“But adversarial examples keep cropping up: seemingly trivial changes to objects (even a single pixel) can stump an AI or send a self-driving car barelling [sic] through a stop sign.” | learn more
Alex Roy of TheDrive does a head-to-head comparison of the two semi-autonomous technologies. Though I’m a huge Tesla fan, I must admit the SuperCruise outshines Autopilot in some comparisons. | learn more
Chicago Magazine has two graphs that help shed light on the details. | learn more
One of my new favorite writers, Ernie Smith @ Tedium, tells the story of how activist Terry Rakolta tried to put the brakes on the show Married… With Children, inadvertently made the show stronger and saving Fox in the process. | learn more
Dr. Kazunori Asada, a vision expert, has rendered some of Van Gogh’s famous paintings as seen through a colorblind lens. He claims they make a lot more sense that way. Being a native-born member of the colorblind tribe, I can […]
It’s a Chicago tradition for people to drink early and often on this wonderful holiday. Usually the results are a mix of sad and hilarious. The folks at CWBChicago took it upon themselves to monitor police and fire radios to […]
“Now scientists have demonstrated how effective a specially-designed form of graphene can be at purifying water with a pretty challenging test: the filter made water from Sydney Harbour safe to drink in one step.” | learn more
Ryan Bradley from WIRED went out into the desert with a panel from NBD Nanotechnologies that extracts water from thin air. | learn more
CB Insights offers a nice digest of many private companies applying engineering principals to biology, often by manipulating DNA. I think this field of science is truly transformational for the world. | learn more