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Is it necessary to have IP for launching a startup? | No. But, once a customer is convinced you have a solution to one of their problems, it is helpful to have a good answer to the common question "Why should I buy from you and not someone else?" If the answer is "price", you are probably in a commodity business, which means that you had better have a lower cost of production than your competitors. How do you achieve that? If it is by process or supplier improvements, you probably want to keep both secret so your competitor can't use them. That would be a "trade secret", a form of IP. Perhaps the answer is "We have a good reputation". You may want to protect that via a copyright or trademark, another form of IP. No one else is allowed to call themselves "Apple" and sell computers for example. In places without these legal protections (e.g. China), most businesses engage in price competition. However, that usually produces quality problems (e.g. milk containing melamine), so many Chinese prefer a trusted brand. You can have commodity trusted brands also. E.g. Costco. Many people do not price compare outside of Costco. They go in assuming that they have the lowest price on items and that the items will not sicken them. Costco occasionally bends this. E.g. their gasoline is not always the cheapest. However members do not mind so long as it is -usually- the case. If the answer is "no one else has this", you probably have invented something new. If the market is small, no one cares. If you have customers lining up out the door, great margins and fantastic cash flow, then someone will take notice and try to duplicate it. Voila, your first competitor! What do you do if the competitor is bigger, can figure out what you do by buying your product, copies it and starts to compete? You could get a big partner. That costs a lot of leverage. Another alternative is a patent, which gives you exclusive rights to you great new idea for a period of years. The patent, a form of IP, must be well written however. E.g. the key patent on a Singer sewing machine was putting the hole near the point of the needle. This is easy to police and it is difficult for someone to create a good sewing machine without that innovation. Now, suppose you want to raise capital. The investor will want to hear your answer to the "competition" question, and will preferentially choose those with better answers, since it reduces the risk of his investment. | 6/5/2015 |
Is it possible to create an AI to automatically select the best machine learning algorithm to apply to a dataset? | CHeck out Q-learning - Wikipedia for the best. However many kaggle efforts use ensembles (weighted collections of mutiple simultaneous techniques) instead of just one technique. | 1/13/2017 |
Is it possible to divide a very large table, based on sensitive and non-sensitive row data where sensitive data is very small? | Not quite sure of the question, or the application area. The closest thing I heard that may be related was at IBM (maybe this event? Reinforcement Learning Silicon Valley). There, once back-propagation was done in training Neural networks, they go through a “re-normalization” operation where they might (for example) just drop the weights close to zero; or if there is one very large weight, they will drop all other weights at that level. Of course, this introduces error, so they retest to quantify exactly how much. The key takeaway here is not to look at the table in isolation, but consider how it is going to be used. Another example was when I was doing music synthesis in 1977. Instead of storing sine waves, I’d stored square waves (MUCH smaller representation) since my speaker was so bad, all the edges got rounded off anyway. | 3/10/2017 |
Is it possible to quantify how much somebody contributed to an idea / a project? | They have stock compensation tables for particular tasks in particular function (e.g. marketing, sales, engineering) for particular business types. Its a lot like the book that autobody repair guys use for cost estimates to fix damaged cars. The idea then is that whoever can demonstrate task completion gets to check off the box and is awarded the amount of stock in the box. You can figure percentage by adding up the stock associated with checked boxes to date. | 11/13/2016 |
Is it too late to start studying Machine Learning and/or artificial Intelligence? | Check out the material and answer the question yourself. Here is a start on the deep learning side of things. For what its worth, I have pursued things at two basic energy levels in my life. First is with a passing interest. I have learned basic elements of mechanics to help one child build a bridge and re-learned enough electronics to support some some of my other kid’s medical device interests. The other is with commitment bordering on obsession. When I was younger and single, ‘girls’ were and example of this. Unless you are a natural talent, I suspect that it would help you to make a commitment of the second kind, given your (presumably) late start, the speed that things are happening and your implied goals. Good Luck! | 1/29/2017 |
Is it wise to quit the job that kills your social life when you're 25, but it gives you a valuable experience in your resume, in searching for quality time with friends, family, and yourself? | Well. As has been mentioned, you have to decide. As for me, the I worked in the offshore oilfields of Texas for a while, and saw one 22 year old guy lose his leg, another 23 year old made a paraplegic and the 24 year old guy who hired me die in helicopter crash. Prior to that my 18 year old next door neighbor died in a car crash. So. Although I was making good money, my survival odds made me feel kind of uncomfortable. I asked myself, "What do you do if there actually is a very good chance you will die tomorrow? " My answer at the time was that I was working too much. So I went to grad school and after two years, felt I had played enough and went to work. And thereafter, I did a 6 month "audit". "You will be dead tomorrow. What is it you wish you had done that you haven't yet?" And I've done it. A lot of 6 montheses have gone by, and I'm clearly past my halfway point. However I still ask the question and it's worked for me. | 11/29/2014 |
Is it worth learning HTML or will website builders and artificial intelligence render it useless in the future? | I write stuff that generates HTML. It helps to know it to generate it. | 7/14/2017 |
