There are some examples of how biased can Artificial Intelligence be. In examples like this, predicting text may lead to surprisingly different results for similar initial words: He is a doctorShe is a nurse We can see that using gender-specific words can impact the results of AI really hard. But artificial intelligence isn’t entirely evil […]
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Shakespeare once talked to us about the importance of sleep in our brain’s maintenance and health through a Macbeth’s speech: Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care, the death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, chief nourisher in life’s feast. Shakespeare was an enthusiast of neurology
Macbeth lamenting his insomnia and the brain Read More »
It usually happens to me that, when I spend hours trying to understand or solve some problem, at a certain point I start feeling very tired and block, and the more time I spend, the less fluent my thinking is and the most stuck in the problem I am. This has been quite a difficult
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When I’m diving into an application of some knowledge for the first time —say programming a theoretical model seen in a book— I may feel insecure. Maybe I have read a lot about the model and I’ve reached a good level of understanding about it and I’m ready to apply the knowledge. Maybe I have
Overlearning, Imposter Syndrome and the Ultimate Procrastination Read More »
Sometimes you have to do something that causes you unease. At that moment, you look around hoping that something more doable pops out so you can draw your attention from the important task. Of course, you always find something “better” to do and quickly switch to this other mundane task that seems more pleasant. This
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Most of what shines in the sky exists far away as a strange state called plasma. Plasma is what teachers probably mentioned to you at some point in a sciences lesson, after enumerating the states of matter: solid, liquid, gas and… plasma. Also, maybe, they did not give much further explanation on this topic and
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You may have heard about some people working on a new energy source which claims to be the future of humanity: nuclear fusion. But, did you know that fusion reactions can be of many types? Why people working in this field talk about the deuterium-tritium reaction only? To build a small sun on Earth has