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Marcus Maertens

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
microno95

Introducing LCA: Loss Change Allocation for Neural Network Training | Uber Engineering ... - 2 views

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    Fascinating insight into the question of how networks learn.
LeopoldS

Project Zero: A very deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild - 3 views

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    rather impressive! and frightening
LeopoldS

Stretchable pumps for soft machines - 1 views

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    Interesting paper on flexible pumps, maybe also of interest for thinner more comfortable EAV suits
koskons

A Political History of Apollo | The Planetary Society - 2 views

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    Another entry by the Planetary Society for the Apollo 11 50th anniversary, this time a podcast series on its political background.
LeopoldS

Dark matter might predate Big Bang epoch - 2 views

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    Dark matter (DM) may have its origin in a pre-big-bang epoch, the cosmic inflation.
darioizzo2

China plans to launch a constellation of AI-powered satellites - 6 views

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    MEGA CONSTELLATION and AI ... China again :)
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    and we did not even propose it ...
Marcus Maertens

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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    if a geologist hears you calling them rocks they will curse you collectively. I am in a workshop where some of those are present and I constantly remind myself to call them "minerals".
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    minerals sound much better indeed ... but what is wrong with rocks ? :-)
LeopoldS

XNRGI develops EV battery tech that extends range to 700 miles | Digital Trends - 1 views

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    as so many battery breakthroughs before, this one also looks promising ... for the time being
Marcus Maertens

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!
Marcus Maertens

LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light | The Planetary Society - 2 views

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    Crowd-funded LightSail is sailing in space!
Marcus Maertens

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!
Marcus Maertens

Space Engine - the universe simulator - 3 views

shared by Marcus Maertens on 25 Jul 19 - No Cached
microno95 liked it
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    Procedural generation for creating space stuff!
Marcus Maertens

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.
Marcus Maertens

Parents Name Their Baby 'Google' After...Google - 4 views

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    His little sister is called "Bing"... not?
koskons

Reconstructing the Cost of the One Giant Leap | The Planetary Society - 2 views

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    How much did Apollo cost?
Marcus Maertens

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.
Marcus Maertens

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.
Marcus Maertens

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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    ACT did that from diigo post digging in the retreat of 2014! Still without NLP.
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    That's cool! Didn't know.
Marcus Maertens

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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