Friday 3rd of May 2024 Reading time: 3 min Solar is clean energy, but its production is inconsistent by nature as it is subject to ever-changing weather. So how can we accurately forecast output? This challenge, set by the IEEE Power & Energy Society competition, was taken up by Wided Hammedi, Research Engineer at Orange. …
In 1973, the writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated an adage meant to capture the relationships humans were building with their machines: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” The line became known as Clarke’s Third Law, and it is regularly invoked today as a reminder of technology’s giddy possibilities. Its true prescience, though, lay …
Researchers from MIT and ETH Zurich have developed a machine learning-based technique to speed up the optimization process used by companies like FedEx for routing packages. This approach, which simplifies a key step in mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) solvers and tailors the process using a company’s own data, has resulted in a 30 to 70 …
Faruk Tokluoğlu/Pexels Powerful earthquakes in urban areas can cause a shocking amount of devastation, with lives lost and buildings destroyed. Indeed, more than 60,000 people have already died in such events in this year alone. Ever since scientists discovered what causes these awful catastrophes, they’ve also been trying to predict them in a bid to …