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The most mysterious technological object on the planet should have been destroyed at least three times. First, the device made it through a violent shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea. Then, it sat submerged in salt water on a sandy cliff 200 feet below...

Building machines that learn and think like people Lake et al., arXiv 2016 Pro-tip: if you’re going to try and read and write up a paper every weekday, it’s best not to pick papers that run to over 50 pages. When the paper is as interesting as “Building...

Building shadows as proxies for construction rates in Shanghai. Photos courtesy of Orbital Insight/Digital Globe. It’s no small feat to commercialize new technologies that arise from scientific and academic research. The useful is a small subset of...

Submitted by Larks • 30 votes • 2 comments Introduction I've long been concerned about AI Risk. Now that there are a few charities working on the problem, it seems desirable to compare them, to determine where scarce donations should be sent. This...

We are witnessing the resurgence of analytics as a key differentiator for creating new services, the emergence of cloud computing as a disrupting technology for service delivery, and the growth of crowdsourcing as a new phenomenon in which people play...