Is Jesus the greatest entrepreneur ever? | Along the lines of previous answers: no. You could make an argument that Peter was. More to the point, he was the founder of a great mass movement. If such things interest you, you might consider reading Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer. | 8/3/2016 |
Is Kickstarter.com a good idea for getting funding for an original web based service when there is a prototype to show? | Sure, if there is a passionate group who desperately needs the service and you can reach them via kickstarter. | 4/19/2016 |
Is MATLAB a good platform for developing deep learning and computer vision algorithms, considering practical feasibility? | Most have switched from mat lab to python. E.g. Andrew ng has changed his course from using matlab to python. | 9/14/2017 |
Is the ambition or practicality of a science fair project more important? | It depends on what you want to get out of it. If the goal is to win, independent research into a novel topic that shows new results is not a bad way to go. But even if you come up with a good project, it needs to be well communicated. If your goal is to try out the scientific method yourself and lean from it, again neither matters much so long as you are motivated to complete the process. See also What can I do to produce an original science fair project? I have brainstormed great project ideas but always find that they've already been invented. | 2/14/2018 |
Is the mind limited in its perception of reality? | Yes. In particular, our reasoning powers dimly indicate some of the limits to our perception. E.g. We were trained to perceive reality at speeds much less than the speed of light and scales much greater than an atom and much less than the size of one galaxy. This is why relativistic mechanics, quantum mechanics and dark matter are non-intuitive (i.e. contradict our perception) respectively. We may dimly understand them, but do not generally perceive them. For example, absent looking at the rim of the sun during a solar eclipse, people perceive universal geometry as Euclidian (Euclidean geometry). It is not, it is Riemannian (Riemannian geometry). However, even at "normal" speed and scale many "perceive" reality using Objectivity (philosophy). This gives rise to "paradoxes" such as the Ship of Theseus and viewing people as immutable objects into which souls enter at birth and leave at death. An alternate model (Subjective character of experience) may be that objects are no more substantial than the faces one "perceives" in textured wallpaper or on the sands of mars (Unmasking the Face on Mars). ephemeral patterns of quarks that briefly appear and dissipate, given form only by an observer. This objective perception seems to be hardwired. The visual system starts with cells that do edge detection, then each visual system "layer" gradually manufactures an "objective" representation and finally feeds these "objects" to the brain. Perceptual adaptation suggests however that if perception systems are bypassed, people seem to be generally programmable. E.g. they can wear glasses that reverse left and right or up and down and, after a period of fumbling, they adapt. What's more, as Piaget's theory of cognitive development shows, a lot of our perceptions and associated intuitions are learned. In particular, after birth, when our minds are most malleable, we first identify "objects" and then learn things like "if you let go of an object, it falls", "if an object disappears behind a tree, it either comes out the other side or is behind the tree", "If you fill a glass with water, eventually it overflows", etc. I always wondered what would happen if you took a child and raised them with relativistic or quantum "visors" so that their understanding of the universe at that scale became intuitive. Unhindered by prejudices acquired at our "scale", would they be able to perceive intuitive explanations of the universe that they would be able to communicate to us? Or would the child be so alien that it would not even be able to communicate? Could a child be made "bi spatial" as well as "bi lingual", spending part of their time in the relativistic universe and part of their time in the "slow" universe? Mimsy Were the Borogoves is a science fiction story that explores the effect of training a child to perceive a 4th dimension. A related take on this was discussed today in the The New York Times "Philosophy Returns to the Real World". It quotes George Berkeley (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) who believed "to be and to be perceived were the same". Of course, this does not mean that if we do not perceive it, it does not exist. (Higgs Boson). | 4/14/2015 |
Is there a "rigorous" justification of why deep learning algorithms need a lot of data? | Code coverage - Wikipedia on millions of nodes. | 7/8/2017 |
Is there a mathematics book that reads like a novel and allows you to learn certain advanced mathematics concepts? | The Mathematical Experience - Wikipedia Godel escher bach | 12/6/2017 |
Is there a way to legally induce stress in a science fair project? | It depends on the local rules, but I imagine not. That said, since it is not allowed, if you can find a way to work around it you might have a unique entry. E.g. suppose you looked at natural situations. Finals vs. pop quiz results. Students who are about to fail; etc. Do a baseline and see how results change due a natuarl (iei -beyond your control-) situation. | 2/11/2017 |
Is there any computer vision algorithm that can automatically tell if an object is recyclable, just from its picture? | You could probably use deeplearning to do the initial sort if you had enough labeled examples | 1/24/2017 |
Is there any good overview research paper on deep-learning-based techniques for solving natural language processing tasks? | Check out Richard Socher - Home Page | 9/7/2017 |
Is there any list of deep neural networks and the number of layers used in it? | At Deep Learning for Image and Video Processing, on January 20, 2017, the speakers maintained “architecture is the new feature”. I.e. Instead of feature engineering, researchers now Concentrate on various architectures. He said “when I see a problem, I ask what layer architecture solved it in the past”. So I asked if there was a dictionary available to assist in this. He said no. Perhaps you could start one! | 2/2/2017 |
