Deep learning, in that vision, could transform almost any industry. “There are fundamental changes that will happen now that computer vision really works,” says Jeff Dean, who leads the Google Brain project. Or, as he unsettlingly rephrases his own sentence, “now that computers have opened...
I was stunned. I was 18 and had grown up in a small town where questioning authority, especially God’s, was a punishable offense. Suddenly, I was learning it was safe to question the source of my deepest shame. After a lot of therapy, I came out in 2009 — first in my student n...
You came into a structure, you changed the structure, and you have reduced the size of the structure in the interest of speed. What is the biggest difference between the structure you came into and the structure you have now? One is just functional orientation. The second area...
Video games are a creative medium and creativity can only come from human beings. An AI model cansimulatecreativity by throwing human art into a blender and spitting up some approximation of the real thing, but the final result is always devoid of meaning. It can animate Kratos swinging an a...
Much has changed over the course of my lifetime. As part of this project and in partnership with the California Endowment andNORC at the University of Chicago, The Times this year launched a new national poll on LGBTQ+ issues, asking some of the same questions from 1985 but also a host...
Why Is My Cat Meowing Differently? You may notice that your cat’s meow suddenly sounds different, often taking on a hoarse sound. There are several reasons this could happen, but the most common reason tends to be anupper respiratory infection. ...
that the rest of the population was disappointingly affected by the events of the shooting. Neither of us stopped to think that it was we who were affected. We were both escaping through our intellect, not our emotions. It was I who chad changed, not them. In time I asked myself, Why...
And after agreeing to sign with the Jaguars, Tyson Alualu changed his mind and returned to the Steelers on a two-year, $5.5 million pact. What went wrong: They were forced to eat their financial vegetables and watch Bud Dupree and Mike Hilton ...
…10They were looking intently into the sky as He was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the ...
Convoy suddenly laid off nearly everyone on its staff, shut down its core business, and, shortly after, raffled off its technology platform to another freight startup. Ina memo to employeesthat was obtained by GeekWire, its CEO, Dan Lewis, said Convoy had hit a “perfect storm”...