Enlarge / Algorithms, a complicated work in progress. (credit: Getty Images) Editor's note: I realize that I do not correctly calculate the Bragg transmission in either the classical or the quantum case, however, it is close enough to get an idea...
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Facebook’s engagement is through the roof, but it’s because we’re sharing stories that make us outraged like never before.
A little more than a year ago, Mark Zuckerberg announced he was changing Facebook’s news feed...
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Whether probing the evolution of galaxies or discovering new chemical compounds, algorithms are detecting patterns no humans could have spotted.
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One researcher is warning everyone that “we are setting ourselves up for technological domination.” Dionysios Demetis warned that algorithms are “using and even controlling” human beings.
Humans...
The suspected shooter posted xenophobic YouTube videos online days before the attack.
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The artificial intelligence market is often cited as the next frontier for many tech companies, since AI algorithms can quickly crunch large amounts of data to automate decisions. However, AI is frequently tossed around as a buzzword, which makes it...
Citi and JPMorgan in recent weeks closed down the teams on their corporate-bond trading desks that handle smaller sized bonds known as "odd lots."
The margins on trading these smaller bonds were too thin to substantiate specific teams dealing...
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At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2019, Microsoft yesterday announced that it is open sourcing Project Zipline, a data compression algorithm that offers up to 2X high compression ratios versus the commonly used Zlib-L4 64KB model....
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The amount of data that the big cloud computing providers now store is staggering, so it’s no surprise that most store all of this information as compressed data in some form or another — just like you used to zip your files back in the...
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IBM‘s figured out how to ignore noisy qubits and run machine learning algorithms in quantum feature spaces. Eureka-cadabra! The age of quantum algorithms is upon us. A team of IBM researchers created a pair of quantum classification algorithms and...
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Researchers have repurposed an algorithm originally developed for Netflix's 2009 movie preference prediction competition to create a method for acquiring classical Raman spectroscopy images of biological tissues at unprecedented speeds. The advance...
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Jigsaw, which is owned by Google parent company Alphabet, has released Tune, an experimental Chrome extension that lets users hide comments its algorithms identify as toxic. It is available for Mac, Windows, Linux and the Chrome OS. Tune builds on...
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Engineers have developed a robot that can feed people dinner. Powered by an artificial intelligence algorithm, the system detects pieces of food on a plate, stabs them with a fork, and transports the morsels to a person’s mouth.
The post Eat up!...
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As corporations rapidly roll out advanced artificial intelligence, we need to develop strong safeguards capable of meeting the risks.
Michael Kearns, a leading machine learning researcher, recently addressed a group of 60 esteemed scientists at the...
Google's Gboard is packed with features, including great ways to search for GIFs and images, and ways to make typing easier. Now, it's about to get even better due to Google bringing its speech-recognition algorithms into the phone.
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A new study has demonstrated mathematically that algorithms based on deep neural networks can be applied to better understand the world of quantum physics, as well.
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The software transforms the hunt for patterns with the click of a button. It's much faster than the old method of analysts sifting through reports.
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Human babies are unique in the animal world in that they are born with no ability to care for themselves or walk. Other animal species have offspring that are ready to run with the herd within a very short time of being born. Animals like giraffe or...
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This is what happens when algorithms call the shots.
I can still recall my surprise when a book by evolutionary biologist Peter Lawrence entitled The Making of a Fly came to be priced on Amazon at $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping). While my...
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Let people look inside the black box of the algorithm, and their mistrust, hostility, and fear will gradually melt away. Right? Well, kinda.