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Along the same lines, I'd be interested in seeing what is the difference in incorrect arrests in communities with facial recognition and without. Its terrible that anyone is falsely accused, but if the use of the technology decreases
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Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome
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I have managed multiple research organizations, in businesses and academia. Without a goal and process the institute will be a failure. It will fail to produce interesting results. It will fail to attract and grow talent. And it will fai
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> Four years later, in 2020, Forrester reported that the A.I. market was only $17 billion. This seems like vast under accounting for the current impact of AI. Every interesting technology used in the market is differentiated by its appl
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Q2 2020 through Q1 2021 achieved the specified goal. https://www.statista.com/statistics/715421/tesla-quarterly-v...
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The statistic that PG didn't write about but seems to pertinent is that the number of millions has increased more than 10 fold from 1980 to 2020. 1992 story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/199
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While it wouldn't hurt, I don't think it is necessary. As with any large ML conference, many reviewers are in industry. I don't know the mix of industry to academic reviewers, but would not be surprised if it was biased tow
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Do you want to do better in your current position? Then the answer is to get better deliberately . Do this through seeking mentorship and studying up on where you are feeling less confident. Seeking mentorship is simple enough, talk to t
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Highly over simplified, but the idea is that the curvature of space-time is smooth but quantum mechanics is discrete.
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There is a lot of great advice here, but I will add two things to consider that haven’t been spoken to. The first is portability and your personal transportation options. You will want to travel around to observe. The second is imaging, wh
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I am not saying it is better or worse, but I would say not one of them wants to be regulated as such. So they are setting themselves up for a result they are trying to avoid. Perhaps it is unavoidable, and actually for the better.
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The problem I see is that they are walking directly in to oversight through their concerted actions. They are going to end up being labeled public utilities (identity, max comm, public market have already been labeled so).
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Is this particular move by Apple, Google, Facebook, and Twitter the end of big tech in the US? My concern the following. These companies have shown that they wield a huge amount of power. With their actions in the Georgia Senate in removi
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DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 Explained (Yannic Kilcher on YouTube)
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One piece of advice I’ve found valuable is to write in books. On successive reference it has surprised me what I had thought first time through, and it doesn’t take me out of the book to make the note. It did take a while to get over the f
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Same, with a similar trajectory but not similar investments for the future. This Old Tony, Applied Science, and Abomb were all strong motivators. Great luck with the business venture.
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I think one answer is a new, lighter weight libel law that is a civil offense. At the moment, current libel and defamation laws in the US have too high a test to overcome. In particular, the public figure can be stretched to cover online p
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Amazon Alexa wiring for the home. The use of alarms, timers, ambient music, and room-to-room conversation with the family has all been more transformative than I could have expected.
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Thanks for your co tribute is to this discussion, it is a well reasoned opinion. In response to your question, there are a few articles easily found including a wiki page in 3D printed space craft. No manned rocket as of yet, but orbit has
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By way of example, NileRed and AppliedScience take extremely different approaches to both presentation and acknowledging sponsorship.
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One thing always missed in these articles is that 2.7% of the work force makes minimum wage, and that population is not stable (people quickly move out of this baseline). https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wa
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Its a common experience, but prior to earned recognition, signaling priority of science over art is trope on the culture.
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Unraveling one of prion disease's deadly secrets
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Aside from Shor's, the other is Grover's algorithm which deals with search in an unstructured database. There are more and more superpolynomial speedups which have been discovered in application of QC. A good enumeration of thes
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If you can find Walter Lewin's courses online, they can get you through the first years of physics. The main way to learn physics though, on your own or in a program, is by doing problems and labs. You can start by doing the coursewo
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What I believe unique about this year's outbreak is that it is the first "social" pandemic; where in everyone is connected to a nonstop stream of both information and misinformation regarding its development.
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I used to wonder about this often, and many years ago wrote simulations to model traffic. The introduction of connected on/off ramps were the main cause of congestion due to acceleration, merging, etc. Exit before/ merge after we
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Facebook's similar program was started by an ex-Googler
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Tsinghua?
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This can't be understated. The potential of self-driving cars is so vastly immense, it is hard to see at what level it will stop having a positive impact on people. And this potential reaches across every level of autonomy. Its just
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