Scientists from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), developed a highly-sensitive nano-thermometer that uses atom-like inclusions in diamond nanoparticles to accurately measure temperature at the nanoscale. Stripe to hire more than 100 remote software engineers in North America A quantum origin for spacetime: Physicists find hints that entanglement explains Einstein’s equations for gravity …
Tag Archives: Machine learning
QDNC Issue #16
View at Medium.com Yes, I know. I’ve been gone for a month. Very eventful month it is. In the meantime, I’ve dumped all the links to interesting news read in April. Quick one liners: In a first on the quest to cure HIV, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health scientists report that they’ve …
QDNC Issue #15
Deep Science AI merges with Defendry. Defendry was working on establishing automated workflows for internet of things devices including notifying a company when triggered by dangerous situations like weapons, fires, and robberies, or situations suggesting that a crime is about to begin. Similarly, Deep Science AI’s computer vision system could spot guns, masks, and other …
QDNC Issue #7
Startup in China uses gait recognition technology to identify people. Said to be accurate even with disguise and faked limps. Currently it is tested for criminal investigations, but it screams intrusion, especially in CN. Deep learning optimizes based on parameters and weights of a neural network through a stochastic gradient descent (backpropagation) which can be …
QDNC Issue #4
McKinsey Insights has a compilation of amazing articles. Today’s list is – unintentionally – centred around fintech. Because McKinsey articles are so comprehensive, I find it hard to summarize its essence, but the quality content compelled me to highlight them anyway! I highly recommend reading the articles in full instead. Financial and regulatory risks associated …
Q.uark: Creativity in AI
Entrepreneur: Elon Musk Predicted Artificial Intelligence Would Be ‘Seriously Dangerous’ by 2019. How Close Is That to Reality?. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/323278 A great point brought up here – that AI could be narrow (trained to do a specific set of tasks) or general (intelligence that is fluid, creative, like humans are). The current state of AI is, …
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