Japanese exports in electronic parts and components dramatically fell in value after the Global Crisis and have not recovered until today. This column investigates why Japan lost this comparative advantage. It argues that capital inflows seeking safe havens…

At this week’s Xilinx Developers Forum (XDF) in San Jose, California, Xilinx announced “Vitis” - a new framework for developing applications that use Xilinx programmable logic devices such as FPGAs, ACAPs, MPSoCs, RFSoCs, and all the other acronyms they can…

Nominations for fields that are not being researched as much as they should be

People often make several complaints about how employment works at startups:
They don’t pay well. They claim to make up the difference with stock options, but the options are worthless and you can earn more by working for a big stable company.
They prey on…

Having struggled to nurture tech giants of its own, Malaysia is turning its attention to funding the region’s start-ups instead.

The judge gave a speech calling for a fairer judiciary before shooting himself in the chest.

In the previous article in this series we distinguished between two kinds of unsupervised learning (cluster analysis and dimensionality reduction) and discussed the former in some detail. In this …

Auto-assembly workers are in a difficult position — fewer of them will be needed.

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In 2020-21, we celebrate that many of the basic ideas behind the Deep Learning Revolution were published three decades ago within fewer than 12 months in our "Annus Mirabilis" 1990-91

We compared students’ self-reported perception of learning with their actual learning under controlled conditions in large-enrollment introductory ...

Physically fit young adults have healthier white matter in their brains and better thinking skills than young people who are out of shape.

The university has prohibited its scramble band, often irreverent and sometimes funny, from performing at athletic events, and plans to form a more traditional band after the football season.

Researchers at Google’s security group Project Zero have found an active vulnerability in Android that affects several popular devices including the Pixel 2, Huawei P20 Pro, and Xiaomi Redmi Note 5. A post from the security group suggests it found the bug…

The classroom guards, symbolic armbands and secret salutes carried out by members of an elite student movement at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto may have ended decades ago, but that brief, ominous week in April 1967 when a history lesson took an unexpected…

Dear new developer, I suggest that the first job you take be the one with the highest learning potential, not the highest earning potential. (This post contrasts the two, in the context of entrepre…

A 2017 cartoon from this post. After the embargo update (Oct 25): Now that I have some answers from the people involved let me make a quick update: 1) I still find the paper  unconvincing, specific…