I’m interested in robotics hardware and OS. So what are your suggestions about some innovative ideas for final year projects of a BSCS student? | A lot of low level control and measurement software is written for the arduino, which has a non-preemptive interrupt. The allows the arduino to take measurements at a fixed sample rate, which makes stuff like FFTs work. A lot of high level robotics software is written to run on Unix, which has pre-emptive multitasking. As such fixed interval sampling can’t be done with it. Arduino once sold the Yun, which did both, which I am told has been discontinued. Solve this problem. The easiest way (might be) to create a bridge between a Raspberry PI and an Aeduino with a special protocol on each side. | 10/25/2016 |
I’m looking to start a business after 6 years in the military (I’m 16) what sort of business would you recommend that has the potential to make millions by the time I’m 50? | Get the names of everybody you serve with, notate their skill level, learn military procurement procedures -cold- and read up everything you can on military contractors, e.g. Academi - Wikipedia aka Blackwater. Treat everyone you meet well. Help them when they are in trouble. Get them to like you. If you start to make the mistake of disliking some of them, remeber that you will someday be paying them $x/hr in order to be able to bill them out at $3x/hour. | 2/3/2018 |
Life originated from chemicals, Abiogenesis, and evolution did the rest of the work. All of our thoughts and emotions are simply electrical charges and chemical reactions in the brain. Are we just bags of chemicals, moving around, and nothing more? | Well, speaking as an engineer, I believe I "understand" something when I can build it from scratch as well as being able to take it apart. By that measure, chemistry, metallurgy, materials science and the like help me understand the (basic) operation of a number of our body's organs. The test being that I can replace some of my body parts with my own constructs (artificial knees and kidneys for example) and have them work well, and as expected. However, we also have a brain, and models of how it works are pretty low fidelity. That is, I can't yet replace mine with a (satisfactory) construct that I create. How far away am I? Well, Ray Kurzweil notwithstanding, How to Build a Brain: A Neural Architecture for Biological Cognition (Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures): 9780199794546: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com says that the structure of the synapse involves nanoscale distances. As such, it is possible that synaptic operation is based on nanoscale (quantum) phenomena. How import could the quantum structure of the brain be? "A few researchers, such as Roger Penrose of the University of Oxford, maintain that consciousness—including the impression of temporal flux—could be related to quantum processes in the brain." (From September 2002 Scientific American, later work is The possibility of processing with nuclear spins in the brain) If true, you may need to add "just a platform for a quantum machine" to your description of how people work. And that is just one structure. 30 years ago I was taught that glial cells provide structural support to the brain. Now I hear that they may be memory elements as well. Perhaps the right analogy is that so far, we know how to replace the chrome knob on the face of a car radio in a Google self driving car. An absolutely necessary skill if we want to hear music, but not a real big step toward understanding how the total car fits together and works. | 2/25/2017 |
Math guys still use theorems that are very old and stable, why is this not the case with machine learning or AI? Is there a fundamental theorem in AI? | Check out Alan Turing. The basic theorem, article of faith really, is that human cognition is computable by a Turing machine. By the way, it is not clear if this is true, or if it is true, how long the computation will take. E.g. Synaptic gaps are small enough that they may be subject to quantum phenomena. In particular, that gap may explain our sense of time. So if our sense of self relies on quantum mechanics, a Turing machine may not be able to even model it in a practical length of time. | 2/10/2017 |
My potential co-founder for my startup is in another country, thus our opportunity costs for leaving our jobs to work on the startup is different. How do you split equity here? | In line with the other responses, you ought split equity by what you contribute to the venture. Some examples for particular classes of startups are in The Entrepreneur's Manual: Business Start-Ups, Spin-Offs, and Innovative Management: Richard M. White: 9780801964541: Amazon.com: Books | 12/21/2014 |
Should I learn Pascal in 2017 as a side project? | It might be instructive if you are a language designer. But you might learn more by implementing a language rather than learning one. In 1981, I implemented a version of Scheme in PL/M using Chapter 4 of Susman/Abelson’s “Structure and interpretation of Computer programs” (https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/d...) as a blueprint. A more modern version of this project is (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)) In 1986, after reading Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach: Brad J. Cox, Andrew J. Novobilski: 9780201548341: Amazon.com: Books , I created a version of Objective ‘C” by just comment extending “C”. My version consisted of two procedures “s” (send) and “ss” (send super), and 4 comment extensions which designated labeled procedures as being instance or class or instance-meta or class-meta methods. As such, I did not need to write a whole compiler, just an extension that registered labeled procedures in a table for s and ss. That was enough to implement most of Smalltalk 80: The Language: Adele Goldberg, David Robson: 0785342136883: Amazon.com: Books I learned a lot from both exercises. | 9/26/2017 |
Should I pursue an undergraduate degree in artificial Intelligence? | To clarify: how do you measure your degree of interest? Did you learn python and run the tutorials? Did you participate in kaggle competitions? Did you do science fair projects? Or do you take a casual glance at science magazines occasionally? I'd pick a field where you have demonstrated some level of commitment and start there. | 3/7/2017 |
Startup Advice and Strategy: From what books or websites can l learn to do a startup step by step? | How to Start a Startup Eleven Useful Books For First-Time Tech Founders | 7/9/2015 |
To what extent can machine learning and AI be used in the detection and the treatment of cancer? | The issue imho is getting enough data together to train the model. If Hippa and academic barriers can be overcome and enough data scraped together, we have a reasonable shot at doing this. | 2/15/2017 |
