GOOGLE’S TENSORFLOW AI FRAMEWORK ADDS SWIFT AND JAVASCRIPT SUPPORT
Google todayunveiled a slew of updates to its popular TensorFlow machine learning framework aimed at making it useful for a wider variety of developers and providing data scientists with new ways to get started building AI models. Source: venturebeat.com
FRENCH GOVERNMENT’S NEW AI STRATEGY GETS A BOOST FROM DEEPMIND, SAMSUNG, AND FUJITSU
The outlined proposals got a lift from a series of related corporate announcements, including plans by Google’s DeepMind and Samsung for new Paris labs andFujitsu’s expansion of its existing Paris research center. The news follows announcements from Google and Facebookearlier this year of increased investments in their Paris-based AI labs. Source: venturebeat.com
PROJECT CLARA: NVIDIA SUPERCOMPUTING PLATFORM REDEFINES MEDICAL IMAGING
NVIDIA’s Project Clara, a medical imaging supercomputer, renews the capabilities of these machines in place. Unveiled this week at the GPU Technology Conference, in Silicon Valley, Project Clara takes advantage of incredible advancements in computation. Source: nvidia.com
JENSEN HUANG ON THE UBER TRAGEDY AND WHY NVIDIA SUSPENDED TESTING
Autonomous cars need a lot more miles under their wheels than that, he indicated, to gain enough experience under variety of conditions so that their designers can fine tune—and then prove—their safety. The answer, Huang said, is doing the bulk of the testing in virtual reality. Source: ieee.org
INTRODUCING TENSORFLOW.JS: MACHINE LEARNING IN JAVASCRIPT
We’re excited to introduce TensorFlow.js, an open-source library you can use to define, train, and run machine learning models entirely in the browser, using Javascript and a high-level layers API. If you’re a Javascript developer who’s new to ML, TensorFlow.js is a great way to begin learning. Or, if you’re a ML developer who’s new to Javascript, read on to learn more about new opportunities for in-browser ML.
Read moreWILL THE WORLD EVER BE READY FOR SOLAR GEOENGINEERING?
The first time Frank Keutsch heard about solar geoengineering, he thought the idea was terrifying. To the Harvard University atmospheric chemist, schemes such as spraying millions of tons of sulfate particles into the sky to reflect the sun’s rays and cool the planet seemed perilous. Not only might the strategies disrupt the atmosphere in unexpected ways, but they might also dramatically alter the weather and harm the lives of Earth’s inhabitants.
Read moreNICOTINOMIDE RIBOSIDE EFFECTS ON AGING SIMILAR TO CALORIC RESTRICTION
Scientists have long known that restricting calories can fend off physiological signs of aging, with studies in fruit flies, roundworms, rodents and even people showing that chronically slashing intake by about a third can reap myriad health benefits and, in some cases, extend lifespan. Source: colorado.edu
LIDAR SYSTEM IMAGES BULLET IN FLIGHT
Lidar imaging has been around for almost as long as the technology it’s based on, the laser. But unlike its more famous cousin, radar, it was mostly used for research purposes. The reason scientists know so much about the density of aerosols in the upper atmosphere is largely due to the practice of shooting powerful lasers into the atmosphere and examining the return signal.
Read moreA STRUGGLING TOWN IS REVIVING ITSELF WITH… GEOCACHING
Unfamiliar passers-by may think it’s a joke. But to locals, this landmark goes by the name “Fork and Beans.” It has a logbook hidden inside its frame and it’s one of the more than 500 geocaches scattered around Wilberforce—the “Geocaching Capital of Canada,” as the town calls itself, and home of one of the most popular geocaching tours in the world. Source: vice.com
POOR GRADES TIED TO CLASS TIMES THAT DON’T MATCH OUR BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS
Researchers tracked the personal daily online activity profiles of nearly 15,000 college students as they logged into campus servers. After sorting the students into “night owls,” “daytime finches” and “morning larks” — based on their activities on days they were not in class — researchers compared their class times to their academic outcomes. Source: berkeley.edu