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Is the cloud moving to the sea?16 September, 2020
In this week's Exponential Chats, some of the team members responsible for Amalgam's development will have a chat about Microsoft's Project codenamed Natick which was an attempt of sustainably running a Data Center underwater. After 2 years of deployment, Microsoft is claiming that their servers were up to 8 times more reliable than their counterparts on land. Is that an indication that the cloud is actually moving to the sea? Come join us and participate by asking questions or giving your opini
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How safe are self-driving cars?09 September, 2020
In this week's Exponential Chats, some of the team members responsible for Amalgam's development will have a chat about the safety of current self-driving technology. Despite the fact that there are very few cars on the road today capable of self-driving in all conditions, most new cars are already incorporating some of that technology and soon we'll be trusting our lives to it. Whether or not you're ready give up on your steering wheel we think that you'll enjoy this discussion. Come join us an
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Should I start saving for my neuralink implant?02 September, 2020
In this week's Exponential Chats, some of the team members responsible for Amalgam's development will have a chat about the recently unveiled neuralink, a Brain-Machine interface developed by the company with the same name founded by Elon Musk.
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When will I be able to 3D Print my products from home?20 August, 2020
In this week's Exponential Chats, some of the team members responsible for Amalgam's development will have a chat about the promises of 3D Printing, that are yet to be fulfilled, of a future in which we'll be able to download models of products and 3D Print.
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Is the World going to be Deceived by Deepfakes?17 August, 2020
In this week's Exponential Chats, some of the team members responsible for Amalgam's development will have a chat addressing a common concern about Deep Fakes deceiving the world with ultra realistic images, videos, and voice synthesis.
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A few potential uses (and misuses) for GPT-311 August, 2020
GPT-3 is a 175 billion parameter autoregressive language model by OpenAI released in May 2020. It is a deep learning system that takes input in the form of human readable language and produces human readable output. The OpenAI team tested GPT-3 in Few-shot learning mode. The model is given a verbal description of the task and a few examples of context and completion at inference time. Then the machine is given another instance of context and expected to provide the completion. Two variations of
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How can I differentiate Artificial Intelligence from everything else?07 August, 2020
In next week's Exponential Chats, some of the team members responsible for Amalgam's development will have a chat about how Artificial Intelligence is defined with some practical examples and easy tips on how to distinguish AI from everything else.
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GPT-3: Is this the beginning of Skynet?05 August, 2020
In this week's Exponential Chats, some of the team members responsible for Amalgam's development will have a chat about Open AI's recently announced language model GPT-3.
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Top 6 Engineering Challenges for Machine Learning12 June, 2020
It is already 2020, and on top of a pandemic and civil unrest, our Machine Learning community still has to face challenges when working their way through creating models to solve the world's problems.
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Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity15 June, 2015
Disease is a word that carries such a visceral meaning: we've all had (or still have) one at some point, and have experienced the pains and challenges that come with it. They always reminds us of mortality and how fragile we all are and keeps us on our toes. Some diseases , however, are actually a design made to increase your longevity and this books points out several of them and goes deep in explaining the scien
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Experiences with Fail Safer28 February, 2015
During the past couple weeks I have been slowly bringing www.failsafer.com to a temporary halt. The whole process is not over yet, but although this halt isn’t meant to be permanent. Fail Safer have been a great entrepreneurial and technological experience in my life, and it pains me to not have the time I wish I could have to get past the beta phase and actually launch and market it. Even though it was a beta release, Fail Safer was already fully functional and it was
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The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity15 January, 2015
General Relativity have always been an intimidating topic for most people. The book makes it specially clear while recounting the story of the beginnings of the theory when almost all scientists showed strong resistance in accepting and even debating about the subject. Even to this day, the theory faces resistance from a small portion of the community. Although the book title calls it perfect, the extension of our understanding about it is rathe
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