“We might call them superstitions or spells, but they genuinely drum anxiety away.” Anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas writes about the prior research into superstition as well as his most recent experiments that demonstrated that “those who performed the ritual were faster […]
While finishing high school, this author chose to volunteer at a local hospice. ~ learn more
The original prize was designed to promote space tourism with a $10 million bounty. Now here comes another: “XPRIZE Healthspan is a 7-year, $101 million global competition to revolutionize the way we approach human aging.” ~ learn more
“In short, the paper validates the idea that it’s now possible to apply machine learning to quantify, digitize, and engineer scent. A core problem preventing us from digitizing scent is something that the other senses already have – a map. […]
This blows my mind. I double-checked the math and think it’s accurate. The average power needed to generate one image from text is equivalent to an entire cell phone battery. A new paper published by researchers from Hugging Face and […]
“A good job for drilling down into the specifics of automation is welding. Welding today exists right on the “automation frontier” — some industries, like car manufacturing, have automated nearly all their welding, while others, like construction, have automated very […]
Created by an anxious person who didn’t always have someone to talk out their worries with. Describe anything you’re anxious about and the tool will help put you at ease (if appropriate). It can also predict and handle your rebuttals. ~ learn […]
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“In 2012, someone stole 50,000 bitcoin from the Silk Road, an illegal dark web marketplace. Over time, the value of the stolen bitcoin skyrocketed to more than $3 billion dollars and for years it remained one of the biggest mysteries […]