AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning
Janelle Shane

Janelle Shane

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Friday May 02, 2014

Friday May 02, 2014

The cliffs of fluffiness! Lashed by impossibly pointy nano-waves. The fluffy stuff at the top is actually photoresist, a glassy substance that we use to protect semiconductor from plasma bombardment when we’re doing our etching. Here, the photoresist protected the semiconductor below it from being etched away, making the
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The cliffs of fluffiness!  Lashed by impossibly pointy nano-waves. The fluffy stuff at the top is actually photoresist, a glassy substance that we use to protect semiconductor from plasma bombardment when we’re doing our etching.  Here, the photoresist protected the semiconductor below it from being etched away, making the
Saturday April 26, 2014

Saturday April 26, 2014

The color makeup of a fluorescent light, imaged through a spectrometer made of folded paper and a chunk of DVD. You can print and fold your own for free following the instructions here [http://publiclab.org/wiki/foldable-spec] (they also have a kit [http://store.publiclab.org/products/foldable-mini-spectrometer] , which
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The color makeup of a fluorescent light, imaged through a spectrometer made of folded paper and a chunk of DVD.  You can print and fold your own for free following the instructions here [http://publiclab.org/wiki/foldable-spec] (they also have a kit [http://store.publiclab.org/products/foldable-mini-spectrometer] , which
Thursday April 24, 2014

Thursday April 24, 2014

Smiley face lasers! Now decorating our office door. Left half: Top view showing the light distribution in the lasers - these are whispering gallery modes [http://tmblr.co/ZP7VLs1AcrIut], where the light bounces around the laser’s perimeter. Right half: Diagram of the lasers (red), their glassy coatings (greenish), and
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Smiley face lasers!  Now decorating our office door. Left half: Top view showing the light distribution in the lasers - these are whispering gallery modes [http://tmblr.co/ZP7VLs1AcrIut], where the light bounces around the laser’s perimeter. Right half: Diagram of the lasers (red), their glassy coatings (greenish), and
Monday April 14, 2014

Monday April 14, 2014

Sometimes the view under an electron microscope can be positively scary. I’ll be scrolling along at low magnification, checking out some nanoscale features, when all of a sudden a colossus will loom huge above the nanolandscape. Sometimes I actually jump. Usually it’s a tiny microscopic speck of dust,
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Sometimes the view under an electron microscope can be positively scary.  I’ll be scrolling along at low magnification, checking out some nanoscale features, when all of a sudden a colossus will loom huge above the nanolandscape.  Sometimes I actually jump.  Usually it’s a tiny microscopic speck of dust,
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