A motley collection of ideas
Transformer Explainer The most misleading thing about conversational AI is its confident fluency. Ask a question, and back comes an answer in polished, well-formed sentences. It is easy to anthropomorphize it, but behind those answers lie stark calculations rather than human thoughts. Transformer Explainer, developed by a team associated with Georgia Tech’s Polo Club of … Read more
https://beavermap.com By the mid-19th century, the Eurasian beaver had been exterminated from the Carpathian Basin, and for a time it even seemed that the species would become completely extinct: according to estimates, only about 1,200 individuals survived in Europe, scattered across just eight small populations. They were hunted mainly for their fur, but their meat … Read more
https://trek.nasa.gov One day, a trip to the Seychelles, Zanzibar or Thailand might no longer seem exciting enough. After Tibor Kapu’s space journey, how could we settle for anything less than Mars, Europa or the asteroid Vesta? While traveling there isn’t yet possible in person, we can already explore these destinations virtually. The NASA Solar System … Read more