With its Alpha series of game-playing AIs, Google’s DeepMind group seemed to have found a way for its AIs to tackle any game, mastering games like chess and Go by repeatedly playing itself during ...

David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

The students in Bostian Elementary School science teacher Brandy Hunt’s class got a hands-on lesson about what happens after they eat a meal. “This activity was a review, a hands-on activity at the ...

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A new technical paper titled “Massively parallel and universal approximation of nonlinear functions using diffractive processors” was published by researchers at UCLA. “Nonlinear computation is ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed an optical computing framework that performs large-scale nonlinear computations using linear materials. Reported in ...

NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT, announced that its Physics and Informatics (PHI) Lab, working with Cornell University and Stanford University, has developed the world's first programmable ...

BMW’s diminutive X3 has long been one of my favorite picks from among the growing number of premium-level sport-utility/crossover vehicles. Thanks to its lighter curb weight and compact proportions, ...

Local Tallahassee pottery maker, Jasmine Summer, describes her experience as a potter by saying, "I put the fun in functional." As a maker of cups, mugs, bowls, planters, and plates, she says of her ...

Activation functions play a critical role in AI inference, helping to ferret out nonlinear behaviors in AI models. This makes them an integral part of any neural network, but nonlinear functions can ...