Blekko launches human-driven search engine
(AP) -- If Google and Wikipedia were to procreate, their offspring might look something like Blekko, a new search engine with results culled by people, not computer algorithms.
Internet
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Why your cat is lousy at chess yet way smarter than even the most advanced AI
If you share your home with a dog or a cat, look at it carefully and you will get a good overview of everything we don't know how to do in artificial intelligence.
Veterinary medicine
Oct 22, 2019
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Solving puzzles without a picture: New algorithm assembles chromosomes from next generation sequencing data
One of the most difficult problems in the field of genomics is assembling relatively short "reads" of DNA into complete chromosomes. In a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences an interdisciplinary ...
Biotechnology
Jan 10, 2013
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Auctions, traffic, selfishness, and data privacy: It all comes down to math
Every time you run a Google search, a split-second automated auction takes place to determine which of many competing companies will get to fill the ad space in your browsing window. The program controlling that auction is ...
Mathematics
Nov 8, 2011
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Unlocking the promise of approximate computing for on-chip AI acceleration
Recent advances in deep learning and exponential growth in the use of machine learning across application domains have made AI acceleration critically important. IBM Research has been building a pipeline of AI hardware accelerators ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 29, 2018
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Artificial intelligence: Getting better at the age guessing game
Scientists are developing artificial intelligence solutions for image processing, which have applications in many areas including advertising, entertainment, education and healthcare. They have, for example, developed computer ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 2, 2012
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Crowdsourcing creates a database of surfaces
(Phys.org) —Computer graphics are moving off the movie screen and into everyday life. Home remodeling specialists, for example, may soon be able to to show you how your kitchen would look with marble countertops or stainless ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 28, 2013
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'Space warps' project needs your help
(Phys.org) —Astronomers are asking volunteers to help them search for "space warps." More commonly known as "gravitational lenses," these are rare systems with very massive galaxies or clusters of galaxies that bend light ...
Astronomy
May 8, 2013
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Next-generation sound systems to minimise background noise
(PhysOrg.com) -- The whole listening experience in cars, cinemas, theatres, and even during videoconferences, is likely to improve radically thanks to a new set of tools for application development being assembled by European ...
Engineering
Jul 24, 2009
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Rethinking spin chemistry from a quantum perspective
Researchers at Osaka City University use quantum superposition states and Bayesian inference to create a quantum algorithm, easily executable on quantum computers, that accurately and directly calculates energy differences ...
Materials Science
Jan 19, 2021
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