How can a “lumbering dinosaur” made up of millions, billions, or trillions of cells compete against the evolutionary pressure put on them by these fast-adapting microbes? Fortunately, there’s a critical mechanism that modern plants and animals have for competing with their rapidly-reproducing si...
Modern neural networks can be huge, with millions, billions or even trillions of individual settings that are calibrated and recalibrated by reference to each piece of training data.A machine learning system has no wider "knowledge" or frame of reference beyond the model created from the training...
Mitch, like his republican ilk, believe in funding the major budget destabilizer since “sept 11”, which is aggressive war, whereby contractors have made untold, countless billions (trillions), and american boys and girls have paid for it in blood and human tissue. This pales in comparison t...
“The Trump ‘economic miracle’ was inheriting an economy that was already booming and then immediately adding trillions more in deficit-hiking stimulus to maintain that growth for 3 more years before the pandemic. Sorry for not being wow’ed,”–Brian Riedl, economist at the Manhattan Institute...
There are billions if not trillions of galaxies, each one of those being host to billions if not trillions of star systems of which our Solar system is but one. The idea that humans are the only intelligent species in this vast Universe is really nothing but preposterous. There are plenty ...
and a different set of ideas that have led him to discover wonderful things about how synapses work. But he himself is still in conflict. He cannot believe that billions of cells and trillions of synapses could do enough. He wants to have yet one more part, the mind. What goodness is ...
Storm Ciaran turns deadly in northern Europe, as 100-mph winds knock out power for millions (accuweather.com) Global warming in the pipeline | Oxford Open Climate Change | Oxford Academic (oup.com) A Smoking Gun for Biden’s Big Climate Decision? | The New Yorker ...
the agency has begun building a place to store all the trillions of words and thoughts and whispers captured in its electronic net. and, of course, it's all being done in secret. to those on the inside, the old adage that nsa stands for never say anything applies more than ever. utah...
There are a ridiculously large number of examples: eliminating the inheritance tax paid by the wealthiest one percent of families is considered a much higher priority than addressing the suffering of the millions of long-term unemployed; Wall Street’s interest in legalizing gambling in trillions ...
Thousands have been evacuated, millions exposed to air pollution, New York a doom orange and even the titans of Wall Street choking. Catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, back-to-back cyclones in the Pacific islands and droughts in Africa haven’t been enough to create ...