I mention Vietnam because, although “Slaughterhouse-Five” is a book about the Second World War, Vietnam is also a presence in its pages, and people’s feelings about Vietnam have a good deal to do with the novel’s huge success. In Vonnegut’s novel “Breakfast of Champions,” we learn about another Kilgore Trout story, “Now It Can Be Told,” written in the form of a letter from the Creator of the Universe addressed to the reader of the story. Throughout the many works by Kurt Vonnegut in which Kilgore Trout appears, he is consistently described as the worst writer in the world, whose books are utter failures, and who is completely and even contemptuously ignored.

To accelerate progress in this space, we’re sharing AI Habitat, a new simulation platform created by Facebook AI that’s designed to train embodied agents (such as virtual robots) in photo-realistic 3D environments. While AI Habitat can run Replica’s state-of-the-art reconstructions right now, the platform also works with existing 3D assets created for embodied research, such as the Gibson and Matterport3D data sets. Though we built AI Habitat to work with existing data sets of 3D environments, the future of this platform — and of embodied AI research more broadly — is in simulated environments that are increasingly indistinguishable from real life.

Designed for environmental monitoring, Enviro+ lets you measure air quality (pollutant gases and particulates*), temperature, pressure, humidity, light, and noise level. Enviro+ is an affordable alternative to environmental monitoring stations that can cost tens of thousands of pounds and, best of all, it’s small and hackable and lets you contribute your data to citizen science efforts to monitor air quality via projects like Luftdaten. Temperature, air pressure and humidity can all affect particulate levels too, so the BME280 sensor on Enviro+ is really important to understanding the particulate data too.

By the time I was seventeen I was rather proud of my attainments and fond of imagining that I knew what life was all about, even though whatever I did know came out of books. My father would not have allowed me to drop out of the university and devote all my time to painting, but I used to cut my morning classes and go to Rozsda’s studio to paint. Knowing the mood my father was in, I was certain he would try to drag me out of the house and take me back home; he might have a harder time of it, I thought, if I was as far away from the front door as possible.

Queens has significantly fewer calls per capita than any other borough in NYC, based on the NYC 311 Service Call dataset. Using custom SQL queries, a table (right) was created that incorporates data from the pie chart and also includes population related columns. One of the most amazing things about OmniSci Immerse is the ability to dig into a specific subset of data and be able to instantly cross filter all the other charts that you’ve added to your dashboard.

Quanta Magazine spoke with Wilkinson about the emotional dimensions of mathematical discovery, bizarre examples of dynamical systems that she’s found, and the idea of a “safe space” in mathematics. The future of our solar system is just the trajectory of a single point through this massive dynamical system. For me there are some interesting big questions like: What are the general mechanisms we can find for certain types of long-term behaviors in a dynamical system?

It does so through “the algorithm” — YouTube’s recommendation engine. YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is a set of rules followed by cold, hard computer logic. In 2016, a paper by three Google employees revealed the deep neural networks behind YouTube’s recommended videos, which rifle through every video we’ve previously watched.

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The controversial prospect of extraditions from Hong Kong to mainland China has thrown fresh doubt on the city’s status as a global financial hub. A bill that would allow alleged criminals to be extradited to China has sparked the biggest public unrest in years. Aside from the short-term disruption, some in Hong Kong say the bill poses legal risks for employees, who for now are protected by the autonomy Hong Kong enjoys under a framework with China dubbed “one country, two systems.”