We hear a lot about the advantages of starting a company with co-founders, but what are some advantages of going solo? | Howard Hughes used to say: “Partners are dead weight.” Of course, he already had a successful company when he said it. You can survive without a partner, but even Hughes couldn't survive without positive cash flow (which usually implies customers). I'd concentrate on that. | 7/2/2015 |
Were the first two years of college as an engineering major hard for you? | Yes. But I suspect I am an unusual case. My goal was to get a BSChE in 3 years. I came in with AP college credit for Calculus and Chemistry. For all my electives, I took core EE classes. As a result, one semester consisted of 28 hours of classes plus 10 hours of labs. I did not get all A’s. In retrospect, it would have been better to go 4 years, but I wanted to save my father’s money. Perhaps more to the point, if you are having difficulty, double-check that you have the pre-requisite knowledge. You may be better served by spending time with earlier course material and then re-taking the material you have difficulty with. (not retaking the class, just re-review the lectures, homework and tests). Spend your summer doing this for sure, otherwise your problems, big as they are now, will likely only snowball further. It is hard to do. But it can be done. Good luck! | 4/6/2018 |
What advice would you give someone looking to go to college at age 25? | I went to grad school after a gap year from college. Don’t stop working and don’t get behind on the homework. Do it as soon as it is assigned, and ask the prof/TA questions immediately if you are having a problem. | 2/20/2018 |
What advice would you give to a 20 year old first time entrepreneur/founder in college? | Work a while for someone else. Learn from them and make newbie mistakes using their money, not yours. | 12/14/2017 |
What AI/ML technologies are still to be applied in a third world country? | Personalized Instruction (Teaching) | 12/7/2016 |
What Arduino shields should I get if I'm just getting started with Arduino projects? | I agree with the previous three answers. Perhaps more to the point, I view Arduinos as being a means to an end. What do you want to do? By illustration, I had taken my daughters to a MakerFaire and bought an Arduino Uno for them and it sat on a shelf for a year of so. My eldest daughter did a science project where she used an aluminum box with switches built by a friend (Howie Johnson) to control some LEDs for a non-invasive blood analysis project using fluorescence. My second daughter needed to do a similar project but it required looking at the light absorption properties on blood during the course of a heartbeat (like a pulse oximeter). No way a simple switch box would do the job. In a Homer Simpson head slapping moment, I asked myself what can I do to help her control the light measurements at a faster frequency. The Uno worked well for a while. But then, I needed to control the LED intensity and also bias the receiver. I did not use a shield, instead I got an Arduino Due, which had two D/A ports (PWM wouldn’t work for this application). As I moved past the breadboarding stage, I created my own shield using something like this SparkFun ProtoShield Kit | 12/9/2017 |
What are creative ways to use a bar space during the day? | Some stuff comes immediately to mind.
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What are different ways to improve hands-on experience in a biotech wet lab other than attending trainings and projects? | Depends if you are traing technicians or entrepreneurs. If entrepreneurs, then have a seminar on market identification with special emphasis on projects that were big successes (an failures) and why. | 5/30/2016 |
What are examples of activities that promote the general welfare? | Plant a tree and picking up trash on public property. | 1/22/2018 |
What are good books to refer to for understanding business analysis? | For an on-going business, This is helpful for financials: http://csinvesting.org/wp-conten... For market analysis (ie creating a startup) The Entrepreneur's Manual: Business Start-Ups, Spin-Offs, and Innovative Management: Richard M. White: 9781626548718: Amazon.com: Books | 10/30/2017 |
What are good ideas for a high school biology project? | Harker School (topresearch) does well in this area. Dr. Anita Chetty (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anit...) is an absolute machine at getting internships for kids at local institutions. These internships turn into science fair projects. You or your teacher might call her to discuss her model and try and apply it to your area. | 3/10/2018 |
What are good ideas for using statistics to solve a global or local problem or to make a problem more aware to people, for a science fair project? | How about listing the primary data sources people use to discuss climate change and doing a statistical analysis of what can or cannot be concluded from the data? Start with a T-Test on different data sources of the hypothesis that global temperature is increasing. Then look at the correlation with Ice Cap melting; Yearly California Rainfall; Hurricane Frequency, etc. Looking at the discussions around Richard Muller may lead you to data sources. | 5/2/2017 |
What are good topics for biology project class 10? | check out Biotechnology in the public interest | 12/21/2017 |
What are good ways to raise capital in Philippines? | Look into an incubator. e.g. see https://www.techinasia.com/5-not... Talk to a member of the “founding families”, e.g. Sergio Osmeña - Wikipedia or a telecomm company, but be careful. | 12/9/2017 |
