Making a Psychologist: Vibe Coding a Data Collector
This is part 2 of Making a Psychologist, a blog series written in part to promote my good new textbook, Fundamentals of Biological Psychology: A Critical Perspective.…
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Smart sprayer study confirms AI’s cost-cutting capabilities
"This research demonstrated that significant herbicide use reductions are possible with smart sprayers compared with broadcast applications,” reports Anita Dille, Ph.D., WSSA member scientist, corresponding author, Kansas State University agronomy professor, and her research team.
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Artificial Intelligence on Campus
How instructors are responding to the rise in AI Artificial intelligence (AI), while not a new topic, has risen in popularity since the development of software like ChatGPT and image generators that create visuals from phrases such as ‘purple dog riding a bike.’…
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The latest research in training modern machine learning models: ‘A deterministic modification of gradient descent that avoids saddle points
Machine learning models, particularly those based on deep neural networks, have revolutionized the fields of data analysis, image recognition, and natural language processing. A key factor in the training of these models is the use of variants of gradient descent algorithms, which optimize model parameters by minimizing a loss function. However, the training optimization problem for neural networks is highly non-convex, presenting unique challenges.
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The use of artificial intelligence with sensing techniques for the management of insect pests and diseases in cotton
The use of artificial intelligence with sensing techniques for the management of insect pests and diseases in cotton
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Embryo endgames: survival strategies for human extinction events and space colonization
Doomsday undone. Artificial wombs, cryopreserved embryos and AI could allow civilizations and ecosystems to survive on post-Apocalypse worlds and exoplanets
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Robot Athletes and Entertainers
The creation of robot athletes is a novel benchmark problem for techniques in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and intelligent robotics. The goal is to develop intelligent robot systems that can participate in sports events following the same rules as humans.
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Experimental Results in Artificial Intelligence as a way to share experiences in pattern identification automatic decisions making
In recent years, a progressive development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems for Decision Support Systems (DSS) has taken place in the field of service and resource management.…
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Innovative AI system could help make fuel cells more efficient
An artificial intelligence system developed by a Cornell-led team has identified a promising material for creating more efficient fuel cells – a potential breakthrough in both materials science and machine learning.
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Will Innovations Disrupt Existing Regulatory Frameworks?
In May 2013, Defense Distributed, an online open-source organisation, released a plan called ‘The Liberator’ on the Internet. The plan allowed the manufacturing of a 3D-printable, single-shot handgun.…
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Machines may soon replace healthcare workers in some aspects of their traditional roles
Machines may soon replace healthcare workers in some aspects of their traditional roles. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly mastering rule-based tasks, and acting as a powerful decision-making tool and monitoring system to support clinicians. …
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A glimpse into the world of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics
Take a glimpse into the world of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics in this new video abstract of an article published in MRS Bulletin. Take a glimpse into the world of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics in this new video abstract of an article published in MRS Bulletin
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Quantum materials pave the path for synthetic neuroscience
Exciting new research published in MRS Bulletin reveals how quantum materials are being used within the field of neuroscience to demystify the inner workings of the human brain.
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Artificial Intelligence for Materials
The materials community is just beginning to utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in the research process, and it is already clear that this represents a potentially game changing method to accelerate materials development.
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The methodology for thinking about ways of knowing
The Knowledge Engineering Review has just published an exciting special issue on visualization, visual representation, and reasoning with visual knowledge. With Artificial Intelligence (AI) understood as “the methodology for thinking about ways of knowing” (in the 1988 words of Seymour Papert), computer scientists and knowledge engineers are increasingly interested in alternatives to text as forms of knowledge and as means for its representation.…
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How the Digital Curation Crisis is endangering archaeology
Archaeology and cultural heritage work have fully entered the digital age. Today, researchers rely on tools like 3D scanners, a variety of GIS software, and Lidar equipped drones to document the past in ways that were unimaginable just a few decades ago.…
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Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
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Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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The National Archaeology Plan and the future of Spanish archaeology
A critical milestone for the archaeological ecosystem has been the publication this April of the National Archaeology Plan (NAP), part of a larger framework for cultural heritage that the Spanish Ministry of Culture has been developing for almost 40 years.…
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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How did Down syndrome get its name?
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
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Challenging neoliberalism through archaeological practice
A few months ago, we responded to a call for papers for a themed issue for Advances in Archaeological Practice entitled “Advances in Archaeological Labor Management.”…
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The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
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The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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