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Supercharge your games with Azure AI and reinforcement learning
Azure offers a full range of AI solutions to help you build, run and grow your games. AI and machine learning can help accelerate game development by providing more realistic worlds and challenges as well as support automation and live…
Trustworthy data and analyses are key to making sound business decisions, particularly when it comes to AB testing. Ignoring data quality issues or biases introduced through design and interpretations risks leading to incorrect conclusions that could hurt your product. In…
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Microsoft’s plan to scrub carbon out of the atmosphere? Quantum computers
Quantum computers promise to be game-changers in fields where there are enormously complex calculations to be carried out. Hoping to use quantum computing to address one of humanity’s biggest problems — climate change — investigators from Microsoft Research and ETH…
State-of-the-art algorithm accelerates path for quantum computers to address climate change
| Matthias Troyer
While there has been a focus in the quantum computing industry on growing the number of qubits in a quantum computer, the reality is there are many important factors when building an overall system to bring quantum solutions to fruition.…
Students of all ages struggle to understand various math concepts. So, as part of a larger effort across multiple product teams at Microsoft, the Math team has created several tools to help every classroom become more inclusive and to make…
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Project Freta: Microsoft’s Cloud-based Memory Analysis Engine
Ah, the sweet days of running your memory sample through volatility. It’s not over yet — but Microsoft has done an amazing job at releasing a new service, which can perform a full-blown volatile memory analysis of a Linux system,…
Researchers use a strand-displacing DNA polymerase to do biocomputing
| Shalin Shah and Yuan-Jyue Chen
All around us, biochemical systems are regulating a variety of natural processes, from our body’s ability to protect our skin through the timely production of melanin to plants’ ability to convert carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and oxygen using sunlight. Replicating…
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The first 200 days of COVID-19
A Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, once said, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it [1]. Santayana forgot to mention that those that do remember are condemned to watch others repeat it.
In the news | Machine Learning (Theory)
HOMER: Provable Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
Last week at ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff, Akshay Krishnamurthy, John Langford and Dipendra Misra had a paper on a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm that solves three key problems in RL: (i) global exploration, (ii) decoding latent dynamics, and (iii) optimizing a given…