Interesting Engineering

New adaptive system lets robots replicate human touch with far less training data

Japanese researchers develop an adaptive robot motion system that enables human-like grasping using minimal training data.

Researchers harness nonlinear Compton scattering to create sharper, multicolor gamma-ray beams

Researchers from Skoltech, MEPhI, and the Dukhov All-Russian Research Institute of Automation have proposed a new method to ...
eLife

Learning sequence-function relationships with scalable, interpretable Gaussian processes

This important work introduces a family of interpretable Gaussian process models that allows us to learn and model sequence-function relationships in biomolecules. These models are applied to three ...
Forbes

A Psychologist Explains The ‘Illusion Of Unfairness’ — Why Life Feels Rigged Against You

Heads or tails? New research reveals that if you aren’t the one to flip it, it might still feel unfair, despite being perfectly random. A coin flip is about as fair as it gets. Its two sides with ...
IEEE

Small Slope Approximation Applied to the Electromagnetic Scattering From a Rough Soil Surface With Furrows

Abstract: The scattering of an electromagnetic wave by agricultural tilled soils is studied by using the first-order small-slope approximation. The rough surface is the superposition of two levels of ...
C&EN

Applying Gaussian Process Machine Learning and Modern Probabilistic Programming to Satellite Data to Infer CO

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Satellite data provides essential insights into the spatiotemporal distribution of CO ...
Frontiers

Gaussian process latent variable models-ANN based method for automatic features selection and dimensionality reduction for control of EMG-driven systems

Electromyography (EMG) signals have gained significant attention due to their potential applications in prosthetics, rehabilitation, and human-computer interfaces. However, the dimensionality of EMG ...
IEEE

Hyperspectral Image Classification Using Spectral-Spatial Dual Random Fields With Gaussian and Markov Processes

Abstract: This article presents a novel hyperspectral image (HSI) classification approach that integrates the sparse inducing variational Gaussian process (SIVGP) with a spatially adaptive Markov ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Denied Its Only Yiddish Professor Tenure. Did the Process Fail Him?

Harvard Denied Its Only Yiddish Professor Tenure. Did the Process Fail Him? When Yiddish studies professor Saul Noam Zaritt was denied tenure in June at the direction of Harvard President Alan M.