Linkblog

Posted on November 3, 2019 by jjn1

• How Trump Reshaped the Presidency in Over 11,000 Tweets Funny what you can do with 140 characters.
• Russia just brought in a law to try to disconnect its internet from the rest of the world ‘Balkanisation’ gathers pace.
• MIT president acknowledges women, minorities on campus feel belittled, excluded Boston Globe report. The surprising thing is that anyone who knows MIT would be surprised.
• Newton vs the machine: solving the chaotic three-body problem using deep neural networks Since Newton’s time the problem of solving the equations of motion for three bodies under their own gravitational force has remained practically unsolved, and even partial solutions require massive brute-force computing. But four researchers at the University of Edinburgh have trained a neural network which provides accurate solutions at a fixed computational cost and up to 100 million times faster than a state-of-the-art conventional solver. Interesting because it suggests a novel way of using machine learning.