Information theory holds surprises for machine learning
New SFI research challenges a popular conception of how machine learning algorithms "think" about certain tasks.
New SFI research challenges a popular conception of how machine learning algorithms "think" about certain tasks.
Computer Sciences
Jan 24, 2019
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From high winds and heavy rainfall to droughts and plummeting temperatures, people in Europe have already begun to feel the effects of extreme weather. As we get used to this new reality, scientists are investigating how ...
Environment
Jan 17, 2019
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The founder of China's Huawei, the world's biggest supplier of network gear to phone and internet companies, says his company would not share secrets about its customers and their communication networks.
Business
Jan 15, 2019
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Finding defects in electron microscopy images takes months. Now, there's a faster way. It's called MENNDL, the Multinode Evolutionary Neural Networks for Deep Learning. It creates artificial neural networks—computational ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 28, 2018
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Since US President Donald Trump weaponised the term "fake news" during the 2016 presidential election campaign, the phrase has gone viral.
Internet
Dec 15, 2018
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A scientist involved in expanding quantum communication to a network of users, is continuing his work at the University of Bristol.
Optics & Photonics
Dec 13, 2018
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There is a deep connection between planning and inference, and over the last decade, multiple researchers have introduced explicit reductions showing how stochastic planning can be solved using probabilistic inference with ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 30, 2018
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There's plenty of speculation about what artificial intelligence, or AI, will look like in the future, but researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) are already harnessing its power.
Quantum Physics
Oct 22, 2018
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Now that school is back in session, many high schoolers have new phones, new computers and new privileges for using their devices – and new responsibilities too. High schoolers today are more technology-savvy than average ...
Security
Aug 30, 2018
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Facebook on Wednesday said it has suspended more than 400 of thousands of applications it has investigated to determine whether people's personal information was being improperly shared.
Internet
Aug 23, 2018
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