machine learning
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Proposal: Illustrated children’s books usually consist of two main things: Unfortunately, books written before the advent of computer-generated images are stuck with “stale” illustrations: each page contains a single fixed image that will never change. But thanks to machine learning, we can fix this! Observe the new style of children’s book, where instead of an…
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Background: In the far future, intelligent robots may wonder: is biological consciousness possible? Specifically: is it possible for a fully-organic creature with no CPU to possess more than the most rudimentary form of intelligence? As robots will know, robotic intelligence is controlled by a complicated “neural network” system (Figure 1) that has been carefully trained…
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Background: People occasionally keep a diary or journal as in order to record the events of their life and, ideally, reflect on them in a positive manner. The Issue: Unfortunately, the process of keeping a diary requires discipline and dedication. It can be easy for someone to get out of the routine of keeping a…
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Background: Every year, tens of millions of coloring books are sold to children and adults alike. The Issue: Filling in a coloring book can be quite a time-consuming process. Even with frantic scribbling and thick markers, it’s a slow process to fully color even a single page in a coloring book (Figure 1). Proposal: Thanks…
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Background: In a hypothetical future where self-driving cars are increasingly common, they’ll have to do a really good job of automatically distinguishing between things that require sudden braking (e.g. a person in the roadway) and things that are OK to hit (e.g. a tumbling empty cardboard box). The issue: This is a hard problem. When…
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Background: Columns of text in a book or newspaper are generally formatted in the fully justified style (Figure 1), where the text always lines up exactly on both the left and right edges. Fig. 1: The “justify text” button (circled in red) can be found in nearly every text editor. The issue: Justified text works…
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