence that the vestibular system affects sleep architecture, sleep stability and sleep spindles. If there is an effect due to a changing acceleration there might also be an effect of no gravity vector. We'll find out when I get the space shuttle data.

Nice story telling. (watch the video) The materials are actually cool, but the venus flytrap pitch (hinting at a biomimetic success) or the embodied intelligence speech are "a bit" of a stretch,

Not new, but always good to read: British intelligence recommend not having password expiry dates. Something we should apply at ESA!

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