AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning
Janelle Shane

Janelle Shane

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Tuesday July 23, 2013

Tuesday July 23, 2013

Bashful dust particle, viewed under an electron microscope Since our electron microscope isn’t inside the cleanroom, it’s hard to avoid the occasional visiting particle of dust. They appear randomly, like small beings exploring immense and weird landscapes. This one’s microscopic, and stands on a well-scratched metal surface.
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Bashful dust particle, viewed under an electron microscope Since our electron microscope isn’t inside the cleanroom, it’s hard to avoid the occasional visiting particle of dust.  They appear randomly, like small beings exploring immense and weird landscapes.  This one’s microscopic, and stands on a well-scratched metal surface.
Monday July 22, 2013

Monday July 22, 2013

The “light” at the bottom of this glowing crater is all electrons. What you’re seeing here is a thin layer of glass with a hole chipped in it. At the bottom of the hole, just out of the field of view, is a layer of silicon. In the electron
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The “light” at the bottom of this glowing crater is all electrons. What you’re seeing here is a thin layer of glass with a hole chipped in it.  At the bottom of the hole, just out of the field of view, is a layer of silicon.  In the electron
Saturday July 20, 2013

Saturday July 20, 2013

A particle of dust, viewed at around 19,000x in an electron microscope. It’s sitting on a little pedestal that it made itself out of my semiconductor laser material - no, I didn’t give it permission. The dust particle selflessly protected that patch of semiconductor from the harsh
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A particle of dust, viewed at around 19,000x in an electron microscope. It’s sitting on a little pedestal that it made itself out of my semiconductor laser material - no, I didn’t give it permission.  The dust particle selflessly protected that patch of semiconductor from the harsh
Tuesday July 16, 2013

Tuesday July 16, 2013

Microscopic hills along a glass fracture Here, the edge of one of my samples was chipped, and the glass had flaked off in a ridged pattern. The ridges continued right down to the border of the chipped area, where they became microscopic. These hills are so small that you could
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Microscopic hills along a glass fracture Here, the edge of one of my samples was chipped, and the glass had flaked off in a ridged pattern.  The ridges continued right down to the border of the chipped area, where they became microscopic.  These hills are so small that you could
Monday July 15, 2013

Monday July 15, 2013

An upside-down mountain, formed from dust. The whole thing is about the size of a single bacterium. The mountain is, as usual, not supposed to be there - it’s a piece of dust that landed on my sample. Despite doing all my processing work in the cleanroom, it’s
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An upside-down mountain, formed from dust.  The whole thing is about the size of a single bacterium. The mountain is, as usual, not supposed to be there - it’s a piece of dust that landed on my sample.  Despite doing all my processing work in the cleanroom, it’s
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