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The virus hunter: In a bygone era, C.J. Peters learned how to bend the rules

“Cracking” Morse code with RNNs

Spoiler alert: Morse code doesn’t really need cracking. Its useful because messages can be sent using this code with minimal equipment, and I say it doesn’t need cracking because the code is well known and what the combinations of dots and dashes stand for is no secret. But, in theory, it is a substitution cipher — where each letter of the alphabet (and each digit) has some representation using dots and dashes, as illustrated below.

Building a Next Word Predictor in Tensorflow

Next Word Prediction or what is also called Language Modeling is the task of predicting what word comes next. It is one of the fundamental tasks of NLP and has many applications. You might be using it daily when you write texts or emails without realizing it.

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.

Timothy Lu seeks to combat disease by reprogramming biological systems

Chinese Startups See Latin America as a Land of Opportunity

Can Many-Worlds Theory Rescue Us From Boltzmann Brains?

Can you trust the world to be consistent? Scientists don’t have much choice. They need to assume that objective observations of the universe can be trusted.

Spooky action at a distance, how an AWS outage ate our load balancer

He’s not just saying he feels her pain—he really is

Scotland’s floating wind farm is showing how powerful offshore wind can be