MICHELANGELO PYML: INTRODUCING UBER’S PLATFORM FOR RAPID PYTHON ML MODEL DEVELOPMENT
As a company heavily invested in AI, Uber aims to leverage machine learning (ML) in product development and the day-to-day management of our business. In pursuit of this goal, our data scientists spend considerable amounts of time prototyping and validating powerful new types of ML models to solve Uber’s most challenging problems (e.g., NLP based smart reply systems, ticket assistance systems, fraud detection, and financial and marketplace forecasting). Once a model type is empirically validated to be best for the task, engineers work closely with data science teams to productionize and make it available for low latency serving at Uber-scale.
Read moreELON MUSK SAYS WE MAY LIVE IN A SIMULATION. HERE’S HOW WE MIGHT TELL IF HE’S RIGHT
Is the world around us real — or are we living in a simulation, like characters trapped inside some space alien’s video game? That sounds like a question you might hear at a midnight screening of ‘The Matrix,’ but lately it’s become the subject of serious academic debate. High-profile proponents of what’s known as the “simulation hypothesis” include SpaceX chief Elon Musk, who recently expounded on the idea during an interview for a popular podcast.
Read moreLOCKHEED MARTIN PROPOSES A MEGA-LUNAR LANDER: 62 TONS AND AN ELEVATOR
With the Trump administration setting lunar exploration as the principal human spaceflight goal in the near-term, NASA has begun devising a plan for how best to meet that goal. As part of this development process, companies have begun pitching ideas to the space agency’s human exploration program about how they could help (and why they should be funded). Some companies have talked with NASA privately about their proposed spaceflight hardware, while others have been more publicly forthcoming.
Read moreYOU THOUGHT QUANTUM MECHANICS WAS WEIRD: CHECK OUT ENTANGLED TIME
In the summer of 1935, the physicists Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger engaged in a rich, multifaceted and sometimes fretful correspondence about the implications of the new theory of quantum mechanics. The focus of their worry was what Schrödinger later dubbed entanglement: the inability to describe two quantum systems or particles independently, after they have interacted. Until his death, Einstein remained convinced that entanglement showed how quantum mechanics was incomplete.
Read moreCERVICAL CANCER SET TO BE ELIMINATED FROM AUSTRALIA IN GLOBAL FIRST
Cervical cancer is set to become a rare disease in Australia within just two years and rendered so uncommon by 2028 it will be deemed eliminated as a public health problem for the first time anywhere in the world. The new forecast has been detailed in research in the Lancet Public Health Journal, which found that although global deaths from the disease still exceed 310,000 each year, Australia is heading towards a scenario where cervical cancer would be almost unheard of. The positive prediction has been largely credited to the introduction a decade ago of the world-leading national human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program for schoolchildren, but key changes began in 1991 with the beginning of the country’s pap smear program.
Read moreCALIFORNIA LAW BANS BOTS FROM PRETENDING TO BE HUMAN
Are you talking to a real person online or a bot? In California, bots will need to identify themselves thanks to a new bill just signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. The measure bans automated accounts from pretending to be real people in order to ‘incentivize a purchase or sale of goods or services in a commercial transaction or to influence a vote in an election,’ effective July 1, 2019.
Read moreTHERE WERE 1 BILLION MONARCH BUTTERFLIES. NOW THERE ARE 93 MILLION.
There Were 1 Billion Monarch Butterflies. Now There Are 93 Million. Without pollinators, there is no agriculture—and without that, there is no food. The CPPC is serious business. Between the destruction of monarch habitats through pesticides, most notably milkweed, and the ongoing mystery of colony collapse among the bees, American agriculture is endangered. At Tuesday night’s event, it was made plain that without agriculture, there is no food, and with pollinators, there is no agriculture.
Read moreSTRANGE PARTICLES COMING OUT OF THE EARTH HINT AT NEW PHYSICS
Something mysterious coming out of Antartica’sfrozen ground and it could potentially break physics as we know it. According to physicists, it is some sort ofcosmic ray, a high-energy particle that’s blasted its way through space, into the Earth, and back out again. But the particles physicists know about — the collection of particles that make up what scientists call the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics — shouldn’t be able to do that.
Read moreDEEPMIND’S NEW RESEARCH ON LINKING MEMORIES, AND HOW IT APPLIES TO AI
There’s a cognitive quirk humans have that seems deceptively elementary. For example: every morning, you see a man in his 30s walking a boisterous collie. Then one day, a white-haired lady with striking resemblance comes down the street with the same dog. Subconsciously we immediately make a series of deductions: the man and woman might be from the same household. The lady may be the man’s mother, or some other close relative. Perhaps she’s taking over his role because he’s sick, or busy.
Read moreCERN SCIENTISTS SAY THE LHC HAS CONFIRMED TWO NEW PARTICLES, AND POSSIBLY DISCOVERED A THIRD
The Large Hadron Collider is at it again, showing us new wonders in the world of particle physics. Scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration have observed two new particles that have never been seen before – and seen evidence of a third. The two new particles, predicted by the standard quark model, are baryons – the same family of particles as the protons used in LHC particle acceleration experiments.
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