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Humans produce new brain cells throughout their lives, say researchers

Berkeley offers its fastest-growing course – data science – online for free

Redesigning the Scientific Paper

The scientific paper—the actual form of it—was one of the enabling inventions of modernity. Before it was developed in the 1600s, results were communicated privately in letters, ephemerally in lectures, or all at once in books. There was no public forum for incremental advances.

Urban Darwinism: How Species Are Evolving to Survive in Cities

Computer system transcribes words users “speak silently”

MIT researchers have developed a computer interface that can transcribe words that the user verbalizes internally but does not actually speak aloud.

What is good science?

Demanding that a theory is falsifiable or observable, without any subtlety, will hold science back. We need madcap ideas.

AI Experts Threaten to Boycott a University Over Reports of Killer Robot Research

Now, you can deploy to Kubernetes Engine from GitLab with a few clicks

Scaling Uber’s Hadoop Distributed File System for Growth

Uber’s Data Infrastructure team overhauled our approach to scaling our storage infrastructure by incorporating several new features and functionalities, including ViewFs, NameNode garbage collection tuning, and an HDFS load management service.

Retro Contest

We’re launching a transfer learning contest that measures a reinforcement learning algorithm’s ability to generalize from previous experience. In typical RL research, algorithms are tested in the same environment where they were trained, which favors algorithms which are good at memorization and have many hyperparameters. Instead, our contest tests an