STARSHIP’S THIRTEENTH FLIGHT TEST

According to many true-believers, the biggest promise of AI is its potential to accelerate scientific discovery; once-in-a-generation breakthroughs could one day become routine, thanks to algorithms. By extracting patterns from troves of data far too vast for any human mind to fathom, so the thinking goes, AI scientists could eventually help solve some of humanity’s…

We all know that humans have five senses. But a growing body of research shows we have a sixth one that almost nobody talks about – and it may be just as important for our wellbeing as any of the others. It’s called interoception: the body’s ability to sense and interpret its own internal signals….

After a long time of work, I'm making my master's thesis project public: a CUDA-accelerated numerical relativity raytracer for Schwarzschild black holes that compares seven different integration methods, including two novel integrators I derived specifically for this problem. My thesis was inspired by some of the results in the Nasa, Orbits, Flight Book 1963 What…

A SpaceX rocket just inched closer to the record books. A Falcon 9 vehicle lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California tonight (July 10) at 11:01 p.m. EDT (8:01 p.m. local time; 0301 GMT on July 11), carrying 29 of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites toward low Earth orbit (LEO). It was the 35th…

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Quantum computing and AI may one day work together NESPIX/Shutterstock Quantum computers might eventually be able to handle some AI applications that currently require huge amounts of conventional computing power. Such a development would be a major boost to machine learning and similar artificial intelligence algorithms. Quantum computers hold the promise of eventually being able…