COFFEE SOLD IN CALIFORNIA MUST CARRY CANCER WARNING, JUDGE RULES
The judge in Los Angeles said Starbucks and about 90 other coffee sellers had failed to warn customers about a potentially toxic compound that is produced during the roasting process. Source: co.uk
WATCH A HUMAN MIND-CONTROL A CYBORG MOUSE
Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology created steerable cyborg mice, and holy hell is this experiment giving me the creeps. Source: vice.com
DRAFT, GITKUBE, HELM, KSONNET, METAPARTICLE, SKAFFOLD – COMPARISON OF K8S TOOLS
Kubernetes is super popular nowadays and people are looking for more ways and workflows to deploy applications to a Kubernetes cluster. kubectl itself has become like a low-level tool, with people looking for even easier workflows. Draft, Gitkube, Helm, Ksonnet, Metaparticle and Skaffold are some of the tools around that help developers build and deploy their apps on Kubernetes.
Read moreINTERPRETABLE MACHINE LEARNING: A GUIDE FOR MAKING BLACK BOX MODELS EXPLAINABLE
Machine learning algorithms usually operate as black boxes and it is unclear how they derived a certain decision. This book is a guide for practitioners on how to make machine learning decisions more interpretable. Source: github.io
UNIVERSAL SENTENCE ENCODER BY RAY KURZWEIL’S TEAM AT GOOGLE
We present models for encoding sentences into embedding vectors that specifically target transfer learning to other NLP tasks. The models are efficient and result in accurate performance on diverse transfer tasks. Two variants of the encoding models allow for trade-offs between accuracy and compute resources. For both variants, we investigate and report the relationship between model complexity, resource consumption, the availability of transfer task training data, and task performance. Comparisons are made with baselines that use word level transfer learning via pretrained word embeddings as well as baselines do not use any transfer learning. We find that transfer learning using sentence embeddings tends to outperform word level transfer.
Read moreMAGIC LEAP SHIPS FIRST SET OF DEVICES UNDER TIGHT SECURITY CONSTRAINTS
Magic Leap Inc.has quietly begun sendingits mysterious augmented reality headsets into the wild. A small group of software developers recently received devices at their offices, according to people familiar with the matter. But access to the gadget comes with an unusual caveat: They must commit to keeping them in locked safes. Source: bloomberg.com
TESLA LOOKED LIKE THE FUTURE. NOW SOME ASK IF IT HAS ONE
Tesla shares dropped 8 percent on Tuesday and another 8 percent Wednesday, and though they regained ground Thursday, they have lost almost a quarter of their value in less than three weeks. Source: nytimes.com
RESEARCHERS “HEAL” DESTRUCTIVE DENDRITE GROWTH IN LITHIUM-METAL BATTERIES
Dendrites—branching structures that look like tree limbs—are fun to draw and good on neurons, but they’re generally best avoided in lithium-ion batteries. As ions are exchanged between the anode and cathode over several charge and discharge cycles, lithium electrodes will sometimes grow dendrites that can expand through the electrolyte that separates the anode and cathode. These dendrites can reduce the battery’s capacity, shorten the life of the battery, or even start fires as the dendrites heat up.
Read more13,000-YEAR-OLD HUMAN FOOTPRINTS DISCOVERED IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
Thirteen thousand years ago, a small group of people walked on a beach on one of the thousands of low islands off the coast of British Columbia. These walkers were some of the first humans to settle here. Source: arstechnica.com
THIS SPACECRAFT WILL GET CLOSER TO THE SUN THAN ANY BEFORE IT—WITHOUT MELTING
This summer, NASA will launch the Parker Solar Probe, an impressively heat-resistant spacecraft destined to glide closer to the surface of the Sun than any spacecraft before it. It will fly within about 6 million kilometers of the searing surface, more than seven times closer than earlier craft. If all goes to plan, the craft will be hurtling at 724,205km per hour and have its one-of-a-kind heat shield perfectly facing the surface as it makes those closest approaches.
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