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The Eberly College of Arts and Sciences will host “Machine Learning in Social Science Research” at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in Mountainlair Gluck Theatre. The guest lecturer is Susumu Shikano, professor of political methodology at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
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2 years ago Read more at WVU ENews

Luis Wenus, an entrepreneur and engineer, incorporated AI and facial recognition into the small drone so it could chase people around. It only takes a few hours to configure a small, commercially available drone to hunt down a target by itself, he wrote in a post on March 2 on X, formerly known as Twitter. He soon realized it could easily be configured to contain an explosive payload.
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2 years ago Read more at Livescience.com

Cree Carole has nearly 16,000 followers on his TikTok channel. When he's not busy making science videos, Cree likes to visit Philadelphia's museums. It’s about time to watch on your time.
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2 years ago Read more at TMJ4 News

Scientists have to vote on whether the term “epoch” applies. It’s a deeply political fight over how to make meaning of what we humans are doing to the planet. In 2009, they started scouring the planet and found a range of strong candidates, from a peat bog in Poland to a coral reef in Australia.
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2 years ago Read more at Vox.com

Each weekday, your host, Ray Hamel, concocts a challenging set of unique questions on a specific topic. At the end of the quiz, you’ll be able to compare your score with that of the average contestant, and Slate Plus members can see how they stack up on our leaderboard.
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2 years ago Read more at Slate

Each weekday, your host, Ray Hamel, concocts a challenging set of unique questions on a specific topic. At the end of the quiz, you’ll be able to compare your score with that of the average contestant, and Slate Plus members can see how they stack up on our leaderboard.
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2 years ago Read more at Slate

“Science is critical for democracy,” says Paul Nurse, co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. He said science is increasingly influencing society and that this means “we have to produce democratic institutions and ways of working that can accommodate and take on board the complexities of science” Feringa said crucial elements of democracy “are freedom and asking questions and being critical. And this is exactly what science does”
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2 years ago Read more at Research Professional News

Shuhao Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University and Los Alamos National Laboratory have used machine learning to create a model that can simulate reactive processes in a diverse set of organic materials and conditions. This new general machine learning interatomic potential (ANI-1xnr) can perform simulations for arbitrary materials containing the elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen.
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2 years ago Read more at Phys.org

Students learn from testing and retesting, especially if they receive corrective feedback that focuses on processes and concepts. The feedback and feedback also provided tutored students with more instructional time than the students receiving whole-class instruction. But not all tutoring is like that, and some of what passes for tutoring today is much worse than what my father received in 1945.
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2 years ago Read more at EducationNext

SpaceX Launches Astronauts to the International Space Station 0:40 Vulcan Rocket Lifts Off for the Moon 1:06 SpaceX Starship Launch Ends in Explosion 1:55 SpaceX Space Capsule Brings NASA’s First Asteroid Samples to Earth. Northern Lights Shine Over U.S. and Canada.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times