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Today, I was at the Big data: theoretical and practical challenges workshop at IHP and liked it very much, at least the talks and was pleasantly surprised that this issue of phase transition being center to demonstration arguments. Michael Jordan talked about a new kind of (simple but seemingly powerful) K-means algorithm. Alexandre D'Aspremont presented some new work on the approximation bounds for sparse principal component analysis. Alfred Hero described phase
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A robot moves plants to where they thrive, and also brings its closer to its friends. Continue reading →
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A new open source project invites scientists to create virtual worms from the cell up. Continue reading →
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Equipped with new object recognition system, this robot is one step closer to helping out in the kitchen.
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Traditional electronics have advanced at a rapid pace over the last decade, now it's biotechnology's turn.
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This newly published study, done by marketing experts at two universities, demonstrates how you can, if you like, make simple, clear sense of complicated, not-well-understood biological/medical/psychological/political phenomena: “The Fluctuating Female Vote — Politics, Religion, and the Ovulatory Cycle,” Kristina M. Durante [pictured here], Ashley Rae, Vladas Griskevicius [also pictured here], Psychological Science, epub April 23, 2013. The [...]
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If you were compiling a compendium of everyday household items which can pose a danger, stepladders, drain-cleaning chemicals, and hot saucepans might immediately spring to mind. Feather duvets would quite probably be considerably further down the list. But don’t be lulled into a false sense of security by their lightweight, soft and fluffy demeanour - [...]
