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A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

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The other would show the Ptolemaic, or geocentric, sky, with the viewer fully immersed in the view, as if standing on the surface of the Earth, seemingly at the center of the universe. World War I interrupted the work, but by 1920 Bauersfeld was back at it. At the suggestion of his boss, Rudolf Straubel , he added stars.

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Satellite Data, Bushfires and AI: Safeguarding Wine Industry Amidst Climate Challenges

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THE CLIMATE CHALLENGE: THE INTERSECTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND WINE PRODUCTION Ranked as the 5th largest global wine exporter, Australia holds a prominent place in the world of wine. Beyond the vineyards that are directly impacted by flames, the danger comes as well from smoke emanating from nearby blazes.

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10 Best Data Science Movies you need to Watch!

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The Matrix is mainly a world simulated for creating and controlling machines, which use data and algorithms to maintain the illusion of reality. Caleb is tasked with performing the Turing Test on an advanced humanoid AI named Ava, played by Alicia Vikander, to determine if she exhibits human-like intelligence.

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Differentially private clustering for large-scale datasets

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A well known example of hierarchical clustering is the phylogenetic tree in biology in which all life on Earth is partitioned into finer and finer groups (e.g., Vaccination search insights via DP clustering We then apply these advances in differentially private clustering to real-world applications.

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Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds

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AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world ? And the result is that we can begin to build up intuition about what the worlds of different—and alien—minds can be like. It’s an old and oft-debated question in philosophy. Generating Images with AIs How does an AI manage to create a picture, say of a cat in a party hat?

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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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Back then I definitely hadn’t internalized it, but I think what was so exciting that day was that I got a first taste of the idea that one didn’t have to be told how the world works; one could just figure it out: I didn’t yet understand quite a bit of the math in the book.