What are other short, clever, and fun proofs like the proof that 2‾√2\sqrt{2} is irrational? | Pythagoras (Middle School) Greeks apparently got a lot of their geometric insight playing with tiles (their version of blocks). For example, one ancient demonstration of Pythagoras' proof was to take any right triangle and make 4 copies of it. These 4 triangles can be arranged in a big square shape in the two ways shown below. Clearly, the sides of each big square are of equal length (a + b) and so must have equal area. Also, taken together, the 4 triangles take up the same area in each big square. So if we subtract out the triangles, the area of colored square "C" must equal the combined areas of the colored squares "A" and "B". That is to say “area of square C” = “area of square A” + “area of square B”. But "C" is a square with sides of length "c" and "B" is a square with sides of length "b" and "A" is a square with sides of length "a", so c2 = a2 + b2. The key thing to note here is that the "insight" to solving this problem is not to think about two column geometric proofs, but to understand the implications of the patterns you see when you play with tiles. Here is another. Gauss (Elementary School) Carl Gauss is one of the smartest mathematicians who every lived. There is a famous story about him listed here. It says "in elementary school his teacher tried to occupy pupils by making them add up the integers from 1 to 100. The young Gauss produced the correct answer within seconds by a flash of mathematical insight, to the astonishment of all. Gauss had realized that pairwise addition of terms from opposite ends of the list yielded identical intermediate sums: 1 + 100 = 101, 2 + 99 = 101, 3 + 98 = 101, and so on, for a total sum of 50 × 101 = 5050 (see arithmetic series and summation)". It is amazing that Gauss did this. Still, someone who played a lot with blocks could probably do this also. Consider the following example: suppose you were a boy in elementary school, and asked to add numbers from 1 to 5. Now, instead of thinking about a series of numbers as a series of digits, a little boy might think about them as a staircase of blocks. For example, in the staircase below, the number "1" is represented by the single block on the end of the staircase. the number "2" is represented by the two vertically stacked blocks next to it. "3" is represented by the 3 vertically stacked blocks, and so on all the way through 5. Note that for staircases of this type, a series of "n" steps ("n" can be any number) will always be "n" wide and "n" tall. Now, suppose you copied the above staircase and flipped one over, like we do below. Now, fit the staircases together. This makes a rectangle that is 5 tall and 6 (not 5!) wide. The number of blocks in a rectangle is easy to figure, it's just the width times the height or 6 x 5 = 30. But to get the number of blocks in just one staircase, you have to divide the area by 2. So the sum of the digits from 1 to 5 is 5 * (5 + 1) / 2 = 5 * 6 / 2 = 15. If we had "n" numbers instead of "5", then the general formula for summing this series is: n * (n + 1)/2 So long as "n" is any integer larger than 0. The key thing to note here is that the "insight" to solving this problem is not to think about "pairwise addition of terms from opposite ends of the list yielded identical intermediate sums". Instead, it is more helpful to think about shapes that fit together than numbers in a series. | 3/20/2015 |
What are some alternative assets that startups can use besides equity to issue to investors to raise capital? | Warrants and options. sites like gofundme use Tchotchke - Wikipedia | 11/6/2017 |
What are some artificial neural network project ideas for undergraduates? | Develop a theory of dyslexia (Millions Have Dyslexia, Few Understand It) Take a position as to whether neural networks REALLY model brain function (e.g. see Bill Paseman's answer to What are the most important deep learning algorithms? In which order should I learn them?) If you believe that they do model some levels, then train one neural network to read and train another to be dyslexic. (E.g. Deep generative learning of location-invariant visual word recognition) Compare the two using Learning Important Features Through Propagating Activation Differences | 12/4/2016 |
What are some best undergraduate projects in ambient intelligence? | At Silicon Valley codecamp last October, and IBM guy cobbled together a system that sprayed water on a raccoon that was eating his garden. (Wackcoon Catching a predator with technology (node, IoT, Cog Services, git)) It used image recognition to identify the raccoon before it turned on the water. You could (probably) run a basic neural network in a raspberry pi and incur fewer service charges. You would need on the order of 4K for the nodes and 640K for the weights. See How do you implement Artificial Intelligence in an Arduino Project? (Thanks for the upvote) I looked around and found my notes: https://console.ng.bluemix.net/ Microsoft Cognitive Services LUIS - Chatbot Running Node on a Raspberry - Pi 3 - Built-in WiFi. Wackcoon-camera, device, hook (distributes sw via git-hub push). https://github.com/DanielEgan/wa... node-resemble-js commander command line tool is helpful ngrok - github hooks - push to master sends to payload url. | 2/20/2017 |
What are some books about the Japanese economy from the 1960s to the 1990s? | The Japan That Can Say No - Wikipedia came out at the height of Japanese economic growth (1989). Once they finished destroying their own economy, their nationalistic bluster dropped quite a bit. | 3/2/2017 |
What are some catchy titles for a science fair project? | Saving the World: Measuring which plant species consume the most CO2. (and so are best at fighting global warming.) see also Tropical forests now emit more carbon than they soak up | 9/28/2017 |
What are some cool life science science fair projects? | Non-invasive blood analysis. Since it is non-invasive, lab work can be done within the fair guidelines. http://cssf.usc.edu/History/2008... made it to the state finals. http://mazziotti.uchicago.edu/jo... was an Intel semifinalist. | 5/7/2017 |
What are some cool project ideas to make a model of a brain? | Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness? and https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.05929... This is pretty new and so may not have been done before. | 2/24/2017 |
What are some creative project ideas about "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley? | In 1814, Percy Shelly, Lord Byron and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horrorstory. From that competition, the two most famous horror stories of western literature were created: Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Polidori’s Vampyre. What could have possibly been said to motivate these two nascent horror authors to create not only two of the best literary works of that century, but create an entirely new genre? That is your project. Not to create a new story or even a new genre; but rather to try and reproduce what was said to these authors that caused them to create these stories. Checkout | 3/28/2017 |
