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Fusion's Dark Horses, Episode II

Sep 26, 2019

In this double-header, we examine the various startups that are trying to make commercial nuclear fusion a reality. What technologies are they using? Who's backing them? And do any of them have a prayer of beating ITER to the punch?

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Nuclear Fusion: Fusion's Dark Horses, I

Sep 13, 2019

In this double-header, we examine the various startups that are trying to make commercial nuclear fusion a reality. What technologies are they using? Who's backing them? And do any of them have a prayer of beating ITER to the punch?

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TT: What Can Four-Year-Olds Do that AI Can't?

Sep 5, 2019

What Can Four-Year-Olds Do that AI Can't?

==> Children are the greatest learners on the planet. As machine learning comes more and more into focus, and ambitious AI types are aiming to simulate the human brain in its entirety, there is a question to ask: how can our machine-learning algorithms learn from the curiosity...

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