NASA’S ORION SPACECRAFT GETTING CLOSER TO FINALLY FLYING AGAIN
It has been a long three-and-a-half years since the Orion spacecraft first launched into space in December 2014, making a successful shake-out flight. But now, NASA’s program aimed at building a large, deep-space capsule capable of sending astronauts to and from lunar orbit is finally ramping back up toward a series of test flights. In less than a year, a boilerplate model of the Orion spacecraft will be jettisoned from its rocket at 55 seconds after liftoff, to test the vehicle’s launch abort system.
Read moreINTRODUCING CLOUDEVENTS 0.1 – AN OPEN EFFORT BY GOOGLE, MICROSOFT, IBM AND MORE
What’s most frustrating is event-driven design and serverless technologies enable developers to reach unprecedented levels of productivity, yet our tooling isn’t designed to help us manage this new level of output. We can each provision a thousand AWS Lambda functions right now, which will scale massively and cost nothing until they’re executed. This is incredible power, but I don’t believe we are ready to reason about this new level of output.
Read moreDELIVERY ROBOTS WILL RELY ON HUMAN KINDNESS AND LABOR
In April, Starship Technologies announced that it is going to launch “robot delivery services for campuses.” Its goal is to deploy at least 1,000 delivery robots to “corporate and academic campuses in Europe and the U.S.” within the next year. It’s the latest in a long list of automated delivery schemes from a tech companies big and small. This is another version of civic disruption, only this time instead of deploying devices into the broader Commons, deployment is aimed at both public and private bounded Commons, which I call the micro-Commons.
Read moreGOOGLE DUPLEX: AN AI SYSTEM FOR ACCOMPLISHING REAL WORLD TASKS OVER THE PHONE
At the core of Duplex is a recurrent neural network (RNN) designed to cope with these challenges, built using TensorFlow Extended (TFX). To obtain its high precision, we trained Duplex’s RNN on a corpus of anonymized phone conversation data. The network uses the output of Google’s automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology, as well as features from the audio, the history of the conversation, the parameters of the conversation (e.g. the desired service for an appointment, or the current time of day) and more.
Read moreGOOGLE: DEEP LEARNING FOR ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS
When patients get admitted to a hospital, they have many questions about what will happen next. When will I be able to go home? Will I get better? Will I have to come back to the hospital? Having precise answers to those questions helps doctors and nurses make care better, safer, and faster — if a patient’s health is deteriorating, doctors could be sent proactively to act before things get worse.
Read moreFACEBOOK’S FIELD GUIDE TO MACHINE LEARNING VIDEO SERIES
The Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning is a six-part video series developed by the Facebook ads machine learning team. The series shares best real-world practices and provides practical tips about how to apply machine-learning capabilities to real-world problems. Machine learning and artificial intelligence are in the headlines everywhere today, and there are many resources to teach you about how the algorithms work and demonstrations of the latest cutting-edge research.
Read moreREPORT: SOFTWARE BUG LED TO DEATH IN UBER’S SELF-DRIVING CRASH
The fatal crash that killed pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona, in March occurred because of a software bug in Uber’s self-driving car technology, The Information’s Amir Efrati reported on Monday. According to two anonymous sources who talked to Efrati, Uber’s sensors did, in fact, detect Herzberg as she crossed the street with her bicycle. Unfortunately, the software classified her as a ‘false positive’ and decided it didn’t need to stop for her.
Read more51 EXAMPLES OF GROWTH HACKING STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES
These days its not enough for a new company to turn a tidy profit and reinvest it in long term growth. For todays startup businesses growth is the only metric of success and companies are looking for ever more ingenious ways of bringing new users onboard with their products or services… growth hacking strategies. Source: johnmcelborough.com
THE MATERIAL SCIENCE OF BUILDING A LIGHT SAIL TO TAKE US TO ALPHA CENTAURI
It has been about two years since Yuri Milner announced his most audacious piece of science-focused philanthropy: Breakthrough Starshot, an attempt to send hardware to Alpha Centauri by mid-century. Although the technology involved is a reasonable extrapolation of things we already know how to make, being able to create materials and technology that create that extrapolation is a serious challenge. So much of Breakthrough Starshot’s early funding has gone to figuring out what improvements on current technology are needed.
Read moreCUTTING EDGE DEEP LEARNING FOR CODERS, PART 2
Welcome to the new 2018 edition of fast.ai’s second 7 week course, Cutting Edge Deep Learning For Coders, Part 2, where you’ll learn the latest developments in deep learning, how to read and implement new academic papers, and how to solve challenging end-to-end problems such as natural language translation. You’ll develop a deep understanding of neural network foundations, the most important recent advances in the fields, and how to implement them in the world’s fastest deep learning libraries, fastai and pytorch.
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