Customer Rewards get a lot weirder if you think of them as seperate transactions
Source: xkcd: Customer Rewards
Day: June 17, 2018
Giant African baobab trees die suddenly after thousands of years
Some of Africa’s oldest and biggest baobab trees have abruptly died, wholly or in part, in the past decade, according to researchers. The trees, aged between 1,100 and 2,500 years and in some cases as wide as a bus is long, may have fallen victim to climate change, the team speculated. “We report that nine Read more about Giant African baobab trees die suddenly after thousands of years[…]
A.I. Can Track Human Bodies Through Walls Now, With Just a Wifi Signal
A new piece of software has been trained to use wifi signals — which pass through walls, but bounce off living tissue — to monitor the movements, breathing, and heartbeats of humans on the other side of those walls. The researchers say this new tech’s promise lies in areas like remote healthcare, particularly elder care, Read more about A.I. Can Track Human Bodies Through Walls Now, With Just a Wifi Signal[…]
A machine has figured out Rubik’s Cube all by itself – using a reverse technique called autodictic iteration
In these scenarios, a deep-learning machine is given the rules of the game and then plays against itself. Crucially, it is rewarded at each step according to how it performs. This reward process is hugely important because it helps the machine to distinguish good play from bad play. In other words, it helps the machine Read more about A machine has figured out Rubik’s Cube all by itself – using a reverse technique called autodictic iteration[…]