The famous patient Henry Molaison (long known as H.M.) suffered damage to his hippocampus after a surgical attempt to cure his epilepsy. As a result, he had anterograde amnesia, which meant that things he learned… Read More »Sci-advent – How does the brain manage its learning?
This is a reblog of an article in ScienceDaily. See the original here. Quantum computers have already managed to surpass ordinary computers in solving certain tasks — unfortunately, totally useless ones. The next milestone is… Read More »Sci-Advent – Tiny quantum computer solves real optimization problem
Researchers at the Institute of Biotechnology (IBt) of Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) have created a promising plant-based anti-inflammatory to treat obesity and Alzheimer’s. Using extracts from the Malva parviflora the researchers have shown that… Read More »Sci-Advent – Promising Anti-Inflammatory to Threat Obesity and Alzheimer’s
In a recent paper published in the ArXiV, researchers have highlighted the advantages that artificial intelligence techniques bring to the research of fields such as astrophysics. They are making their models available and that is… Read More »Sci-Advent – Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Computing and Gravitational Waves
This is a reblog of the post by Hayley Dunning in the Imperial College website. See the original here. Researchers have used AI to control beams for the next generation of smaller, cheaper accelerators for… Read More »Sci-Advent – Artificial intelligence improves control of powerful plasma accelerators
This is a reblog of the article by Cian Hughes and Sumit Agrawal in ENTNews. See the original here. Machine learning in healthcare Over the last five years there have been significant advances in high… Read More »SciAdvent – Machine Learning in Ear, Nose and Throat
The automation of scientific discoveries is here to stay. Among others, a machine-human cooperation found a hitherto unknown general model explaining the relation between the area and age of an island and the number of… Read More »Sci-Advent – Artificial intelligence helps scientists develop new general models in ecology
Optimised quantum algorithms present solution to Fermi-Hubbard model on near-term hardware This a reblog of an article in Science Daily. See the original here. The team, led by Bristol researcher and Phasecraft co-founder, Dr. Ashley… Read More »Sci-Advent – Significant step toward quantum advantage
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