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Cell phone app understands your cat’s facial expressions

July 29, 2021July 28, 2021 by Michael Broad

AI in cellphone app can read feline facial expressions

A cell phone (smartphone) app, in development, but in beta version called Tably, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to be able to read a domestic cat’s facial expressions to tell the owner how their cat feels. It is an interesting development on the back of previous studies which showed that domestic cats do have subtle …

Schrödinger’s cat is an analogy for the “superposition” of quantum computers

September 7, 2020 by Michael Broad

Diagram of Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. Roughly based on Schroedingerscat3.jpg.

Quantum computing is a concept which is still being pursued as one that can be commercially exploited. It is based upon the thought experiment of Schrödinger’s cat. Or perhaps it is better to say that Schrödinger’s cat illustrates the concept of “quantum superposition”. Schrödinger’s cat In this almost unintelligible thought experiment a cat is …