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Data analysis, tech and fish waste make urban farms viable

In London, in a former bomb shelter underneath Clapham Common, for example, Growing Underground cultivates leafy greens, such as watercress, rocket and coriander. Built to shelter up to 8,000 people during the second world war, its tunnels now house rows of plants.“It was all [done using] standard agricultural equipment, save for LEDs,” says Steve Dring, co-founder of Growing Underground. LEDs [...]

October 31st, 2017|Categories: Science4Data|

An in-depth look at Google’s first Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

There’s a common thread that connects Google services such as Google Search, Street View, Google Photos and Google Translate: they all use Google’s Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, to accelerate their neural network computations behind the scenes Source: An in-depth look at Google’s first Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) | Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog  |  Google Cloud [...]

October 22nd, 2017|Categories: Science4Data|
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