Two Minute Papers showcases the paper “Unsupervised Learning of Depth and Ego-Motion from Video” here in this YouTube post.
Ben Sparks explains (and codes) the so-called SIR Model being used to predict the spread of cornavirus (COVID-19) in this Numberphile video.
3Blue1Brown walks through the mathematics of epidemics through simulations.
The source code for this video is visible here:
https://github.com/3b1b/manim/blob/shaders/from_3b1b/active/sir.py
Jon Wood shows us how to how to produce n-grams from text data in ML.NET.
Code – https://github.com/jwood803/MLNetExamples/blob/master/MLNetExamples/NGrams/Program.cs
N-Gram article – https://blog.xrds.acm.org/2017/10/introduction-n-grams-need/
Leila Gharani shows you how you can create MULTIPLE dependent data validation lists in Excel on the SAME sheet. In this video I’ll show you a solution that requires ONE single formula. This formula also excludes blank cells on the bottom of the data validation list.
Ryan Cunningham, the master of (all) Power Apps, has an in depth discussion on what is at the heart of solving customer problems and how Power Apps, together with all the technologies within the Power Platform, achieves this.
Ryan is the Product Lead for Power Apps and has been around since the beginning of the product. He has also been a champion in the community and at the center of it’s growth over these past three years, supporting and elevating those within the community to achieve more.
Learn more about Ryan here https://www.linkedin.com/in/rycu/
To learn more, visit: https://aka.ms/LessCodeMorePowerDocs
Event Grid on IoT Edge brings the power and flexibility of Azure Event Grid’s PubSub capabilities to the edge.
Create topics, publish events, and subscribe multiple destinations whether they’re modules on the same IoT Edge device, other edge devices, or services in the cloud.
Event Grid on IoT Edge allows you to take event driven programming anywhere.
Learn more reading the documentation: https://aka.ms/iotshow/eventgridoniotedge
It’s Okay To Be Smart explains how and why soap is still our best germ fighter.
One of the most effective things you can do to protect yourself from catching a germ and becoming a statistic, whether it’s a global pandemic like COVID-19 or just every single other day of your life, is something that people have been trying to get you to do since you were like 2.
Wash your hands. With good ol’ soap. And do it the right way. That’s it.
Here’s the science of handwashing!
Lex Fridman interviews Nick Bostrom.
Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at University of Oxford and the director of the Future of Humanity Institute. He has worked on fascinating and important ideas in existential risks, simulation hypothesis, human enhancement ethics, and the risks of superintelligent AI systems, including in his book Superintelligence. I can see talking to Nick multiple times on this podcast, many hours each time, but we have to start somewhere. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.
Time Index:
- 0:00 – Introduction
- 2:48 – Simulation hypothesis and simulation argument
- 12:17 – Technologically mature civilizations
- 15:30 – Case 1: if something kills all possible civilizations
- 19:08 – Case 2: if we lose interest in creating simulations
- 22:03 – Consciousness
- 26:27 – Immersive worlds
- 28:50 – Experience machine
- 41:10 – Intelligence and consciousness
- 48:58 – Weighing probabilities of the simulation argument
- 1:01:43 – Elaborating on Joe Rogan conversation
- 1:05:53 – Doomsday argument and anthropic reasoning
- 1:23:02 – Elon Musk
- 1:25:26 – What’s outside the simulation?
- 1:29:52 – Superintelligence
- 1:47:27 – AGI utopia
- 1:52:41 – Meaning of life
Business Insider explains why we may get a Coronavirus vaccine sooner rather than later.
More than 40 vaccines are being developed to combat the coronavirus, according to the World Health Organization. Here are some companies that are beginning or have started clinical trials with a vaccine candidate.
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