What are some difficult calculus problems? | Given what Newton knew: F = dp/dt; p = m * v; v = ds/dt and what Faraday knew: E = s0∫s1 F * ds and what Lorentz knew: m = m0/(1 - (v/c)^2)^1/2 prove what Einstein figured out: E = (m1 - m0) * c^2 This is a "starred" Haliday and Resnick problem from my 12th grade Physics text. Being able to re-derive E=mc^2 will take your kid through three centuries of classical mechanics. A hint: it will require a limit change on the integral. | 10/19/2014 |
What are some disadvantages of data driven research? | “Daß ich nicht mehr mit saurem Schweiß This is from Goethe’s retelling of the tale of Faust, who sold his soul in exchange for seeing how the world was put together (among other things). The Devil upheld his end, but when he showed Faust how the world worked, Faust discovered that his level of understanding was not up to task. Much like a dog looking in wonder at a can opener, he was just was incapable of “getting” it. SO the bargain was empty. This is the bargain more and more often struck by deep learning and other statistical approaches. They give superior performance, but the way the system reasons is largely incoherent. And by and large, engineers can accept this bargain, but scientists cannot. They thought that the deal was that with enough work, you can actually understand how the world is put together. Maybe not. Maybe the ‘layered” approach to sciences (physics <- chemistry <- biology …) ultimately creates a model that -cannot- fit in our little brains. | 3/20/2017 |
What are some disadvantages of using a paper-based system for storing information, as opposed to a computer-based system? | On the other hand, one advantage of paper over computers is demonstrable in voting systems: credible auditing. People are concerned that the outcome of purely digital elections is subject to non-detectable manipulation. If, on the other hand, each vote is on a paper ballot, signed by the voter, cross referenced (on paper) to the voters address, and witnessed by poll officials; the result seems to be trusted more, since it is difficult to mass produce such ballots artificially. | 3/8/2018 |
What are some examples of inputs of an artificial neural network in a financial time series data forecast? | Price History. I saw one network feed one trading year of prices (250 some odd days) into a convolutional neural network. The results were not overwhelming. Also check out https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/s... who reports results of the different Deep Learning approaches and http://bigdatafinance.eu/wp/wp-c... who gives an overview without results. | 7/27/2017 |
What are some free public clouds on which we can apply machine learning? | In the cancer genome atlas. | 9/19/2017 |
What are some fun and different project based learning ideas? | Destination Imagination - 2016-17 Challenge Previews DI provides challenges for kindergarden through university undergraduates. Balsa Wood Bridge Building is a common activity. | 10/26/2016 |
What are some fun programming projects for beginners? | Before the days of copy machines, Bach (and most other classical and baroque composers) got started by transcribing music. This let them see standard musical devices of their era. My Dad and his generation would strip down cars and rebuild them to see how they worked. Similarly, I would recommend that you re-implement something that fascinates you. Look at projects that are on github - Build software better, together and have associated papers on arXiv.org e-Print archive. For example: [1412.2306] Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions and karpathy/neuraltalk2 This will let you see how stuff is though about, and how it is actually done. Then reimplement something similar E.g. waleedka/traffic-signs-tensorflow and then monkey with one or the other to do something similar. | 5/23/2017 |
What are some good books on business? | For starting something new: The Entrepreneur's Manual: Business Start-Ups, Spin-Offs, and Innovative Management: Richard M. White: 9781626548718: Amazon.com: Books | 11/20/2017 |
What are some good books on mathematics for 12 years old? | Gödel, Escher, Bach is good, but has a computing emphasis | 3/8/2016 |
What are some good examples of visual project ideas? | moire patterns; visual illusions | 10/14/2016 |
What are some good ideas on science fair working models which are easy to do yet excellent and remarkable? | Look at a Double pendulum - Wikipedia | 10/6/2017 |
What are some good illustrated math books that show you a little of everything in mathematics? | 11/7/2017 | |
What are some good project ideas about the skeletal system? | As a neophyte: Why is marrow in the bone? Apparently blood cells start as stem cells in the marrow and differentiate as they travel out. (If true): Why? Current surgical replacements include titanium rods for load bearing members (e.g. femur) and titanium mesh for vertebrae replacement. What is the most likely next generation replacement? Can nanotechnology be used to simultaneously combat rejection, add strength and promote integration (e.g. bone infiltration on either end of a femur replacement). | 11/13/2016 |
What are some good project ideas for Twitter data using Python? | See if you can apply spam filter tech to identifying bots. | 3/6/2018 |
What are some good project ideas/examples for a FPGA and Machine Learning based project for undergraduate? | Use an FPGA to replicate Tensorflow — Neural Network Playground | 11/22/2016 |
What are some good project topics related to transportation engineering? | Automated civil construction. E.g. World's first 3D-printed bridge opens to cyclists in Netherlands | 1/31/2018 |
What are some good projects related to thermodynamics for a second year mechanical engineering student? | Build a demon> A new information engine is pushing the boundaries of thermodynamics | 1/22/2018 |
What are some good research topics in modelling and simulation? | parameterize a valveless pulse jet engine, then explore the parameter space to see optimal parameters for thrust and thrust/fuel_usage. Please tell me when you are done. I’d like to see the paper. | 3/16/2018 |
What are some good science and technology summer projects that aren't too complicated but aren't simple (I am a 9th grader)? | There is a big balsa wood bridge building community. The idea is to build a bridge that weighs the least but holds the most weight. E.g. see www.SisterZone.com | 6/25/2017 |
What are some good science fair ideas for fifth graders? | Look at a Double pendulum - Wikipedia | 10/6/2017 |
