Author Archives: TheGeek

Pacers forward named as likeliest trade candidate for team this summer

The Indiana Pacers have been a good basketball team these days. Led by Tyrese Haliburton and Pascal Siakam, they reached the Eastern Conference Finals last season, and right now they’re firmly in fourth place in the East after delivering a convincing 119-103 win over Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday. However, no one… Read More »

You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom

On Thursday, Google and the Computer History Museum (CHM) jointly released the source code for AlexNet, the convolutional neural network (CNN) that many credit with transforming the AI field in 2012 by proving that “deep learning” could achieve things conventional AI techniques could not. Deep learning, which uses multi-layered neural networks that can learn from… Read More »