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 is a reblog from an article by John Naughton in the Guardian on Dec 5th 2020. Read the original here. My eye was caught by the title of a working paper published by the… Read More »Sci-Advent – Writing Reports Tailored for AI Readers
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
Right!!! It is early December and this post has been in the inkwell for a few months now. Earlier in the year I received the comments and suggestions from reviewers and the final approval from… Read More »Statistics and Data Visualisation with Python
Quantum magic squares In a new paper in the Journal of Mathematical Physics, Tim Netzer and Tom Drescher from the Department of Mathematics and Gemma De las Cuevas from the Department of Theoretical Physics have… Read More »Quantum magic squares
I was pleasently surprised and bewildered about this article in the New York Times reporting on a recent paper in the journal Mammalia about fluorescence being observed in platypuses when shining ultraviolet light on them…… Read More »Fluorescent Platypuses (??)