Painting the unfamiliar: Why the first European paintings of Australian animals look so alien to our eyes
In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo.
In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo.
Plants & Animals
Aug 21, 2023
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Have you recently considered deleting your Facebook account, boycotting Amazon or trying to find an alternative to Google? You wouldn't be alone. The tech giants are invading our privacy, misusing our data, strangling economic ...
Internet
Mar 12, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) translates documents, suggests treatments for patients, makes purchasing decisions and optimises workflows. But where is its moral compass? A study by the Centre for Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 7, 2019
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A fish on the Great Barrier Reef continually acquires new information from its environment—the location of food, the murkiness of the water, and the sounds of distant ships, to name a few examples. But only some of that ...
Mathematics
Oct 23, 2018
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We have seen significant recent progress in pattern analysis and machine intelligence applied to images, audio and video signals, and natural language text, but not as much applied to another artifact produced by people: ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 16, 2018
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Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have presented a prototype of a multi-device system that can involve citizens in managing emergencies. The system, which can be used through a smart tabletop, can identify ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 14, 2017
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A risk assessment measurement system drawing on data from financial news feeds is in a testing phase with end users such as private investment banks, investment funds and pension funds.
Economics & Business
Jan 12, 2016
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Machine learning, which is the basis for most commercial artificial-intelligence systems, is intrinsically probabilistic. An object-recognition algorithm asked to classify a particular image, for instance, might conclude ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 1, 2015
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Many of the online social networks match users with each other based on common keywords and assumed shared interests based on their activity. A new approach that could help users find new friends and contacts with a greater ...
Internet
Jun 30, 2015
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As computing tools and expertise used in conducting scientific research continue to expand, so have the enormity and diversity of the data being collected. Developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the Graph Engine ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 9, 2014
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