Harnessing the Human mind to solve quantum physics problems
I’d like to briefly share with you an interesting example of gamification in quantum physics. You can find the corresponding source article here. Faced with […]
Do plants compute?
Plants are no longer considered as insensitive and passive life forms. We even found novel means they communicate. What is more interesting is that several […]
A geeky map
I’d like to say a few words about my latest impulsive buy: a geeky map about British TV shows. Graphic designer Tim Ritz has […]
Boundless consciousness?
I’m back with my second post of 2016 regarding consciousness. Hope it will be delightful. Intelligences are multiple Consciousness is not yet fully defined. As […]
An affordable credit card-sized supercomputer by NVIDIA
NVIDIA announced yesterday the Jetson TX1, a small form-factor Linux system-on-module, credit card sized for various application ranging from autonomous navigation to deep learning-driven inference […]
Some hints for a mathematical world
Max Tegmark, a cosmologist, considers the external reality to be essentially mathematical. In that sense, the mathematical entities (such as groups or varieties) may not […]
Home reading environment is beneficial to children
While we already know that reading fiction improves brain connectivity and function and its effects is long lasting, a new study proves that “listening to stories, greater […]
Deep learning for everyone!
That’s great news! Google just open-sourced TensorFlow, its deep (machine) learning library. The engine is widely used at Google: by speech recognition systems, in the […]
Everyone should speak SQL!
Do you know that you use databases everyday? Actually databases are everywhere. When you log in, your credentials are validated against a database. When you […]
KIC 8462852 is kind of Wow!
Today I will talk about astrophysics, exobiology and, somehow, metaphysics. I will also submit a personal (counterintuitive) hypothesis that needs confirmation: the Wow! signal, the best […]