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Nov 16, 2019
Purified cannabidiol reduces seizures in patients with severe epilepsy
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Nov 16, 2019
Regular Crew Launches by SpaceX, Boeing Likely Won’t Start Until Summer 2020, NASA Inspector General Says
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
A new report from NASA’s Office of Inspector General finds that regular commercial crew flights by private companies SpaceX and Boeing likely won’t begin until summer 2020, despite NASA’s push for spring 2020 targets.
Nov 16, 2019
Polio Vaccine May Stall The End Of Polio
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health
CDC Sends Surge Staffers To Stop Vaccine-Derived Polio Outbreaks In Africa : Goats and Soda Health officials have long known that virus from the oral vaccine can contaminate water supplies; they underestimated how big a problem this would be.
Nov 16, 2019
A Family-Owned German Satellite Company Wants to Launch Rockets as Well
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, satellites
OHB, which started as a ship-maintenance business, doesn’t want to rely on the aerospace giants anymore.
Nov 16, 2019
Building An AI (Neural Networks | What Is Deep Learning | Deep Learning Basics)
Posted by Ankur Bargotra in category: robotics/AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKN_Cc-GyCY
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In the last video in this series, we discussed the biologically inspired structure of deep leaning neural networks and built up an abstracted model based on that. We then went through the basics of how this model is able to form representations from input data.
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Nov 16, 2019
Why Mercedes’s Self-Driving Trucks Are Set to Overtake Its Robotaxis
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Safety and cost concerns have led Mercedes-maker Daimler to predict revenues from autonomous trucks before self-driving cars become a thing.
Nov 16, 2019
From ‘Jeopardy’ to poker to reading comprehension, robots have managed to beat humans in all of these contests in the past decade
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI
Kind of a recap of the big highlights of AI in the 2010’s.
Thanks to leaps and bounds in the field of artificial intelligence in the past decade, robots are increasingly beating humans at our own games.
Nov 16, 2019
‘Transhumanist’ eternal life? No thanks, I’d rather learn not to fear death
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, transhumanism
While the transhumanism movement is making progress, it isn’t without its skeptics. Some don’t think it will ever work the way we want it to, because it asks science to turn back a natural process of aging that has an uncountable number of manifestations. Critics of anti-aging research envision any number of dystopian futures, in which we defeat many of the causes of death before very old age, leaving only the most ghastly and intractable — but not directly lethal — maladies.
Lest you think this concept is limited to snake-oil salesmen and science-fiction writers, the idea that aging is not inevitable is now in the mainstream of modern medical research at major institutions around the world. The journal Nature dubbed research from the University of California at Los Angeles a “hint that the body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed.” According to reporting by Scientific American on research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies: “Aging Is Reversible — at Least in Human Cells and Live Mice.”
