Advanced Concepts Team

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

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

And we get another step closer to neuromorphic computing

An alternative to photon-beam driven sails?

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!

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

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

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

A comprehensive guide into the memristor.

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

Another bubble is coming to its end, it seems!

Protein Folding solved by AI?

There we go: Deep Learning predicts disruptions in plasmas. The paper related to this article is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02242

NVIDIA published around 154 talks focussed on AI from their conference this year...

"We construct a novel large-scale, multi-modal dataset by pairing geo-referenced Wikipedia articles with satellite imagery of their corresponding locations."

Why not power an airplane with an ion thruster?

We should apply this also for space habitats

Yeah, put everything in a computer and let it think about it.

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."

Do you lack inspiration? Feeling not creative (enough)? How about doing something really really boring?

GANs are striking again...