By now, most people know of the infamous match between IBM’s Deep Blue and grandmaster Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest player ever, in 1997. Kasparov lost, and now, over 20 years later, we have another AI, built by Deepmind, Alpha Zero. …

Insults, everyone’s been on the receiving end of them, and more likely than not it’s been on the internet. It’s easy to sit behind a name and say awful things to other people. Reading these comments ruins your day and social media has been directly linked to increased depression in…

From diagnosing cancer to Amazon recommendations to playing the ancient game Go, convolutional neural networks(CNN’s) are some of the most versatile forms of AI. So, how do they work? CNN’s are world-class at image classification, whether it be finding patterns in images or classifying different pictures.

What makes a CNN different?

CNN’s differ from regular…

This past week, I was given the unreal opportunity to attend the MIT Tough Tech Summit with some world-class speakers, but what makes a conference successful for you? First off, you have to prep! You wouldn’t walk into the SAT not studying, would you? …

An intro to fusion and how it works

Everyone knows the effect of burning fossil fuels, and what it does to the atmosphere. Scientists have come up with renewable energy sources like solar panels, hydroelectricity, wind turbines, etc. While these solutions are all great, they are currently too inefficient to power the whole globe. Fusion energy, the process…

Only 71% of the total land surface on the Earth is habitable, of that, half is used for agriculture. 77% of that land is used to raise livestock. Oddly enough, of our protein supply, meat and dairy only accounts for 33%. And yet, global meat demand has only been going…