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Inside the Tech Industry’s Obsession With Immortality

Posted by Zoltan Istvan in life extension, transhumanism

Feb 17
2017

A new in-depth read on #transhumanism and life extension by one of the leading and oldest progressive magazines in America:

Only Human Meet the hackers trying to solve the problem of death.

By Anna Wiener

Astonishing geomagnetic spike hit the ancient kingdom of Judah

Posted by Sean Brazell in energy

Feb 17
2017

Planentary magnetic fields how do they work —

Astonishing geomagnetic spike hit the ancient kingdom of Judah.

If this were to happen again today, the electrical grid could be a smoking ruin.

Save your phone screen with this incredible liquid

Posted by Shane Hinshaw in mobile phones

Feb 17
2017

This invisible liquid will make your phone screen as hard as sapphire.

You Own Things With Gravity-Defying Gel in Them

Posted by Shane Hinshaw in chemistry

Feb 17
2017

A quirk of chemistry makes this liquid pour itself.

Swiss trash

Posted by Shane Hinshaw in futurism

Feb 17
2017

This Swiss-made trash can teach the world how to get rid of garbage in style.

Keep up with the latest: http://bit.ly/2jAqlHz

Ford just invested $1 billion in a secretive AI startup founded by former Google and Uber execs

Posted by Alireza Mokri in engineering, robotics/AI, transportation

Feb 17
2017

Ford is investing $1 billion in a secretive artificial intelligence startup headed by former Google and Uber execs to advance its self-driving car efforts.

The startup, Argo AI, was founded by Bryan Salesky, the former director of hardware for Google’s self-driving-car efforts, and Peter Rander, Uber’s engineering lead at its autonomous cars center.

The $1 billion investment will be spread out over five years as Ford looks to commercialize its self-driving technology by 2021.

Google teams up with Kaggle to host $100,000 video classification challenge

Posted by Alireza Mokri in robotics/AI

Feb 17
2017

Google and Kaggle today announced a new machine learning challenge that asks developers to find the best way to automatically tag videos.

The challenge, which comes with a $30,000 prize for the first-place finisher (and $25,000, $20,000, $15,000 and $10,000 for the next four teams), asks developers to classify and tag videos from Google’s updated YouTube-8M V2 data set. This data set features a total of 7 million YouTube videos that add up to 450,000 hours of video. YouTube-8M already includes labels, too, and developers can use this as their training data. The challenge then is to tag 700,000 previously unseen videos.

Wide & Deep Learning: Memorization + Generalization with TensorFlow (TensorFlow Dev Summit 2017)

Posted by Alireza Mokri in robotics/AI

Feb 17
2017

Wide models are great for memorization, deep models are great for generalization — why not combine them to create even better models? In this talk, Heng-Tze Cheng explains Wide and Deep networks and gives examples of how they can be used.

Check out our blog post, paper, YouTube video, TensorFlow tutorials: https://goo.gl/MwVlVa

Visit the TensorFlow website for all session recordings: https://goo.gl/bsYmza