What are some good science fair projects involving computer science? | Use deepchem/deepchem to repurpose a drug for Papillary Kidney Carcinoma a listed in The Cancer Genome Atlas Home Page or List the primary data sources people use to discuss climate change and do a statistical analysis of what can or cannot be concluded from the data. Looking at the discussions around Richard Muller may lead you to data sources. | 9/28/2017 |
What are some good science project ideas for a 6th grader? | Try doing several time exposed photos of a double pendulum with the same starting condition. Put an LED on the end. | 1/15/2018 |
What are some good science projects for a 7th grade student's life science class? | I don’t know if it is passe’ at this point, but one project done in High School is to make fluorescent algae using CRISPR. (e.g. DIY CRISPR Kits, Learn Modern Science By Doing) Checkout CRISPR/Cas9 Guide . I did it at Getting started with synthetic biology - Solid 2015 using a Synbiota kit. | 11/22/2016 |
What are some good twelfth grade science fair projects? | Do some pan cancer analysis Nature TCGA | TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis using The Cancer Genome Atlas: About TCGA | 4/30/2018 |
What are some good ways I can compare programming languages to one another in the format of a science fair project? | you might try a time ordered family tree (genealogy). The tree probably has one root, assembly, and then branches to eg FORTRAN, COBOL, LISP, PROLOG. Start here Generational list of programming languages - Wikipedia Or here Since all languages have an initial release date that can function as a birthdate. Most languages were introduced to add (or subtract) some capability from their predecessors. E.g. C was created to write UNIX. Among other things, you could mix in assembly. However after the universal assault on ‘goto’ In the 60’s, brad cox could not use c to straightforwardly write an objective c interpreter in his “Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach”. He had to edit the c compilers output assembly files in one spot to change a ‘call’ to a ‘jump’. Weird fact given that c was supposed to be used to write OSes. One side of the tree could show ‘standards’. The most interesting standard imho is Ada, designed by the us military to be ‘one language to rule them all’. It didn’t. One value of the tree is you can include a program snippet that illustrates the concept that differentiates it. One branch might include esoteric languages (e.g. Malbolge The Wonderful World of Esoteric Programming Languages) | 12/9/2017 |
What are some great science fair ideas that could qualify for ISEF? | I submit that you ought ask “what process should I follow to get a science fair idea that qualifies for ISEF”. Anita Chetty at The Harker School has probably fielded more ISEF winners than anyone. Harker lists the projects, and I have seen videos of her describing her process on public access cable channels in the Bay area. Basically she pairs the students up with first class University researchers in the Bay area. This apprenticeship approach seems to work for her. The projects are often Bio related (she is a Bio teacher and Bio is ‘hot’) and embedding the students in a competitive environment full of ideas with adequate equipment and mentors seems to provide enough focus, pressure and direction to produce ISEF winners. Of course, you had better be able to drink form a firehose. | 6/2/2018 |
What are some idea for a SMART system for a senior college project? | Create a toolchain to implement DeepLearning on an Arduino. Here is one completed project: Arduino Neural Network If it were me, I’d train the network on the PC and download the weights onto the device.E.g. see Bill Paseman's answer to How do you implement Artificial Intelligence in an Arduino Project? | 5/27/2017 |
What are some ideas for a presentation about anything related to material science? | Check out Negative Poisson Ratio Materials or Thin Engineered Material Perfectly Redirects and Reflects Sound or Vanta Black | 4/13/2018 |
What are some ideas for a social studies fair project? | Social habits of Pokemon Go players. Go to a public park, throw out a couple of lures and go nuts writing down how people interact with one another. | 9/9/2016 |
What are some ideas for Arduino Robot projects? | Arduinos are fine as controllers, but generally lack the speed/memory to do anything “intelligent” without a LOT of work. On the offhand chance that you are more interested in robots than Arduinos, check out the Jetson TX2 Module | 11/20/2017 |
What are some innovative Ideas for Google Science Fair 2018? | Do some pan-cancer analysis using the cancer genome atlas. The Cancer Genome Atlas Home Page | 5/10/2018 |
What are some interesting names for programs that carry out predictions? | Cassandra - Wikipedia or Alexandra is a rather negative myth about prophecy. She messed with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ap... , the greek god of prophesy. Warren Buffet is called the “Oracle of Omaha” for his ability to predict markets. One good name might be ‘Larry’, since Larry Ellison is the president of Oracle. | 1/14/2017 |
What are some interesting project ideas that require some technical ability? | At Silicon Valley codecamp last October, and IBM guy cobbled together a system that sprayed water on a raccoon that was eating his garden. (Wackcoon Catching a predator with technology (node, IoT, Cog Services, git)) It used image recognition to identify the raccoon before it turned on the water. You could (probably) run a basic neural network in a raspberry pi and incur fewer service charges. You would need on the order of 4K for the nodes and 640K for the weights. See How do you implement Artificial Intelligence in an Arduino Project? My notes: https://console.ng.bluemix.net/ Microsoft Cognitive Services LUIS - Chatbot Running Node on a Raspberry - Pi 3 - Built-in WiFi. Wackcoon-camera, device, hook (distributes sw via git-hub push). https://github.com/DanielEgan/wa... node-resemble-js commander command line tool is helpful ngrok - github hooks - push to master sends to payload url. | 3/4/2017 |
What are some inventions that are in need of an innovation? | Financial reporting. See Bill Paseman's answer to What is your biggest pain as a self-directed investor? | 2/19/2018 |
What are some learning methods should I use for this project and where can I learn them from? | 10/18/2016 | |
What are some master’s in science degrees focusing on emergent educational technologies or similar stuff? | I know of no degree programs. However you might be able to write a masters thesis on how some universities have transitioned their curriculum online (e.g. Coursera and MITX) | 3/27/2018 |
