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Improving the pace of vaccine distribution through technology
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted our health, economy, and psychosocial well-being. Public health mitigation measures such as wearing masks, social distancing, avoiding large gatherings, and washing hands have demonstrated benefit in curbing the spread of infection, but have been…
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This AI chess engine aims to help human players rather than defeat them
Maia's algorithms find mistakes that players should work on. Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15…
Introduction Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an exciting field which facilitates the automatic design of deep networks. It has achieved state-of-the-art performance on a variety of tasks, surpassing manually designed counterparts [e.g., 1–3]. Recently, one-shot NAS methods became popular due…
Editor’s note: AI programming is one of the great expectations that people have for artificial intelligence. Although current AI programming technology has benefitted many ordinary users who do not know how to program, it still has a long way to…
“The world runs on software” —— Our modern life relies on diverse software systems, which provide services including search, shopping, chatting, recommendation, and so on. As user requirements and scenarios increase, these systems continuously grow in scale and complexity over…
While heuristic evaluations are less expensive, they’re typically not as exciting to run as usability studies or interviews, and they don’t produce convincing videos for stakeholders. So, how can we raise the stakes for heuristic evaluations and when should we?
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Researchers built an AI that plays chess like a person, not a super computer
They trained Maia on millions of online games played by humans. We mere mortals haven't truly been competitive against artificial intelligence in chess in a long time. It's been 15 years since a human has conquered a computer in a…
Trustworthy data and analyses are key to making sound business decisions, particularly when it comes to A/B testing. Ignoring data quality issues or biases introduced through design and interpretations risks leading to incorrect conclusions that could hurt your product. In…
LAMBDA: The ultimate Excel worksheet function
| Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones
Ever since it was released in the 1980s, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the millions of people who use it each day. It’s also the world’s most…