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Hands-on signal generation in few lines of codes, using PythonPhoto by Clint Bustrillos on UnsplashImagine that you have pain in your knee. You go to a doctor and you want to understand if your leg is broken or not.Now imagine that the doctor gives you the following response:“To understand if your leg is broken or not, let me first break the other leg and see if they look similar or not”I’m sure you would change doctor straight away. :)Nonetheless, this is what we mostly do with the components in engineering!If you want…

An international team of researchers experimenting with the function of the endocannabinoid system have shown how it can be manipulated to combat obesity with the help of a synthetic peptide. The studies carried out on mice demonstrate how the treatment can prevent weight gain and keep diabetes at bay even on high-fat diets, and that it has the capacity to convert white fat into a more desirable brown form.Discovered in the 1990s via research into the effects of cannabis on the human brain, the endocannabinoid system is a…

AI bias is a serious issue that can have a variety of consequences for individuals. As artificial intelligence progresses, issues and ethical dilemmas surrounding data science solutions begin to surface. Because humans have removed themselves from the decision-making process, they want assurance that the judgments made by these algorithms are neither prejudiced nor discriminating. AI must be overseen at all times. We can’t state that the possible bias is caused by AI because it’s a digital system based…

Getty ImagesInterest rate swaps -- those forward contracts in which one form of future interest payment is swapped for others based on a specific principal amount -- have found a home in the world of decentralized finance.Voltz Protocol said Wednesday that it has launched DeFi's first synthetic, capital-efficient interest rate swap AMM, which will now provide the means for DeFi to compete with the interest rate swap marketplace in traditional finance, unleashing new possibilities for decentralized applications…

Vishal Chawla / The Block: BlockSec: a buggy smart contract of Mirror Protocol, a Terra DeFi app for betting on stocks with synthetic assets, was exploited for ~$90M over seven months — Quick Take — The exploit was accidentally discovered by a Terra community member last week. — It has been confirmed by security analysts BlockSec. Vishal Chawla / The Block: BlockSec: a buggy smart contract of Mirror Protocol, a Terra DeFi app for betting on stocks with synthetic assets, was…

Four cubic colloids made from glass. Credit: TU DelftA new way to build synthetic materials out of tiny glass particles – so-called colloids – has been found by researcher Laura Rossi and her group at TU Delft. Together with their colleagues from Queen’s University and the University of Amsterdam, they showed that they can simply use the shape of these colloids to make interesting building blocks for new materials, regardless of other properties of the colloidal particles. Rossi: “This is striking, because it opens up a…

Anthem Inc.’s chief information officer says he is working with Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud to create a synthetic data platform that will let the health insurance company better detect fraud and offer personalized care to its members. Anil Bhatt said the plan is to use algorithms and statistical models to generate approximately 1.5 to 2 petabytes of synthetic data, including artificially generated data sets of medical…

Scientists have created new artificial microbes by combining two very different organisms into one functioning entity. The hybrid of a yeast and a bacterium adds evidence to a long-standing hypothesis on how advanced life may have evolved.Inside the cells of complex lifeforms are tiny, separate organs called organelles, some of which have their own separate genomes to that of the larger organism. That includes the mitochondria in animals and chloroplasts in plants, both of which generate energy for the organism. A leading…