How to crowdsource your decision-making (or not)
Whether you are choosing a restaurant or the destination for your next vacation, making decisions about matters of taste can be taxing.
Whether you are choosing a restaurant or the destination for your next vacation, making decisions about matters of taste can be taxing.
Social Sciences
Jun 6, 2018
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Understanding the microscopic structure of a material is key to understanding how it functions and its functional properties. Advances in fields like materials science have increasingly pushed abilities to determine these ...
Optics & Photonics
May 23, 2018
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A machine learning method called "deep learning," which has been widely used in face recognition and other image- and speech-recognition applications, has shown promise in helping astronomers analyze images of galaxies and ...
Astronomy
Apr 23, 2018
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Social media and the sharing economy have created new opportunities by leveraging online networks to build trust and remove marketplace barriers. But a growing body of research suggests that old gender and racial biases persist, ...
Internet
Apr 20, 2018
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In a first for machine-learning algorithms, a new piece of software developed at Caltech can predict behavior of bacteria by reading the content of a gene. The breakthrough could have significant implications for our understanding ...
Biochemistry
Apr 19, 2018
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Researchers in the University at Buffalo School of Management have developed a new algorithm that cloud computing service providers can use to establish pricing and allocate resources.
Internet
Apr 18, 2018
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Two physicists at ETH Zurich and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a novel machine-learning algorithm that analyses large data sets describing a physical system and extract from them the essential information ...
General Physics
Mar 29, 2018
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U.S. Army Research Laboratory scientists have discovered a way to leverage emerging brain-like computer architectures for an age-old number-theoretic problem known as integer factorization.
Computer Sciences
Mar 22, 2018
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Bees? Great. Ants? Hit or miss. Slime mold amoebas? Fail. Though nature offers excellent design inspirations in some information technology systems, in other systems, it can bomb.
Plants & Animals
Feb 19, 2018
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Biologists have long understood the various parts within the cell. But how these parts interact with and respond to each other is largely unknown.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 12, 2018
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