Machine Learning: In Plain English

In this article, I will describe how analytics is related to Machine Learning. What Is Machine Learning? Data. It uses Machine Learning techniques to learn how to identify spam from ...


LHC accelerates its first ‘atoms’

During a special one-day run, LHC operators injected lead atoms containing a single electron into the machine. On Wednesday, 25 July, for the very first time, operators injected not ...


Extracting and displaying data with awk

If you need to extract data from files, or simply display data in a new way, you need a script. AWK (usually written as just awk) originates from the 1970s and has become a standard ...


Ytterbium: The quantum memory of tomorrow

Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, in partnership with CNRS, France, have discovered a new material in which an element, ytterbium, can store and protect t...