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talligan t1_j98io1m wrote
Reply to comment by pshawSounds in MIT researchers makes self-drive car AI significantly more accurate: “Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm’s nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability by lughnasadh
So it sounds like they added an extra fitting parameter
talligan t1_j31avri wrote
Reply to John Snow's 1854 cholera map of London that changed epidemiology forever; showing cases concentrated around the Broad Street water pump by wolfden1130
I'm a contaminant hydrogeologist and this was one of the first ever cases linking water contamination of microbes (though they didn't know this at the time) with illness. He's also considered the father of epidemiology.
There's a great book on the story: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map
talligan t1_j2wu7nb wrote
Reply to comment by ThatDismalGiraffe in This morning in Edinburgh by persianprez
Don't worry most of the city looks like depressing shitty brushed concrete buildings from the 70s.
Source: I live here
talligan t1_iv82ix2 wrote
Reply to comment by thehourglasses in Researchers designed a transparent window coating that could lower the temperature inside buildings, without expending a single watt of energy. This cooler may lead to an annual energy saving of up to 86.3 MJ/m² or 24 kWh/m² in hot climates by mossadnik
They didn't make it, it was a simulation study.
talligan t1_itw4brt wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Vitamin D deficiency linked to premature death. Over a 14-year follow up period, researchers found that the risk for death significantly decreased with increased vitamin D concentrations, with the strongest effects seen among those with severe deficiencies. by Wagamaga
They died at like age 30
talligan t1_j9jry1x wrote
Reply to comment by beatbonks in PsBattle: European Robin by My_Bird_Buddy
Given how closely Dino's and birds are related this might not be far off