Archive for September, 2019
M.I.T. Media Lab, Already Rattled by the Epstein Scandal, Has a New Worry – The New York Times
Sunday, September 29th, 2019Avoiding the pitfalls of single particle cryo-electron microscopy: Einstein from noise | PNAS
Sunday, September 29th, 2019Avoiding the pitfalls of single-particle #cryoEM: Einstein from noise https://www.PNAS.org/content/110/45/18037 A great paper, explaining in simple terms how you can fool yourself with fancy computer algorithms. However, perhaps it’s a bit too honest – only a Nobelist could write this!
Announcing the “I Spy a Periodic Table” photo contest results
Sunday, September 29th, 2019Three ‘Godfathers of Deep Learning’ Selected for Turing Award
Sunday, September 29th, 2019QT:{{”
“Geoff Hinton, an emeritus professor at the University of Toronto and a senior researcher at Alphabet Inc.’s Google Brain, Yann LeCun, a professor at New York University and the chief AI scientist at Facebook Inc., and Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal as well as co-founder of AI company Element AI Inc., will share this year’s award, which is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery.
The three winners will split a $1 million prize that comes with the award, which is currently underwritten by Google. Hinton said he will donate a portion of his share to the University of Toronto’s humanities department. “They are much less well-funded and I think the humanities are very important to the future,” he said in an interview. Bengio said he may use his share to help fight climate change.” “}}
Three ‘Godfathers of Deep Learning’ Selected for Turing Award
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-27/three-godfathers-of-deep-learning-selected-for-turing-award