As computer science professorErnest Davis observes, “There is a substantial component of monkeys typing Hamlet going on here. AlphaCode has succeeded in training the monkeys to a remarkable degree, but still they need a lot of them. It then produces 10 candidates, and considers it a success i...
Edsger Dijkstra, one of the most influential figures in Computer Science and the most famous Computer Scientist to never own a computer, had very strong opinions on Computer Science education. He expressed his feelings in an essay titled “The Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science.” You ca...
where a supercomputer is tasked with uncovering “the answer.” Allegedly designed to give the answer to the ultimate question about life, the Universe, and everything, the computer spends 7.5 million years calculating what the answer would be, and...
but was always very sweet and gentle. She had a good life with us and a calm painless end. Logic suggests that I should be happy that she is no longer suffering and happy for the time she was with us. And I am. Yet here I am at work sitting in front of the computer monitor wit...
And before that, she worked at Google, for 13 years. She was the 20themployee at Google, and their first female engineer; she joined right after getting her master’s degree from Stanford in computer science. MAYER: I was very attached to a search engine called Infoseek. I just felt like...
"For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate observer, it's an immense pleasure to take up residence in multiplicity, in whatever is seething, moving, evanescent and infinite: you're not at home, but you feel at home everywhere, you're at the centre o
brain disease episode. I came to understand that under these circumstances I was using thiamine as a drug and that it was not a matter of simple vitamin replacement. It was an early example of epigenetics, the relatively new science concerning the way nutrition and lifestyle affect our genes....
Reddit LinkedIn Email Print Pinterest Tumblr Conquering the Middle: The Secret to Writing a Compelling Story Writers often face a daunting challenge when crafting a captivating narrative: navigating the middle of the story. After the initial excitement of introducing characters and setting the stage, ...
【(02:53) Just a few days after Google, Nvidia throws their hat in the ring, announcing their AI video generator, which also looks pretty decent. Meanwhile, two computer scientists managed to fool a bunch of Redditors into giving them money. They used style diffusion to generate fake image...
1: The conversion rate of research results for a university in Guangxi which has got a research funding of 131 million yuan is 0%. In fact, most teachers in universities do not know what research is, especially those in vocational colleges and humanities. It is already good for them to ...