Developing Algorithms

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Monero [XMR]’s hashrate witnesses a massive breakdown

AMB Crypto 19 Aug 2018

Source. Bitinfocharts ... To prevent such resistance, Monero implemented a new strategy referred to as an AAHF (Anti-ASIC Hard Fork), this changes the mining algorithm on a blockchain so that ASICS tailored to the old algorithm can no longer mine effectively ... I’ve said many times that GPU miners have the upper hand against ASICs because they can adapt to any new algorithm. ASICs need to start over the development process ... loading .......

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French farm aims to grow new crop of farmers

PhysOrg 19 Aug 2018

They bandy about terms like "co-working" but instead of coding and developing algorithms in open space offices they work out in the open trying to tease tomatoes from the soil ... ....

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Birth control app highlights emerging health tech market

SCNOW Morning News 19 Aug 2018

LONDON — The condom, the pill and now, the smartphone? ... Women take their temperatures and track their menstrual cycle on the app, which uses an algorithm to determine when they're fertile and should abstain from unprotected sex or use protection ... They pivoted from science to startups when they wrote the algorithm to help them have a baby and then developed an app to tap broader demand ... .......

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Artificial intelligence is coming for hiring

The Keene Sentinel 18 Aug 2018

"Identifying high-potential candidates is very subjective," said Alan Todd, CEO of CorpU, a technology platform for leadership development ... Stella IO's algorithm only assesses candidates based on skills, for example, said founder Rich Joffe. "The algorithm is only allowed to match based on the data we tell it to look at ... AI is also being used to help develop internal talent....

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Meet the personal stylists who are training bots to be personal stylists

Hickory Record 18 Aug 2018

The technology, which has been years in the making, is just one example of the extremes that retailers are going to as they try to build computer algorithms that can intuit the intangibles of fashion ... The company’s researchers have also developed an algorithm that analyzes images of clothing and then designs similar items, according to an MIT Technology Review report....

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Politicians are hiring 'neuroconsultants' to study the brains of voters and influence voting decisions

Business Insider 18 Aug 2018

While it's not clear how effective they were, the company's algorithms may have helped fuel Donald Trump's come-from-behind victory in 2016 ... "We have developed algorithms to read the microexpressions in the face and translate in real time the emotions people are feeling," Pocovi says ... ERL's software is built around the facial action coding system (FACS) developed by Paul Ekman, a famed American psychologist....

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Birth control app highlights budding health tech market

Deccan Chronicle 18 Aug 2018

The condom, the pill and now, the smartphone? ... Women take their temperatures and track their menstrual cycle on the app, which uses an algorithm to determine when they’re fertile and should abstain from unprotected sex or use protection ...   ... They pivoted from science to startups when they wrote the algorithm to help them have a baby and then developed an app to tap broader demand ... Follow us on Facebook, Twitter. end-of. ....

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UIDAI now for face recognition technology

Deccan Chronicle 18 Aug 2018

  ... The company called upon thoughtful government regulation and for the development of norms around acceptable uses. However, the data protection law is still draft stage and there is no concrete law developed on facial recognition. . Furthermore, Amazon’s facial recognition algorithm matched 28 members of Congress to criminal mugshots in July ... end-of. ....

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The future of diamonds? PURE DIAMOND enters market with revolutionary technology

AMB Crypto 18 Aug 2018

Moreover, the team aims to develop applications that enable verification of the PURE DIAMOND product and PURE DIAMOND COIN ... The team also had the freedom to develop and build an original recognition algorithm that will calculate a physical amount of PURE DIAMOND in existence, and assign value to them based on a variety of factors....

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Should data scientists using R and Python switch over to Julia?

Quartz 17 Aug 2018

Last week, the lead developers behind the open source programming language Julia announced the 1.0 release of their project ... Shah says that the key inspiration for developing Julia was seeing how many people had to write the same program twice. Data scientists would first use a tool like Python or R to develop an algorithm, because it was easy to explore the data and make charts in those languages....

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Using AI to find out what characters in novels look like

The Hindu 17 Aug 2018

In a casual conversation about the recent developments in ... “Can AI do something for me?” An avid reader, she wanted to know whether her son — an AI engineer at Mobiliya — could develop an algorithm that could generate images of people based on their descriptions in novels....

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Drones fly to rescue of Amazon wildlife

The Jakarta Post 17 Aug 2018

During flood season, the Mamiraua Sustainable Development Reserve -- located 500 kilometers (310 miles) from the Amazonas state capital Manaus -- fills with water ... But the surprising noise was something else ... Some of the research will be sent to the University of Liverpool in association with WWF-Brazil, with hopes of developing an algorithm that will allow scientists to identify every one of the dolphins during their observations ... ....

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Birth control: The condom, the pill and now, the smartphone?

TVNZ 17 Aug 2018

Source. 1 NEWS. Women take their temperatures and track their menstrual cycle on the app, which uses an algorithm to determine when they're fertile and should abstain from unprotected sex or use protection. In effect, it's a form of the rhythm or calendar method ... They pivoted from science to startups when they wrote the algorithm to help them have a baby and then developed an app to tap broader demand ... ....

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