Russian cosmonaut says that swabs of the outside of the ISS contain “deep space bacteria.”
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Russian cosmonaut says that swabs of the outside of the ISS contain “deep space bacteria.”
It makes a certain inevitable sense that two of our topics: AI, and IQ tests, would collide. Do we have anything left but an epistemological trainwreck?
Artificial intelligence programmers are getting good results with self-training neural networks. That’s something I originally thought [stderr] wasn’t going to work, but I revised my opinion when Dota2 champion Dendi got beaten by a neural net that trained to play against a copy of itself. [stderr] [Read more…]
Eventually I will stop making fun of the “tactical” gear mindset. But for now, since I’m stuck in an airport, I’m going to continue to trawl through the justifications in hope of understanding.
My posting about the paradox of “self defense” triggered much more response than I expected. [stderr]
In computer security transitive trust is when system A trusts B, and system B trusts C – in that case system A trusts C but doesn’t usually realize it.
Why do steel sparks do this thing: they fly straight and seem to explode at the end of their trajectory. [Read more…]
This is part of a short series that I will try to drop over the course of the year. I grew up reading National Geographic and it wasn’t until I was well into my adulthood that I discovered that I had been absorbing subtle doses of propaganda along with the cool stuff that excited and inspired me. While you’re reading about this one, you may be thinking “What about PROJECT JENNIFER?!” and, if you are, don’t worry – I’ll get to that one eventually, too.
There’s a small bit of kerfuffle around the new iPhone facial recognition feature.
New databases are being assembled for ‘tone’ surveillance. What’s that? It’s not Miss Manners.