Two weeks ago, I made a long overdue visit to the Kentland impact site, a scant ninety-minute drive from Chicago…
On paper, my PhD is in Psychiatry (“but no I’m not a psychiatrist, but yes I’ll be a doctor of some sort, but no…
Ancient vapours are helping researchers identify gold deposits in Nova Scotia
Last week, we held our Breakout Labs Cocktails and Conversation in New York City.
By Carla Elliff
By Mark Elbroch, Puma Program Director for Panthera
We must not allow political ideology to skew or hide scientific findings. Yes, the male and female brain are different, even if a lot of people don’t want to admit that difference. And because they’re different, we need to take those differences into account when doing research and when applying the results of said research.
In high school I was really good at English and Literature. When my literature teacher let the class “work together” on homework, everyone else just passed around my answers and copied them and my teacher didn’t care because it was easier grading…
Building anything takes work. You follow instructions to make your Lego set. You have a workout plan to build…
Insider secret: most of these articles have the same kind of narrative arc. It goes something like: a person exists in some state of discontent, they find podcasts, they start a…
“I know there are thousands of anecdotes from people whose pain or anorexia has been diminished by…
This view of ML ignores that we haven’t solved the problem of induction. And our reliance on it us basically a massive form of confusing correlation and causation.
Deep learning is not a shortcut, by any stretch of the imagination. It’s true that if we can use a trained model to make predictions, then we normally would…
Why did we think a lecture about Pluto, at a local winery, would be a fun event on a Friday night? Oh, right — winery. With the lure of alcohol to draw us in ( if I was an animal, I’d be enticed into the open by a hunter with nice glass of Pinot Noir) our…
By Mark Elbroch, PhD, Puma Program Director for Panthera
Throughout my programming time, I have never been more concerned about anything in an API more that validations. Validation is required in an API to ensure that it does not break and the proper input fields are entered. I just was not fond of…
Hello, my name is Nucleus. As you may all know, I house the genetic information — DNA compacted as chromosomes in eukaryotic cells, thus the reason why a lot of people call me “the control center”. There are many theories about how I came to be, but I will share…
Abel is right. Immersion is the key. It’s like trying to learn how to drive a car by reading manuals alone. Eventually, you have to get behind the wheel. That’s the only way to really learn. Immersion in a language is the only way to really learn to speak and understand a language. Non-immersive classes are only useful if we want to learn the structure and more theoretical linguistic aspects of a language.
