AI Language Models & Transformers
Plausible text generation has been around for a couple of years, but how does it work – and what’s next? Rob Miles on Language Models and Transformers.
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The Biggest Project in Modern Mathematics
In a 1967 letter to the number theorist André Weil, a 30-year-old mathematician named Robert Langlands outlined striking conjectures that predicted a correspondence between two objects from completely different fields of math. The Langlands program was born. In a new video explainer, Rutgers University mathematician Alex Kontorovich takes us on a journey through the continents […]
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The OG Computer: How to Make Your Own Abacus
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Frank
- June 10, 2022
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- make your own abacus
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- who invented the computer
Think that the first computer was created during WW2? The 1800s with Babbage’s mechanical computer? Nope. the Ancient Egyptians had the OG: an abacus.
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The Absurd Search For Dark Matter
Here’s another science video to get your week off to a brilliant start. Finding your groove on a Monday may be hard, but just know that finding dark matter is even harder.
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Voyager 1 Is Sending Back Weird Data From Interstellar Space, Here’s Probably Why
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Frank
- June 6, 2022
- anton petrov
- astronomy
- Astrophysics
- Cosmic Rays
- edge of solar system
- galactic cosmic radiation
- galactic rays
- golden record
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- heliosphere
- hot plasma
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In this video, Anton talks about strange data that’s being sent by the NASA’s Voyager 1 probe. I think I’ve seen this movie before.
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Why Information Theory is Important
Zip files & error correction depend on information theory, Tim Muller takes us through how Claude Shannon’s early Computer Science work is still essential today!
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The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math
Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. The Turing Award-winning computer scientist pioneered the field of distributed systems, where multiple components on different networks coordinate to achieve a common objective. (Internet searches, cloud computing and artificial intelligence all involve orchestrating legions of powerful computing machines to work together.) In the early 1980s, Lamport […]
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How Electricity Actually Works
Veritasium conducts an experiment to see how electricity actually flows.
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Will Future Computers Will Be Radically Different?
For decades, digital computers have been dominant, but will that continue to be the case in the future? It wasn’t in the past.
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Computerphile Explains the Mythical Man Month
Many will have heard the phrase ‘Mythical Man Month’ and assume it’s simply about whether manpower and time are interchangeable – the book is really about much more. Professor Brailsford explains how this all relates to the humble byte
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