The 19-year-old from Pennsylvania is already a millionaire pro-soccer player in Germany, but his U.S. coach says he could be the sport’s “first American superstar”
Dalvin Cook walked off the field and headed to the Minnesota Vikings’ locker room with a noticeable limp in his step and a look of frustration on his face.
The rookie running back suffered a noncontact knee injury early in the third quarter Sunday against the Detroit Lions, and Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said the team is concerned Cook may have injured his ACL. Cook is set to have an MRI on Monday. He took a carry up the middle for 10 yards, and upon cutting to his right to avoid Lions safety Tavon Wilson, he reached for his left knee and fumbled.
… Hoiberg, a career 39.6 percent marksman from beyond the arc, knows shooting.
His latest project is second-year guard Kris Dunn, but it’s not necessarily for long-range shooting. It’s simply for fixing a jumper that looked broken at times in Dunn’s underwhelming rookie season in which he shot 37.7 percent overall and 28.8 percent from 3-point range.
“I think Fred is doing an unbelievable job with me,” Dunn said. “He’s helping me with the fundamentals. The big thing is being confident when I shoot. That’s what he’s trying to instill.
Chicago Tribune, Highland Park News, Dan Shalin from
… Earlier this year, Skiba was part of a team of five elite sports scientists, all with different areas of expertise, contracted by Nike on a project called Breaking2. The project, which was featured in a one-hour special on the National Geographic Channel on Sept. 20, was an effort to train three of the world’s best distance runners in the hope that one would complete the first sub 2-hour marathon.
Skiba and his algorithm featured prominently in the project and the television special.
“When you are a kid in math, you think you’re never going to need this. Well, actually you might,” Skiba said. “Here was the kind of problem you can solve with the math that is taught in high school or early college. It’s using practical-level math to help do something everyone thought impossible.”
Perspectives on Psychological Science journal from
Every fall, thousands of college students begin their first college courses, often in large lecture settings. Many students, even those who work hard, flounder. What should students be doing differently? Drawing on research in cognitive psychology and our experience as educators, we provide suggestions about how students should approach taking a course in college. We discuss time management techniques, identify the ineffective study strategies students often use, and suggest more effective strategies based on research in the lab and the classroom. In particular, we advise students to space their study sessions on a topic and to quiz themselves, as well as using other active learning strategies while reading. Our goal was to provide a framework for students to succeed in college classes.
Creative decision making is an important element to consider in competitive sport. Motivational models from social psychology (e.g., regulatory focus theory) indicate that creativity can directly be influenced by manipulating emotional states. Many sports require athletes to make decisions that are unexpected and therefore less predictable for their opponents, so that optimal team performance can be achieved.
So, how can athletes motivational states be altered to produce more creative solutions in sport specific situations?
… It’s been said that software is “eating the world.” More and more, critical systems that were once controlled mechanically, or by people, are coming to depend on code. This was perhaps never clearer than in the summer of 2015, when on a single day, United Airlines grounded its fleet because of a problem with its departure-management system; trading was suspended on the New York Stock Exchange after an upgrade; the front page of The Wall Street Journal’s website crashed; and Seattle’s 911 system went down again, this time because a different router failed. The simultaneous failure of so many software systems smelled at first of a coordinated cyberattack. Almost more frightening was the realization, late in the day, that it was just a coincidence.
“When we had electromechanical systems, we used to be able to test them exhaustively,” says Nancy Leveson, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has been studying software safety for 35 years. She became known for her report on the Therac-25, a radiation-therapy machine that killed six patients because of a software error. “We used to be able to think through all the things it could do, all the states it could get into.” The electromechanical interlockings that controlled train movements at railroad crossings, for instance, only had so many configurations; a few sheets of paper could describe the whole system, and you could run physical trains against each configuration to see how it would behave. Once you’d built and tested it, you knew exactly what you were dealing with.
Touch-based communication offers a direct and intuitive way for users to initiate and control data transfer when using tangible and ubiquitous interfaces. However, this requires that each interactive device be instrumented with a dedicated radio transmitter, which limits many applications. While not all devices have radio hardware, all devices do emit small amounts of electromagnetic noise in the form of EMI. We argue that if properly modulated these electromagnetic emissions can be used as an untapped communication channel capable of transmitting arbitrary data. To enable this, a spread spectrum frequency shift keying modulation scheme has been developed to encode data onto the device’s EMI. When the device is touched by a user, the data encoded EMI signal travels through their body and into our custom wrist band, consisting of a single op-amp and MCU. Our results show that we are able to turn electronic primitives such as LEDs, buttons, I/O lines, LCD screens, motors and power supplies into radio transmitters capable of touch communication. Effective data rates range from 5.8Kbps to 22 bit per image depending on the primitive used. To demonstrate this new communication technique, we develop several interactive experiences where users can retrieve complex information such as the function of buttons on a device, directions embedded into a LCD screen, and simplified device pairing. Ultimately, EM-Comm enables nearly any electronic device to be turned into a touch-based radio transmitter with only a software upgrade.
Qualcomm Life is working with electronics company Benchmark to create low-cost, disposable biometric patches that will help hospitals to monitor patients inside and outside the hospital.
“Basically, we’ve had demands from a lot of different customers for a lower-cost connected disposable patch sensor technology to use for a number of different cases and a number of different reasons,” Qualcomm Life President Rick Valencia told MobiHealthNews. “What we hear most often is perioperative care and therapeutic interventions, but there’s a long list of items hospital organizations would like to use both in the hospital and outside of the acute care environment once they discharge patients and see how they’re recovering.”
Anything that can get you back in the gym faster is worth considering. So does marijuana work? Or is the increasingly prevalent cannabis just a bunch of smoke and mirrors when it comes to fitness? We decided to find out.
KQED, MindShift, Hechinger Report, Claudia Wallis from
A funny thing happened in the Dutch city of Maastricht in the fall of 2011. A policy went into effect banning the sale of marijuana at the city’s 13 legal cannabis shops to visitors from most other countries. The goal was to discourage disruptive drug tourism in a city close to several international borders. The policy had its intended effect, but also a remarkable unintended one: foreign students attending Maastricht University starting getting better grades. According to an analysis published earlier this year in Review of Economic Studies, students who had been passing their courses at a rate of 73.9% when they could legally buy weed were now passing at a rate of 77.9% — a sizeable jump.
This is the fourth post in the deep learning development environment configuration series which accompany my new book, Deep Learning for Computer Vision with Python.
Today, we will configure Ubuntu + NVIDIA GPU + CUDA with everything you need to be successful when training your own deep learning networks on your GPU.
Just about every AI advance you’ve heard of depends on a breakthrough that’s three decades old. Keeping up the pace of progress will require confronting AI’s serious limitations.
