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Re:Scientists Prolong Life of Mice with Invisible Energy Fields, New S... on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:18PM (#48097797)
To do so, they genetically engineered aged mice to activate cellular reprogramming genes in response to EMFs. They applied the EMFs cyclically to induce cyclic cellular reprogramming

Sounds less magical…

Re:Apple: Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Genera... on Sunday April 05, 2026 @07:55AM (#47648442)
Embedding „meaning“ in vector spaces goes back to 1950s structuralist linguistics and early information retrieval research, there is a nice overview in the draft for the 3rd edition of speech and language processing https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/5.pdf
Re:Munich from a Hamburger's Perspective on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @12:35PM (#44311320)
Munich/Bavaria were not ruled by the Habsburgs, unless you want to count the whole Holy Roman Empire.
Re:Ryzen Boards Reign at Embedded World 2018 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:52PM (#16478324)
Depends on how many people know about it and might interprete it as some kind of association. I would be sceptical to use 88 as a designation, at least in Germany. See 4 or 13 for numbers avoided in other cultures (for non-political reasons).
Re:Fructan, not gluten, induces symptoms in patients with gluten sensi... on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:13AM (#15702482)
Why should organic products not contain gluten?
Re:Word vectors are awesome but you don’t need a neural network to fin... on Thursday October 19, 2017 @09:34AM (#15507703)
Baroni published on using a word-word-link (e.g., object-of) tensor instead of the more common word-word matrices: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/coli_a_00016
Re:Word vectors are awesome but you don’t need a neural network to fin... on Thursday October 19, 2017 @03:40AM (#15506106)
One argument for SVD is the low reliability (as in results fluctuate with repeated experiments) of word2vec embeddings, which hampers (qualitative) interpretation of the resulting embedding spaces, see: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C/C16/C16-1262.pdf
Re:Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @08:32AM (#15237636)
Polls show over 40% in the US to believe in creationism http://www.gallup.com/poll/170822/believe-creationist-view-h...

Also religion is not only concerned with what happened, yet often very active in prescribing what has to happen: abortion, divorce, homosexuality,...

Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:13PM (#13987668)
The alternative of competing nation states lead to two world wars. Even a less than perfect EU seems far preferable to a third one.
Re:Machine Learning: A Summary on Feature Engineering Using R Language on Saturday March 25, 2017 @02:57AM (#13954436)
A colleague of mine is quite happy using caret for streamlined feature selection http://topepo.github.io/caret/index.html
Re:Vipers, mambas and taipans: the escalating health crisis over snake... on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @12:19AM (#12395997)
So why is no African government / company stepping in to produce antivenoms, if the technology is supposed to be 80 years old and rather basic?
Re:How the Arab World Came Apart on Thursday August 11, 2016 @08:22AM (#12267602)
Similar punishments are prescribed by the Old Testament, so not specific to Islam. Luckily religion was replaced as a moral and especially legal guideline in "the West" thanks to the Enlightenment and the French revolution.
Re:Implementation of various string similarity and distance algorithms... on Saturday August 06, 2016 @04:30PM (#12239758)
Am I missing something? I regularly write static methods and test them with JUnit.
Re:Inuit Study Adds Twist to Omega-3 Fatty Acids’ Health Story on Sunday September 20, 2015 @01:17PM (#10248238)
Our ability to change our environment is limited and was even more limited in the past.

• Look at infectious diseases killing those without inborne resistance and you see humans evolving just fine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease

• Also changing your environment, e.g. by starting to herd animals can jumpstart evolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence

Re:Reykjavik Center Map on Monday August 03, 2015 @04:20AM (#9994404)
I didn't get the hype about their soup, yet can recommend the whale steak.
Re:How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:07PM (#9970443)
I wonder if they use some kind of (neural) language model for their translations. Using only a dictionary (as in the text) would be about 60 years behind the state of the art...
Re:Using Neural Networks With Regression on Sunday July 26, 2015 @02:20AM (#9950347)
With no ill intent: I'm a bit skeptical about software quality / test coverage after finding a bug in the linear algebra implementation - I would not use it for production right now.
Re:New monitoring powers 'to tackle terrorism' proposed on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:25AM (#9611520)
I thought it was more fear because control...
Re:LG: “Apple has also announced that they will release the iMac 8K” on Monday April 06, 2015 @07:50AM (#9327585)
It's from 2014 and the launch was supposed to happen 'later this year'.

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