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New Nissan Skyline-Hybrid, (Infiniti Q50) Released in Japan

2019-07-16T04:27:00.000-07:00

New Nissan Skyline-Hybrid has been released along side the gasoline only version.
The first ever car I owned in Japan was a Skyline. Once a bicycle cop followed me and gave me a ticket for speeding I asked him "If I was speeding, how could you catch me?" He kept offering me the ticket "Hai Dozo"(Yes-go-ahead).

The hybrid version of the new Skyline, available in two- and four-wheel drive versions, will include Nissan’s latest version of ProPilot as a standard feature. The autonomous technology offers lane-changing and driver-monitoring functions. A mobile connection will let an operator contact occupants, as well as offer updated maps and in-car Wi-Fi.

In an attempt to capture some of the magic of the GT-R, which was spawned from earlier versions of the Skyline, the new sedan has a front grille that resembles the front of Nissan’s iconic sports car. Additionally, the gas-only Skyline features Nissan’s 3.0-liter V6 twin-turbo engine, with a tuned version capable of 400 horsepower.
Outside of Japan, the Skyline is sold as the Infiniti Q50 and competes with sedans by Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz and BMW AG. The cars will sell for between about ¥5.5 million ($50930) to ¥6.3 million($58338), depending on the model.
via Japan Times

The New AI Universe Simulator, "It's like teaching image recognition software with lots of pictures of cats and dogs,

2019-06-27T03:45:00.005-07:00

but then it's able to recognize elephants, Nobody knows how it does this, and it's a great mystery to be solved." says study co-author Shirley Ho, a group leader at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics in New York City and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
Ho and her colleagues presented D³M on June 24 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study was led by Siyu He, a Flatiron Institute research analyst. Ho and He worked in collaboration with Yin Li of the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe near Tokyo; Yu Feng of the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics; Wei Chen of the Flatiron Institute; Siamak Ravanbakhsh of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver; and Barnabás Póczos of Carnegie Mellon University.
Ho, He and their colleagues honed the deep neural network that powers D³M by feeding it 8,000 different simulations from one of the highest-accuracy models available. Neural networks take training data and run calculations on the information; researchers then compare the resulting outcome with the expected outcome. With further training, neural networks adapt over time to yield faster and more accurate results.
"We can be an interesting playground for a machine learner to use to see why this model extrapolates so well, why it extrapolates to elephants instead of just recognizing cats and dogs, It's a two-way street between science and deep learning." Ho continued.
The paper could be found here at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Read more at PHYS.ORG

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Hot Off the Oven, Yum like any other PI

2019-06-24T03:19:00.000-07:00

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

Here are the highlights:

A 1.5GHz quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 CPU (~3× performance)
1GB, 2GB, or 4GB of LPDDR4 SDRAM
Full-throughput Gigabit Ethernet
Dual-band 802.11ac wireless networking
Bluetooth 5.0
Two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports
Dual monitor support, at resolutions up to 4K
VideoCore VI graphics, supporting OpenGL ES 3.x
4Kp60 hardware decode of HEVC video
Complete compatibility with earlier Raspberry Pi products
To support Raspberry Pi 4, we are shipping a radically overhauled operating system, based on the forthcoming Debian 10 Buster release.
All-new two-part RasPI 4 case
Low-cost USB-C power supply with 5V/3ARaspberry Pi 4 micro HDMI Cables
Raspberry Pi 4 micro HDMI Cables capable 6Gbps data rate needed for 4Kp60 video

Also there is a Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit, bringing all of this together, we’re offering a complete Desktop Kit. This is priced at $120, and comprises:

A 4GB Raspberry Pi 4
An official case
An official PSU
An official mouse and keyboard
A pair of HDMI cables
A copy of the updated Beginner’s Guide
A pre-installed 32GB microSD card