NASA’s treasure map for water ice on Mars

NASA has big plans for returning astronauts to the Moon in 2024, a stepping stone on the path to sending humans to Mars. But where should the first people on the Red Planet land? Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-12-nasa-treasure-ice-mars.html…

Can AI Predict the Stock Market? No, But the Attempt Was Interesting

“We all want to be rich by having a computer just generate piles of money for us,” writes long-time Slashdot reader TekBoy. “Here’s one man’s attempt at using AI to predict the market. From the article (by tinkerer/writer/network guy Jason Bowling): Models that did great during their initial training and validation runs might do ok during runs on later data, but…