Science and SciFi
This is a reblog of the article by in the BBC. See the original here. Archaeologists have excavated more sections of an extraordinary Aztec tower of human skulls under the centre of Mexico City. Mexico’s… Read More »Sci-Advent – Aztec skull tower: Archaeologists unearth new sections in Mexico City
UPDATE – On April 1st 2021 MacTex released the 2021 version of the software. In this new version the code is universal and works well with both Intel and Apple silicon: All binaries in MacTeX-2021… Read More »Installing MacTeX in M1 Apple Macs
To develop a more human-like robotic gripper, it is necessary to provide sensing capabilities to the fingers. However, conventional sensors compromise the mechanical properties of soft robots. Now, scientists have designed a 3D printable soft… Read More »Sci-Advent – Getting the right grip: Designing soft and sensitive robotic fingers
Researchers at Hokkaido University and Amoeba Energy in Japan have, inspired by the efficient foraging behavior of a single-celled amoeba, developed an analog computer for finding a reliable and swift solution to the traveling salesman… Read More »Sci-Advent – ‘Electronic amoeba’ finds approximate solution to traveling salesman problem in linear time
Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network to travel through the Solar System much faster than was previously possible. Such routes can drive comets and asteroids near Jupiter to Neptune’s distance in under a decade… Read More »Sci-Advent – New superhighway system discovered in the Solar System
Keeping up with the Sci-advent post from yesterday about vision and optics, this report from the University of Michigan is relevant news. Researchers say eye care accessibility around the globe isn’t keeping up with an… Read More »Sci-Advent – Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years
This is a translation of the article by Antimio Cruz in Crónica. You can read the original in Spanish here. As a former student of Prof. Chávez-Cerda, I am very pleased to see that his… Read More »Sci-Advent – Mathematics and physics help protect the sight of patients with diabetics: Sabino Chávez-Cerda
This survey paper extracts practical considerations from recent case studies of a variety of ML applications and is organized into sections that correspond to stages of a typical machine learning workflow: from data management and… Read More »Sci-Advent – Challenges in Deploying Machine Learning: a Survey of Case Studies
This is a reblog from the Nature article by Ewen Callway. You can see the original here. An artificial intelligence (AI) network developed by Google AI offshoot DeepMind has made a gargantuan leap in solving… Read More »Sci-Advent – DeepMind’s AI solving protein structures
This is a reblog of the article in Nautilus by Natalie Wolchover. See the original here. A team in Paris has made the most precise measurement yet of the fine-structure constant, killing hopes for a… Read More »Sci-Advent – Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe