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Dec 3, 2020

Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?

A tool known as BERT can now beat humans on advanced reading-comprehension tests. But it’s also revealed how far AI has to go. The BERT neural network has led to a revolution in how machines understand human language. Credit: Jon Fox for Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2017, Sam Bowman, a computational linguist at New York University, figured that computers still weren’t very good at understanding the written word. Sure, they had…

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Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?
Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?

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Dec 2, 2020

The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times

It was heard in over 50 different locations around the globe. A lithograph of the massive 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. From The eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent phenomena, 1888; Parker & Coward; via Wikipedia. On 27 August 1883, the Earth let out a noise louder than any it has made since. It was 10:02 a.m. local time when the sound emerged…

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The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times
The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times

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Dec 1, 2020

Computer Scientists Achieve ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography

A cryptographic master tool called indistinguishability obfuscation has for years seemed too good to be true. Three researchers have figured out that it can work. In 2018, Aayush Jain, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, traveled to Japan to give a talk about a powerful cryptographic…

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Dec 1, 2020

Scientists Find Vital Genes Evolving in Genome’s Junkyard

Even genes essential for life can be caught in an evolutionary arms race that forces them to change or be replaced.

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Scientists Find Vital Genes Evolving in Genome’s Junkyard
Scientists Find Vital Genes Evolving in Genome’s Junkyard

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Dec 1, 2020

The Maid Who Mapped the Heavens

Williamina Fleming was just supposed to help the director of the Harvard Observatory with household tasks. Instead, she changed the course of astronomy. Photos courtesy of the Harvard University Archives. Williamina Paton Fleming had a choice. She could let the laughter die down and allow herself to be the butt of the joke, or she could stand up, turning the joke on its head and using the moment to her advantage.

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The Maid Who Mapped the Heavens
The Maid Who Mapped the Heavens

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Nov 20, 2020

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars.[9][10][11] …

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Nov 19, 2020

Moon’s 4G

NASA is launching a 4G mobile network on the moon. NASA has granted Nokia $14.1 million to build the first-ever 4G mobile network on the moon. Under its Artemis program, NASA plans to send astronauts and a “sustainable” human presence to the moon by 2028. Nokia’s 4G network will allow astronauts to carry out a number of activities including making…

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Moon’s 4G
Moon’s 4G

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