The 2023 Breakthrough Technologies It’s finally here—our 2023 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. Two climate items made the list this year: electric vehicles and battery recycling! We’ve been…
Artificial intelligence
Five decades later, NASA has a plan to send astronauts back to the lunar surface. Called Artemis, after the sister of Apollo in Greek mythology, the project aims…
It’s 2019; no one doubts the effectiveness of deep learning in computer vision. Or natural language processing. With “normal,” Excel-style, a.k.a. tabular data however, the situation is different….
A bit more than a year ago, in his beautiful guest post, Nick Strayer showed how to classify a set of everyday activities using smartphone-recorded gyroscope and accelerometer…
If you’ve been thinking about diving into deep learning for a while – using R, preferentially –, now is a good time. For TensorFlow / Keras, one of…
sparklyr 1.4 is now available on CRAN! To install sparklyr 1.4 from CRAN, run In this blog post, we will showcase the following much-anticipated new functionalities from the…
“It’s morally wrong, in my opinion, for us not to be doing this — and to do this as quickly and safely as we can,” he says. Wildly premature…
Using a simple set of magnets, MIT researchers have come up with a sophisticated way to monitor muscle movements, which they hope will make it easier for people…
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk says he will step down as Twitter’s CEOAs soon as he can…
We trained "critique-writing" models to describe flaws in summaries. Human evaluators find flaws in summaries much more often when shown our model’s critiques. Larger models are better at…