Graduate Summer School: Deep Learning, Feature Learning “Deep Learning, Self-Taught Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning (Part 1 Slides1-68; Part 2 Slides 69-109)” Recent Developments in Deep Learning by Geoff Hinton Geoff Hinton presents as part of the UBC Department of Computer Science’s Distinguished Lecture Series, May 30, 2013. Professor Hinton was awarded the 2011 Herzberg …
A genetically engineered pig heart which was transplanted into a baboon has survived more than a year without being rejected, leading scientists to hope that animal parts could one day provide a limitless sources of organs. The hearts of genetically modified pigs could be transplanted into humans to solve the shortage of organ donors, scientists …
HP’s Discover event in Barcelona this week has focused heavily on its “new style of IT” mantra, which focuses on cloud computing, integrated data center offerings, and commercial PCs that try to bring the cool factor. But HP CEO Meg Whitman’s keynote Tuesday at the event offered a brief preview of where HP’s next “new …
Engineers and safety specialists from NASA and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) met in late October to review the safety of the Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket being developed to launch humans into low-Earth orbit later this decade. SpaceX is one of NASA’s commercial partners working to develop a new generation of U.S. spacecraft and …
Call of Duty Ghosts has sold over $1 billion on its opening day. In September, 2013, Grand Theft Auto 5 had a opening day of $800 million in worldwide video game sales. The record in 2012 was $500 million Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, and beaten in a single day the $500m in …
Carbon is an amazing material: it not only forms the chemical basis for all known life but also, because of its rich physics and chemistry, displays an array of structures: from the age-old graphite and diamond to more recent C60 fullerene, 1D nanotube, and 2D graphene. One of the unsolved issues in carbon science has …
Interpersonal and intergroup violence rates vs. local temperature (H/T Chris Phoenix) If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. …
A couple of years ago I dropped cable and satellite TV and just watch Netflix and Hulu over my internet connection via a Nintendo Wii (Playstation and Xbox or more advanced DVD/Blu Ray players or Roku type devices work as well. However, I also want to watch the London Olympics which start in 8 days …
1. Dan Yurman at Idaho Samizdat posts an update on Jordan’s nuclear program. An asset swap of uranium for reactors seems likely. The Jordanian Atomic Energy Agency has entered into negotiations with Areva and Rosatom to build 2 Gwe of nuclear powered electricity by 2020. Both firms are offering 1,000 MW reactors. The Kingdom is …
VR-zone – The most recent expectations from last year’s supercomputing events, of 100 petaflops in 2015 and 1 exaflop in 2018, seems to be too pessimistic, after all. What’s enabling the sudden push? Improvements in processors from Intel, AMD and Nvidia indicate that a 1U or blade HPC server will have 7 TeraFLOPs of peak …