DS Lecturer - Stanford University - Stanford, CA
Stanford, CA, United States
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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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'mind-Boggling' Math Could Make Blockchain Work For Wall Street
A major breakthrough in cryptography may have solved one of the biggest obstacles to using blockchain technology on Wall Street: keeping transaction data private...
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Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities Are Murky
Hot-air balloon pilot Richard Varney typically spends his weekends transporting tourists around central Massachusetts in a huge, multicolored balloon. But on a...
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Scientists in Mexico Scramble to Deploy Seismic Sensors
Late one night in September, Victor Cruz, a geophysicist at Mexico's National Autonomous University, submitted an article to a scientific journal describing progress...
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The Iphone Didn't Emerge from Nothing. Here's What Came Before It
On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stood on the MacWorld stage in his jeans and a black turtleneck.
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Researchers Get First Look at Electrons Escaping Atoms
Researchers have succeeded in tracking an electron leaving the vicinity of an atom as the atom absorbs light, a first step toward controlling electrons' behavior...
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Gravitational Wave Detection Wins Physics Nobel
Three physicists who had leading roles in the first direct detection of gravitational waves have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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How Experts Comb Satellite Images For Clues on North Korea's Nuclear Tests
Satellite images of North Korean missile testing sites or nuclear reactor facilities can sometimes reveal smears of yellow or befuddling brown objects at certain...
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Understanding Ethereum, Bitcoin's Virtual Cousin
Bitcoin has many cousins and competitors. None have grown more popular than Ethereum, a global computer network with its own virtual currency, called Ether.
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Exploring a Different Kind of Team Sport
Imagine that you wanted to get teens excited about a competitive, extracurricular team.
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Baidu Invites China's Cybercops to Label, Rebut Fake News
Baidu Inc. is building a system to allow China's cybercops to spot and fix "online rumors" deemed a threat to stability, allowing police agencies to insert themselves...
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The Massive Hedge Fund Betting on AI
As chief executive officer of one of the world's largest hedge funds, Luke Ellis prides himself on a healthy appetite for risk.
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God Is a Bot, and Anthony Levandowski Is His Messenger
Many people in Silicon Valley believe in the Singularity—the day in our near future when computers will surpass humans in intelligence and kick off a feedback loop...
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Robot Spelunkers Go For a Dip
NASA has changed the perspective of science, building satellites to study Earth's surface. Deep below that surface, where it's harder for satellites to see, is...
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Robots Could Destabilise World Through War and nemployment, Says n
The UN has warned that robots could destabilise the world ahead of the opening of a headquarters in The Hague to monitor developments in artificial intelligence...
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Europe Is Designing a New Particle Collider to Take On China
CERN, the European nuclear physics research organization, is contemplating the development of a particle accelerator three times larger than the Large Hadron Collider...
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Baseball Pitches Augmented Reality to Catch Fans
During Apple's iPhone launch two weeks ago, I spotted a 10-second augmented reality demo that could potentially change the way we watch baseball.
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Facebook's New 'ai Camera' Team Wants to Add a Layer to the World
Take a video of a birthday cake's candles sparkling in an Instagram story, then tap the sticker button. Near the top of the list you'll see a slice of birthday...
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Former Apple Engineers Working on New Eyes For Driverless Cars
Soroush Salehian raised both arms and spun in circles as if celebrating a touchdown.
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'one-Size-Fits-All’ Threshold For P Values Under Fire
Researchers are at odds over when to dub a discovery 'significant'.
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Remembering Lotfi Zadeh, the Inventor of Fuzzy Logic
One night in July, 1964, the logician Lotfi Zadeh found himself alone in his parents' New York apartment, his dinner plans cancelled.
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