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Jul 17, 2022
Scientists revealed for the first time the origin of neutrinos
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cosmology, particle physics
An international research team led by the University of Würzburg and the University of Geneva (UNIGE) is shedding light on one aspect of this mystery: neutrinos are thought to be born in blazars, galactic nuclei fed by supermassive black holes.
Sara Buson has always thought of it as a significant task. In 2017, the researcher and his associates introduced a blazar (TXS 0506+056) as a potential neutrino source for the first time. That study sparked a scientific debate about whether there truly is a connection between blazars and high-energy neutrinos.
After taking this initial, positive step, Prof. Buson’s team received funding from the European Research Council to launch an ambitious multi-messenger research project in June 2021. Analyzing numerous signals (or “messengers,” for example, neutrinos) from the Universe is required. The primary objective is to shed light on the origin of astrophysical neutrinos, potentially confirming blazars as the first highly certain source of high-energy extragalactic neutrinos.
Jul 17, 2022
Why Is NYC Preparing Its Citizens for a Nuclear Attack?
Posted by Raphael Ramos in category: existential risks
Has New York City gone too far with this public service announcement? The city’s office of Emergency Management released this ad, telling residents what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. The host tells people to take cover indoors immediately. If you’re outside when the strike occurs, residents are advised to shower, bag their clothes. Then, pay attention to local media for information and next steps. Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more.
Jul 17, 2022
Vertical farms could take over the world
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: energy, food, space, sustainability
Vertical farming saves water, land, and energy — and it could be how we grow food on Mars.
Jul 17, 2022
Biohacking the Oral Microbiome
Posted by Mike Lustgarten in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, health
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Jul 17, 2022
Chinese courts allow AI to overrule judges and draft new laws
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: law, robotics/AI
Judges must now consult the AI on every case by law, Beijing’s Supreme Court said in an update on the system published this week, and if they go against its recommendation they must submit a written explanation for why.
The AI has also been connected to police databases and China’s Orwellian social credit system, handing it the power to punish people — for example by automatically putting a thief’s property up for sale online.
Beijing has hailed the new technology for making ‘a significant contribution to the judicial advancement of human civilisation’ — while critics say it risks creating a world in which man is ruled by machine.
Jul 17, 2022
DeepMind’s Latest Study on Artificial Intelligence Explains How Neural Network Generalize and Rise in the Chomsky Hierarchy
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: information science, robotics/AI
A DeepMind research group conducted a comprehensive generalization study on neural network architectures in the paper ‘Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy’, which investigates whether insights from the theory of computation and the Chomsky hierarchy can predict the actual limitations of neural network generalization.
While we understand that developing powerful machine learning models requires an accurate generalization to out-of-distribution inputs. However, how and why neural networks can generalize on algorithmic sequence prediction tasks is unclear.
The research group performed a thorough generalization study on more than 2000 individual models spread across 16 tasks of cutting-edge neural network architectures and memory-augmented neural networks on a battery of sequence-prediction tasks encompassing all tiers of the Chomsky hierarchy that can be evaluated practically with finite-time computation.
Jul 17, 2022
Tetraquarks and pentaquarks: “Unnatural” forms of exotic matter have been found
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: particle physics
Scientists have found three new examples of a very exotic form of matter made of quarks. They can yield insights into the early Universe.
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Jul 17, 2022
Amazon Science at ICML 2022
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biological, robotics/AI, science
We’re proud to be a platinum sponsor of ICML, the annual conference on machine learning. Learn about Amazon’s presence at the conference, accepted publications,… See more.
The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning. The conference is globally renowned for presenting and publishing cutting-edge research on all aspects of machine learning used in closely related areas like artificial intelligence, statistics and data science, as well as important application areas such as machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, and robotics.
Jul 17, 2022
These are the 20 most common passwords leaked on the dark web — make sure none of them are yours
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: security
Mobile security firm Lookout has a new list of the 20 passwords most commonly found in leaked account information on the dark web. Some are surprisingly easy to guess.