
Nerve interfaces and infrared fossil finding
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Machine Learning and the Discovery of Ambiguous Samples
Using machine learning, using computer algorithm statistics, all those kind of tools, you're able to access very tiny detail that you would have missed if you would just qualitatively analyze your data. The idea behind looking at this very, very famous site was that we can recognize with our eyes what the fossil are. And so when we look at the signature, we can do sort of a positive matching. You have a positive control over your data. So now we could go back in time in in fossil assemblages that are one billion, one and a half billion years old.
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