Best 'sweet spots' on the backboard
According to Larry Hunter, the act of banking a basketball off the backboard and into the hoop is becoming a lost art.
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Mar 10, 2011
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Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter
Using Wikipedia, Technion researchers have developed a way to give computers knowledge of the world to help them “think smarter,” making common sense and broad-based connections between topics just as the human mind does. ...
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Jan 6, 2007
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New programming language delivers fourfold speedups on problems common in the age of big data
In today's computer chips, memory management is based on what computer scientists call the principle of locality: If a program needs a chunk of data stored at some memory location, it probably needs the neighboring chunks ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 13, 2016
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New AI method increases the power of artificial neural networks
An international team of scientists from Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Derby, has developed a revolutionary method that quadratically accelerates artificial intelligence ...
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Jun 20, 2018
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Not Much Anonymity for Unprotected File-Sharers: Researchers Examine P2P Networks
The same technology that allows easy sharing of music, movies and other content across a network also allows government and media companies easy access to who is illegally downloading that content.
Computer Sciences
Sep 26, 2007
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What makes an image memorable? We tend to remember pictures of people much better than wide open spaces
Next time you go on vacation, you may want to think twice before shooting hundreds of photos of that scenic mountain or lake.
Computer Sciences
May 24, 2011
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Study finds gender bias in open-source programming
A study comparing acceptance rates of contributions from men and women in an open-source software community finds that, overall, women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's - but when a woman's gender ...
Computer Sciences
May 1, 2017
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Scientists slash computations for deep learning
Rice University computer scientists have adapted a widely used technique for rapid data lookup to slash the amount of computation—and thus energy and time—required for deep learning, a computationally intense form of ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 1, 2017
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World's toughest encryption scheme found 'vulnerable'
It was announced last week that cryptography researchers have found a “vulnerability” in the encryption scheme used in the vast majority of secure online transactions – a scheme known as AES-256.
Computer Sciences
Aug 23, 2011
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System for performing 'tensor algebra' offers 100-fold speedups over previous software packages
We live in the age of big data, but most of that data is "sparse." Imagine, for instance, a massive table that mapped all of Amazon's customers against all of its products, with a "1" for each product a given customer bought ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 31, 2017
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