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Exploring Faster Screening with Fewer Tests via Bayesian Group Testing:

"Exploring Faster Screening with Fewer Tests via Bayesian Group Testing: Posted by Marco Cuturi and Jean-Philippe Vert, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team How does one find a needle in a haystack..." Testing a population of 16 where only one is positive would require 16 tests. However,...
Source: googleblog.com

Coronavirus COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 information

A collection of information sources for COVID-19. The NHS 111 online COVID-19 service. The first point of call for someone in the UK who thinks they have symptoms or have been exposed whilst travelling. The NHS Coronavirus COVID-19 information webpage. UK Government's Coronavirus action plan. Public...

Mayfly populations falling fast in North America

"Mayfly populations falling fast in North America: A team of researchers from the University of Oklahoma, Virginia Tech and the University of Notre Dame has found that populations of mayflies in parts of North America have fallen dramatically in recent years. In their paper published in the Proceedings...
Source: phys.org

A Distorted Sunrise Eclipse

A Distorted Sunrise Eclipse showing both a partial eclipse and the Etruscan vase effect from atmospheric distortion.
Source: nasa.gov

Yes you can learn surgery via YouTube

"Doctors are turning to YouTube to learn how to do surgical procedures, but there's no quality control: Tens of thousands of videos on YouTube show surgeries ranging from face-lifts to knee replacements. But the content isn't vetted or curated, and some doctors say it should be." The platform dominance...
Source: cnbc.com

Video for learning

Video for learning is great at some things, not so great at others. Great summary of recent evidence from Donald Clark. What can we learn from Netflix? (Use technology appropriately not just the buzzwords) Episodic vs. Semantic memory (Remembering the right things from video isn't as easy as you think)...
Source: blogspot.com

The origin and meaning of a

Waterfall Process: A waterfall software process breaks down a large effort into a sequence of activities, usually leaving risks too late.
Source: martinfowler.com

After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes.

After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes: The city will build the lanes as part of a $1.7 billion street safety plan to be adopted by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council.
Source: nytimes.com

Building SMILY, a Human-Centric, Similar-Image Search Tool for Pathology. Advances in machine learning (ML) have shown great

Building SMILY, a Human-Centric, Similar-Image Search Tool for Pathology. Advances in machine learning (ML) have shown great promise for assisting in the work of healthcare professionals, such as aiding the detection of diabetic eye disease and metastatic breast cancer. Though high-performing algorithms...
Source: googleblog.com

Robust Neural Machine Translation: In recent years, neural machine translation (NMT) using Transformer models has experienced

Robust Neural Machine Translation: In recent years, neural machine translation (NMT) using Transformer models has experienced tremendous success. Based on deep neural networks, NMT models are usually trained end-to-end on very large parallel corpora (input/output text pairs) in an entirely data-driven...
Source: googleblog.com

Joint Speech Recognition and Speaker Diarization via Sequence Transduction: Posted by Laurent El Shafey, Software Engineer

Joint Speech Recognition and Speaker Diarization via Sequence Transduction: Posted by Laurent El Shafey, Software Engineer and Izhak Shafran, Research Scientist, Google Health Being able to recognize “who said what”.
Source: googleblog.com

Robot car "Stanley" designed by Stanford Racing Team marked the start of the age of driverless cars and an AI milestone.

Robot car "Stanley" designed by Stanford Racing Team marked the start of the age of driverless cars and an AI milestone. "On October 9, 2005, Stanley and the Stanford Racing Team were awarded 2 million dollars for being the first team to complete the 132 mile DARPA Grand Challenge course in California's...
Source: stanford.edu

“In essence Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) is a simple idea: people have limited capacity for processing information; by

“In essence Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) is a simple idea: people have limited capacity for processing information; by designing learning experiences and materials in a way that respects those limitations, we can improve the process. “Though there is nothing fundamentally wrong with this idea,...
Source: aconventional.com

APOD: 2019 July 14 - Eagle Aurora over Norway

APOD: 2019 July 14 - Eagle Aurora over Norway
Source: nasa.gov

Busicom 141-PF and Intel 4004 - a fascinating story of innovation through ‘lead users’.

Busicom 141-PF and Intel 4004 - a fascinating story of innovation through ‘lead users’.
Source: vintagecalculators.com

Breakthrough that literally opens up online learning? Using AI for free text input: When teachers ask learners whether

Breakthrough that literally opens up online learning? Using AI for free text input: When teachers ask learners whether they know something they rarely ask them multiple choice questions. Yet the MCQ remains the staple in on...
Source: blogspot.com

Donald Clark Plan B: Research shows Good Behaviour Game is constructivist nonsense

Donald Clark Plan B: Research shows Good Behaviour Game is constructivist nonsense
Source: blogspot.com

Donald Clark Plan B: Agile production – online learning needs to get its skates on

Donald Clark Plan B: Agile production – online learning needs to get its skates on
Source: blogspot.com

3 Food Sensors to Track Every Bite and Gulp - IEEE Spectrum

3 Food Sensors to Track Every Bite and Gulp - IEEE Spectrum
Source: ieee.org

Experts Bet on First Deepfakes Political Scandal - IEEE Spectrum

Experts Bet on First Deepfakes Political Scandal - IEEE Spectrum
Source: ieee.org