What are some math questions that a 10th grader could ask to startle their math teacher? | Well, often you are more likely to startle a teacher with an answer (or an attempt at an answer) rather than a question. E.g. Consider Jessica Su's question about integrating exp(-x*x). At the time (12th grade for me) , we were taught Taylor expansions in addition to the statement "You can't integrate exp(-x*x)". So I tried integrating the taylor expansion instead. The attempt failed in an interesting way (-1 + 1 - 1 + 1 ...) and I presented it to the teacher and later to the class. I was fortunate in that students in the (AP) class were honestly interested in questions like this, as was the teacher. Like students, teachers deal with piles of shit all day. Injecting some positive energy by doing this type of thing often reminds the good teachers of the reason they became teachers in the first place. As such, a collaborative approach produced more benefit to me (teacher recommendations, etc.) than a "stumper" might. Of course, if you are in a confrontational environment, this approach could backfire. | 10/13/2014 |
What are some mini projects related to smart village development? | Check out Solar-Powered Light Bulbs Illuminate Tacloban or | 12/21/2017 |
What are some novel and interesting finance projects one can do in R? | Implement and compare several alternatives to Modern Portfolio Theory. E.g. Quantitative Finance | 10/18/2016 |
What are some of the best books/resources for learning about High pressure Water Jetting? | Water Jetting is also used for a variety of applications: cutting metal, industrial cleaning. Trade associations like the Waterjetting technology association ( Home | ) have a bookstore listing best practices. | 2/28/2017 |
What are some of the industries or areas that we have not ventured into yet? | Addressing subset of your question: Conceptually, on the labor side: Stuff that is simple (and relatively cheap) to do and tough to automate. E.g. that is why we don’t see -general purpose- housekeeping robots. One way to address this is to change the nature of the problem. E.g. Toll taking. People used to say that there will always be toll takers since taking cash and making change is tough to automate. Now, in the SF bay area, machines take pictures of your license plates, register the debt on a central server and make it the drivers problem to figure out what happened and pay online; otherwise they receive a bill in the mail with the original toll fee plus late charges. Voila “Making Change” problem solved. Stuff that is “creative” that we don’t understand. E.g. the computer in Star Trek that gives -good- spoken english answers to spoken english questions. We can’t do machine deduction that well yet. Changing the nature of the problem: Google has basically recorded all common questions it has been asked, stored all the common answers and just looks them up. Quora uses a mechanical turk. Both used typed input instead of spoken english. | 4/25/2018 |
What are some profound and concise prototype codes related to machine learning, especially for learning and inference parts? | Coursera 's machine learning exercises have code. It is pretty concise. However it probably relevant that the the teacher of the course has moved to Baidu Labs and is emphasizing the embedding deep learning algorithms in GPUs. | 11/9/2014 |
What are some project designs at the intersection of bioinformatics and pharmacology and what is the carrer outlook for PhDs in computational biology? | Not clear on careers. One of my kids started out in BioInformatics (UCSD) and changed to CS after visiting a career fair. Now at Amazon. Another started out in BioMechanics (Cornell) (prostheses) and wound up a mechE at Apple. A nephew has a BioMechanical Phd (Heart Valves) and makes less than the other two who only have a Masters. I suspect the issue is the long approval/product cycle coupled with high development costs and liability issues. | 5/10/2018 |
What are some project ideas on Scientific Computing? | It is well known that Chaos theory - Wikipedia arose from the observation that things like weather simulations were highly dependent on mathematical precision. I have not seen an exposition of how particular problem classes are dependent on the precision of the machine they are simulated on. E.g. suppose you do a simulation of a Double Pendulum -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics. Can you make a plot of when the simulations start to diverge as a function of bits of precision? | 1/9/2017 |
What are some project invention ideas for a 5th grader? | Create a lightweight bridge hold a several hundred pounds. Check this out: www.SisterZone.com | 9/29/2016 |
What are some real life projects I can do with high school calculus? | Quantitative Finance E.g. this source extended Harry Markowitz' basic risk/reward model of portfolios and minimized it to determine the concrete values of the coefficients for each member of the portfolio. The issue you will most likely encounter in this (or most other) fields will be terminology. If you can absorb it, application of the math is often pretty straightforward. | 3/21/2016 |
What are some reasons why people predict automation and robots will deprive humans of jobs? Won't automation provide new sorts of work for people? | If they can be retrained… | 11/30/2017 |
What are some side projects I can develop in order to demonstrate skill to find jobs? | Could use a little more context here. Are you a brick layer, a contractor, a programmer, what? However, whatever the job, the goal is to find a project showing exceptional skill. From your profile it seems you like programs, so I’ll assume that. One thing you could do is find some non-profit or charity you like, ask for a project that they need done and do a bang-up job at that. E.g. if you are a web developer, build or refurbish their website. | 3/3/2018 |
What are some side projects that you are passionate about? | Curing Cancer. Given I have no formal background in Biology/Medicine, that makes it quite a challenge. | 2/20/2018 |
What are some simple projects in pytochemicals? | No exactly my field, but I’d do spectral analysis to detect their presence, i.e. shine a light on various types of plants and see what colors are reflected back. You can use a cheap spectrometer for that and relate the spectrum to the pytochemicals present. Simpler still is to illuminate various plants with different LED colors and see what they look like. In effect, you are using your eyes as the spectrometer in this experiment. | 12/22/2017 |