By samim23: Recently, I experimented with Recurrent Neural Networks as applied to political speech writing. The result, Obama-RNN generated a fair amount of buzz and fuelled a productive debate, including speculation that Sara Palin is a bot. For the next experiment I decided to apply the system to TED.
Officials announced last Saturday, work on a parallel waterway to allow two-way traffic on Egypt’s Suez Canal will be finished in time to allow ships to transit for a gala inauguration ceremony at the key trade route on Aug. 6.
Continue reading… “Egypt’s plans to open new Suez Canal with August 6th ceremony”
In some instances, new technology is only available to the wealthiest people or the largest businesses at first, before slowly filtering down to the rest of the populace. In other instances, it seems to be everywhere at once. Continue reading… “Top 5 African sectors ready to be taken over by IoT”
Engineers from Stanford have developed a state-by-state plan to convert U.S. to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2050. Continue reading… “Stanford engineers’ plan for converting U.S. to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2050”
US Department of Energy Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory have found a way to use diamonds and graphene to create a new material combination that demonstrates so-called superlubricity. Continue reading… “Scientists create ‘friction-free’ material”
Futurist Thomas Frey: When Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, took the stage at Edaily’s 6th World Strategy Forum on June 11th at the famed Shilla Seoul, his keynote about how he became an entrepreneur was very personal. With a comical flare for storytelling, he carefully laid out many of his failed attempts for launching businesses prior to Wikipedia.
Entrepreneurship comes in many forms, but startups like Wikipedia are niched in the rarest of all categories now referred to as unicorn companies. Unicorns fall into a one-in-a-million classification where companies like Uber, Dropbox, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Snapchat have revenues that grow exponentially into the billion-dollar range seemingly over night. Continue reading… “The Future of South Korea”
In the near future, banks will no longer be on street corners or housed in high-rise towers, they will be in our pockets or on our wrists. Continue reading… “The end of the big banks is coming”
Waking up on a weekday is one of the hardest things to do, unless you’re a morning person. But the SensorWake is trying to ease the transition between sleep and waking up. Continue reading… “Alarm clock that will wake you up with the smell of bacon of other delicious scents”
Surprisingly there are a wealth (both in quantity and value) of markets that are investigating the value of wearables in the enterprise, with a rich ecosystem of devices, a plethora of uses. Continue reading… “The periodic table of wearable technology”
U.S. and Chinese scientists have, for the first time, developed a method to inject microelectronic devices such as wires and transistors directly into the brain (or other body parts) to measure or stimulate neural activity. Continue reading… “Injectable electronic brain implants”
Many college graduates are unemployed or underemployed, leading some to speculate whether college is worth it, in our post-2008/2009 slow growth recovery. Is some of the planning for college just plain wrong? How does the future look for millions of unprepared, untrained, or misdirected job seekers? Continue reading… “With many college graduates unemployed or underemployed, is college worth it?”
Everyone learns the value of natural selection when learning basic biology – a species either adapts to their changing environment or dies off. This process also applies to governments, in some ways, but millions of people can still be chained to a failing state with no exit options. Continue reading… “Floating cities could be the next frontier”