When he was diagnosed, Hawking had not even finished his doctorate in physics. He was given two years to live. However, with the help of technology from the self-proclaimed “rocket scientist” Walt Waltosz, who personally wrote the software that allowed him to get his life back, Hawking w...
First there wasStephen Hawking, thenElon Musk, and most recentlyBill Gates. All of these smart people have suggested that artificial intelligence is something to be watched carefully. When Tesla CEO, Elon Musk was asked about artificial intelligence, he said it was like “summoning a demon” who...
So, digging more deeply into this, a few years ago I began working on helping computers to generate human-like stories from sequences of images. So, one day, I was working with my computer to ask it what it thought about a trip to Australia. It took a look at the pictures, and it...
almost most of them, are more likely to text their friends than they are to talk to them face to face. There’s this great piece in The Atlantic. It was written by a high school teacher named Paul Barnwell. And he gave his kids a communication ...
The first article in this field was published in 1998 in the field of energy efficiency in passenger transportation [7] and it was focusing on the proportion of different transportation method. The number of published papers increased in the last eight years; this shows the importance of this ...
his dad was in the C.I.A., his old guys rule cycler's breakfast routine, Chinese billiards, his kids used to get weirded out watching him on stage and now they want artist passes, when bands play so long they have porta potties on stage, if we're all here doing drugs then whos ...
So how does Lenke see Siri and its general-purpose virtual assistant brethren developing? "I think the jury is out on what will happen with them, because obviously they sparked a lot of interest, and this will never go away--it was a great help for the field, and there are many...
It was giving me more trouble than it was worth, so I decided to move the site, and all of its contents, to Jekyll. This has the advantage of being able to write directly in Vim, with the only minor disadvantage of having to build the site. Some formatting will need to be fixed ...
Einstein's childhood was a normal one, except that to his family's irritation, he learnt to speak at a late age. ... Einstein, being an average student, finished
Alexis’ father, Ian Martin, said he first realized Alexis was special when she was 12 months old. She could recite (背诵) bedtime stories. “We’d be driving around in the car and she would recite her bedtime stories from the night before. She didn’t just recite them, and she recite...