Open thread, Jul. 11 - Jul. 17, 2016

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"In deep learning, architecture engineering is the new feature engineering"

Trying to set algo's so they are not limited sets of the developers, or the databases.

An AI was used to optimize and align a set of lasers used to produce BoseEinstein Condensates, and optimized the problem in one hour.

"Fast machine-learning online optimization of ultra-cold-atom experiments"

SETI research organizational optimization, and examining the definitions of what alien life actually is

Alien Mindscapes—A Perspective on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

a nice little writeup on using SQL

and a free, and large book on maths- warning PDF alert

www3.nd.edu/~powers/ame.60611/M.pdf