machine learning

What is the hardest thing you think scientists need to do in a lab? Organic chemistry may not be the first thing that comes to mind, but multi-step organic syntheses are easily ranked a top challenge, even among experienced chemists. Nevertheless,…

by Jennifer Wei figures by Jeep Veerasak Srisuknimit Ever wonder how music-streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora find songs that you like? Or how Facebook and Google find stories that are interesting to you? Many technology companies use machine…

Snapshot of a Go game in progress [Image: ‘Go Board Game’ from Sean Welton under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 licence]Computers have been capable of beating the best human chess players for almost two decades, but a week-long stretch earlier this month…