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The AI Bill of Rights, bias, and operational challenges amid tightening budgets are pressing issues affecting the adoption of ML as well as project and initiative success, according to Comet. “Our latest survey comes as ML practitioners are facing a ne… Continue reading ML practitioners push for mandatory AI Bill of Rights
Comet released Kangas, an open-source smart data exploration, analysis and model debugging tool for machine learning. Kangas, available on GitHub, helps users understand and debug their data in a new and highly intuitive way. With Kangas, visualization… Continue reading Open source tool puts machine learning dataset analysis at data scientists’ fingertips
Wait, what? Is it possible that a tech company just killed off a product with a huge installed base of hardware and a community of dedicated users, and it wasn’t …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 24, 2022
In his new book, Dr. Avi Loeb argues ‘Oumuamua, which passed by Earth in 2017, wasn’t a comet but rather alien technology. Continue reading Harvard’s Top Astronomer Believes Aliens Tried to Contact Us in 2017
By now you’ve heard of NEOWISE, the most spectacular comet to visit our little corner of the galaxy since Hale-Bopp passed through over 20 years ago. But we’re willing to bet you haven’t actually seen it with your own eyes. That’s because up until now, the only way to view …read more
Continue reading Don’t Wait, You Need to See Comet NEOWISE Right Now
A letter from Harvard University scholars asserts that the blunt-shaped ‘Oumuamua object may be an alien probe, but the scientists who rolled the spliff are killing the buzz. Continue reading Scientists Who Discovered Blunt-Shaped Asteroid Say It Is Almost Definitely Not Aliens
On an October night in 1847, a telescope on the roof of the Pacific National Bank building on Nantucket Island was trained onto the deep black sky. At the eyepiece was an accomplished amateur astronomer on the verge of a major discovery — a new comet, one not recorded in any almanac. The comet, which we today know by the dry designator C/1847 T1, is more popularly known as “Miss Mitchell’s Comet,” named after its discoverer, a 29-year old woman named Maria Mitchell. The discovery of the comet would, after a fashion, secure her reputation as a scholar and a …read more
Continue reading Maria Mitchell: The First Woman Astronomy Professor
Why that’s actually not good news for astrobiologists looking for extraterrestrial life. Continue reading Compound Associated With Life Found in Two Very Different Locations in Space
The birth of a new field of astronomy, the death of a lonely comet orbiter, and everything in between. Continue reading From Planet Nine to Proxima b, 2016 Was a Wild Year for Space
Last week, the Rosetta spacecraft crashed into comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after orbiting it since 2014. It was supposed to do that: the mission was at an end, and the mission designers wanted to end it by getting a close look at the surface of the comet. But this raises an interesting problem: how do you get a device that is designed to never stop to actually stop?
A spacecraft like Rosetta is built from the ground up to keep going, to reboot and go into a backup mode, phone home and wait for instructions if it encounters a problem. This is …read more
