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Dec 9, 2018
Celebrating the Holidays With a Song Written and Sung by an AI
Posted by B.J. Murphy in category: robotics/AI
It’s finally the last month of the year and you know what that means: the holiday flood known as Christmas. Celebrated by many, it’s a time of the year where presents are exchanged and songs are sung. Only, this year, one of those songs won’t be sung (let alone written) by a human being. Nope, this time an artificial intelligence is giving it a go!
In the spirit of Christmas, listen to the carolling tune of an artificial intelligence as it attempts to capture the very essence of what makes this holiday so beloved.
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Dec 9, 2018
Telescope Upgrade Will Create the Most Detailed Map of the Universe Ever
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Dec 9, 2018
The Key to Understanding AI May be Buried in the Laws of Physics
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: mathematics, physics, robotics/AI, space
Deep learning has been making it possible for powerful machines to approximate and imitate abilities and techniques once thought to be uniquely human. Mathematicians have struggled to explain how they work so well and may now get some answers by looking outside mathematics and into the nature of the universe.
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Dec 9, 2018
Scientists Reprogrammed Human Skin Cells Into Immune Cells To Fight Cancer
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Dec 9, 2018
Topological-physics pioneer Shoucheng Zhang dies
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: physics
Dec 9, 2018
Scientists May Have Halted Blindness Caused by This Rare Genetic Disease
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience
D esigner therapies are treatments tailored to a specific disease, and nowhere is the need greater for new therapies than in a group of nervous system disorders, known as “neurodegenerative diseases.”
Many of these diseases are common and well-known, such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. However, some are very rare, genetic disorders that are the consequence of a defective gene. In all these diseases, a mutant protein that misfolds causes the degeneration and death of neurons. One effective therapeutic strategy is to prevent the rogue protein from ever being made.
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) is one such disease in which nerves in different parts of the brain, including the eye, degenerate, which leads to blindness and difficulty walking, speaking, and balancing. SCA7 is dominantly inherited — which means that you just need one bad copy of the mutation to cause disease. The disease occurs when a short section of DNA that encodes ataxin-7 gene is erroneously repeated — like a word in a book printed two or three times. In this case, three chemical units of the DNA sequence — C-A-G — are repeated over and over.
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Dec 9, 2018
Astrophotography: How to Photograph the Stars
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Before we get started, it’s essential to understand that astrophotography takes time and practice in order to achieve good results, so don’t get frustrated if you don’t nail it on the first go.
When it comes to photographing the night sky there isn’t an exact setting which is going to achieve the same results across the board. This is due to the amount atmospheric light which is available in your area. So in order to help get you started, I’ve decided to write a guide on “how to photograph the stars.”
The aim is to shed some light on the type of equipment you will need and give you a general starting point for where your settings ‘should’ be so that you can head out into the night and have some fun with it.
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