DOCTORS HAVE REVERSED AN INHERITED DISORDER IN UTERO USING A BIOTECH DRUG
Doctors in Germany successfully treated twins in utero using a biotech drug, pointing to a new way to eliminate disease. Source: technologyreview.com
AN OPEN SOURCE IMPLEMENTATION OF DEEPVOICE 3: 2000-SPEAKER NEURAL TEXT-TO-SPEECH
This page provides audio samples for the open source implementation of DeepVoice3. Samples from single speaker and multi-speaker models follow. Source: github.io
WHY DATA SCIENTISTS SHOULD START LEARNING SWIFT
One week into my first year physics course at the University of Michigan, a professor assigned a problem set that required simulating some many-body system. It was due Friday. That was the week I learned my first programming language, Matlab. Source: fritz.ai
UNITED KINGDOM PLANS $1.3 BILLION ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PUSH
The U.K. government said Thursday that part of its multi-year AI investment–about £300 million, or more than $400 million–would come from U.K.-based corporations and investment firms and those located outside the country. Source: fortune.com
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A SELF-DRIVING CAR IS AT FAULT?
In the eyes of insurers, today’s self-driving vehicles are treated no differently than conventional cars when they’re involved in a collision, according to Maureen Brown of Munich Reinsurance America, a firm that insures a number of companies testing autonomous vehicles. And states that allow companies to test self-driving vehicles require them, as with human drivers, to have insurance. Every autonomous Uber vehicle, for example, is covered by commercial auto liability insurance that covers bodily injury (including death) and property damage.
Read moreOVER 90% OF FACEBOOK’S ADVERTISING REVENUE NOW COMES FROM MOBILE
If you need more proof that Facebook has successfully transformed itself into a mobile-first company, its first quarter 2018 earnings should do the trick. Facebook reported $11.97 billion in revenue and $4.98 billion in profit for the past quarter, with 91 percent of its advertising revenue coming from mobile. Source: venturebeat.com
KAZAKHSTAN IS CHANGING ITS ALPHABET FROM CYRILLIC TO LATIN-BASED
That the Kazakh language is currently written in Cyrillic – and the persistent use of Russian in elite circles – is a legacy of the Soviet Union’s rule, one that some of its neighbouring countries sought to shed right after the union’s collapse in 1991. Azerbaijan, for example, started introducing textbooks in Latin script the next year, while Turkmenistan followed suit in 1993. Kazakhstan is making the transition almost three decades on, in a different economic environment that makes the costs hard to predict.
Read moreNOTES ON STRUCTURED CONCURRENCY, OR: GO STATEMENT CONSIDERED HARMFUL
In this post, I want to convince you that nurseries aren’t quirky or idiosyncratic at all, but rather a new control flow primitive that’s just as fundamental as for loops or function calls. And furthermore, the other approaches we saw above – thread spawning and callback registration – should be removed entirely and replaced with nurseries. Source: vorpus.org
A “MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH” IN DIESEL TECHNOLOGY SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES EMISSIONS
Bosch has claimed that it has made a major breakthrough in diesel technology, which could put an end to the ‘death of diesel’ debate. The new technology promises to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions to ‘unprecedented’ levels in diesel cars. According to the technology firm, the technology will enable vehicle manufacturers to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) so drastically that they will comply with future limits, without the need for any additional technology.
Read moreAIMING TO FILL SKILL GAPS IN AI, MICROSOFT MAKES TRAINING COURSES AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC
The program is part of a larger corporate effort that also includes the enterprise developer-focused AI School, which provides online videos and other assets to help developers build AI skills. That program includes both general educational tools for developers looking to expand AI capabilities and specific guidance on how developers can use Microsoft’s tools and services.
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