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Anti-anti-communism

A 2009 poll in eight east European countries asked if the economic situation for ordinary people was ‘better, worse or about the same as it was under communism’. The results stunned observers: 72per cent of Hungarians, and 62per cent of both Ukrainians and Bulgarians believed that most people were worse off after 1989. In no country did more than 47per cent of those surveyed agree that their lives improved after the advent of free markets.

In field tests, device harvests water from desert air

You really can extract clean drinking water right from the air, even in the driest of deserts, MIT researchers have found. They’ve demonstrated a real-world version of a water-harvesting system based on metal organic frameworks, or MOFs, that they first described last year.

The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS

Physics grappled with the question of whether space is absolute or relative for centuries, before deciding in favor of relativity. But, it is only in recent years that the brain sciences have begun to discuss a parallel set of questions. For many years now, absolute space has ruled neuroscience.

A Visiting Star Jostled Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago

Bring Deep Learning Algorithms To Your Security Cameras

AI is quickly revolutionizing the security camera industry. Several manufacturers sell cameras which use deep learning to detect cars, people, and other events. These smart cameras are generally expensive though, compared to their “dumb” counterparts.

The 5 Deep Learning Frameworks Every Serious Machine Learner Should Be Familiar With

Automated front-end development using deep learning

Automated front-end development using deeplearningSketchCode: Go from idea to HTML in 5secondsAshwin Kumar was previously the co-founder of Sway Finance, a Y Combinator-backed startup that used machine learning to automate accounting. At Insight, he developed a model that allows users to create working HTML websites from hand-drawn wireframes, significantly accelerating the design process. He is now a Deep Learning Scientist at Mythic.

Machine Learning Top 10 Open Source Projects

We compared projects with new or major release during this period. Mybridge AI ranks projects based on a variety of factors to measure its quality for professionals.

How AI can learn to generate pictures of cats

The generator is a counterfeiter trying to produce seemingly real data. It has no idea of what the real data is, but it learns to adjust from the feedback of the other model. The discriminator is a inspector trying to determine what the fake counterfeit data is (by comparing it with real data), while trying to not raise false positives on the real data.

GPU-accelerated Neural Networks in JavaScript

While its feature set is geared towards neural networks, deeplearn.js can be described as a general-purpose machine learning framework. Propel is a library for scientific computing that offers automatic differentiation. Gpu.js provides a convenient way to run JavaScript functions on the GPU.