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Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos

Half a century ago, the pioneers of chaos theory discovered that the “butterfly effect” makes long-term prediction impossible. Even the smallest perturbation to a complex system (like the weather, the economy or just about anything else) can touch off a concatenation of events that leads to a dramatically divergent future. Unable to pin down the state of these systems precisely enough to predict how they’ll play out, we live under a veil of uncertainty.

Why Nuclear Clocks Will Be the Most Accurate Clocks on Earth

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source

ZTE exports ban may mean no Google apps, a death sentence for its smartphones

Autonomous Boats Will Be On the Market Sooner Than Self-Driving Cars

The Army Wants to Use a Theoretical Particle To Make an Unhackable Quantum Computer

FDA clears first contact lens with light-adaptive technology

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today cleared the first contact lens to incorporate an additive that automatically darkens the lens when exposed to bright light. The Acuvue Oasys Contact Lenses with Transitions Light Intelligent Technology are soft contact lenses indicated for daily use to correct the vision of people with non-diseased eyes who are nearsighted (myopia) or farsighted (hyperopia). They can be used by people with certain degrees of astigmatism, an abnormal curvature of the eye.

China’s Strategic Ambiguity and Shifting Approach to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems

A step-by-step guide to the “World Models” AI paper

Teaching a machine to master car racing and fireball avoidance through “World Models”.

Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician

It is unusual, but not unheard of, for an amateur mathematician to make significant progress on a long-standing open problem. In the 1970s, Marjorie Rice, a homemaker with no mathematical background, ran across a Scientific American column about pentagons that tile the plane. She eventually added four new pentagons to the list.