An interview with Prof. Marya Schechtman from the Carboncopies Foundation Winter 2020 Workshop held on March 15, 2020.
Category: futurism – Page 75
Databricks is in talks to raise up to $8 billion from investors that would value the data analytics company at $55 billion, in one of the largest fundraises in Silicon Valley.
Colonizing Red Dwarfs
Posted in alien life, futurism
For every yellow star like our own there are ten times as many smaller stars. Red Dwarfs are the most common type of star, outnumbering all the others combined, and as we head out into interstellar space to colonize the galaxy, the exoplanets around these red alien suns may be the most common home for settlers.
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Colonizing Red Dwarfs.
Science \& Futurism with Isaac Arthur.
Episode 275, January 27, 2021
Written, Produced \& Narrated by Isaac Arthur.
Editors:
Darius Said.
Jason Burbank.
Jerry Guern / @jerrysstories711
Keith Blockus.
S. Kopperud.
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From trash to treasure
Posted in futurism
Professor Huantian Cao, are finding ways to interrupt that environmentally harmful process and turn the shreds into something new and usable.
“The scale of waste in the apparel industry is huge,” said Cobb, associate professor of fashion and apparel studies.
Research at UD explores ways to transform, reuse textile waste.
When you think of nuclear devastation, you imagine shockwaves, fireballs, and destruction. But the true nightmare lies in what comes after—the fallout. Now, imagine a weapon so lethal it could render Earth uninhabitable for centuries. Meet the cobalt bomb, a terrifying \.
Getting AIs to work together could be a powerful force multiplier for the technology.
Philip Feldman at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County told New Scientist that the resulting communication speed-ups could help multi-agent systems tackle bigger, more complex problems than possible using natural language.
But the researchers say there’s still plenty of room for improvement. For a start, it would be helpful if models of different sizes and configurations could communicate. And they could squeeze out even bigger computational savings by compressing the intermediate representations before transferring them between models.
However, it seems likely this is just the first step towards a future in which the diversity of machine languages rivals that of human ones.
