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Apr 8, 2021
Glass molded like plastic could usher in new era of complex glass shapes
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: materials
Apr 8, 2021
CPU algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU trainers
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: information science, robotics/AI, transportation
Rice University computer scientists have demonstrated artificial intelligence (AI) software that runs on commodity processors and trains deep neural networks 15 times faster than platforms based on graphics processors.
“The cost of training is the actual bottleneck in AI,” said Anshumali Shrivastava, an assistant professor of computer science at Rice’s Brown School of Engineering. “Companies are spending millions of dollars a week just to train and fine-tune their AI workloads.”
Shrivastava and collaborators from Rice and Intel will present research that addresses that bottleneck April 8 at the machine learning systems conference MLSys.
Apr 8, 2021
Watch artificial intelligence grow a walking caterpillar in Minecraft
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: robotics/AI
Automated matchmakers do what no human can.
Apr 8, 2021
A Blood Test For Depression and Bipolar Disorder
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Summary: A new blood test can distinguish the severity of a person’s depression and their risk for developing severe depression at a later point. The test can also determine if a person is at risk for developing bipolar disorder. Researchers say the blood test can also assist in tailoring individual options for therapeutic interventions.
Source: Indiana University.
Worldwide, 1 in 4 people will suffer from a depressive episode in their lifetime.
Apr 8, 2021
Forget Boston Dynamics. This robot taught itself to walk
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Slick, viral videos from Boston Dynamics are impressive but teaching a robot to walk by itself is a lot harder.
Apr 8, 2021
Lawrence Livermore Researchers Testing Out Nuclear Blast Defense Against Earth-Threatening Asteroids
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
LIVERMORE (CBS SF) — It sounds like a scene from a Hollywood sci-fi thriller, but researchers from Lawrence Livermore National lab have joined with an Air Force team of technologists to test if a nuclear blast could be used to deflect an earth-threatening asteroid.
Whether it be Bruce Willis and his crew of oil drillers taking on an asteroid as it approaches earth in ‘Armageddon’ or Tia Leoni and her father awaiting a massive tidal wave from an asteroid strike in ‘Deep Impact,’ Hollywood has been fascinated by the threat from space.
Circa 2009
(PhysOrg.com) — Scientists have managed to levitate young mice in research carried out for NASA. Levitated mice may help research on bone density loss during long exposures to low gravity, such as in space travel and missions to other planets.
The researchers worked from a number of laboratories around the U.S., including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and the University of Missouri. The research was done on behalf of NASA, and was published in the online journal Advances in Space Research on 6 September 2009.
Apr 8, 2021
Syroco vs SP80: The race to create the world’s fastest sail boat
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
However, two rival teams, one in France and one in Switzerland, are now striving relentlessly towards the same goal: to create the fastest sailboat ever built.
One is headed by the former world title holder, and there are two brothers involved — but on opposing teams.
Paul Larsen is a sailing speed freak. His Vestas Sailrocket 2 boat broke the world speed sailing record for a mile in 2012: 78.26 mph! What’s he up to now?
Apr 8, 2021
DARPA Prepares for the Subterranean Challenge Final
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: nuclear energy, robotics/AI
Three years of underground robotics competitions culminate in a final event in September with $5 million in prize money.
The DARPA Subterranean Challenge Final Event is scheduled to take place at the Louisville Mega Cavern in Louisville, Kentucky, from September 21 to 23. We’ve followed SubT teams as they’ve explored their way through abandoned mines, unfinished nuclear reactors, and a variety of caves, and now everything comes together in one final course where the winner of the Systems Track will take home the $2 million first prize.
It’s a fitting reward for teams that have been solving some of the hardest problems in robotics, but winning isn’t going to be easy, and we’ll talk with SubT Program Manager Tim Chung about what we have to look forward to.
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