Monday 2 November
Today's 45 minutes
In order: the lesson first, while attention is freshest, then the day's one to three current intelligence stories. The closing questions are the part that makes it stick.
Step 01 · Lesson
31 minHow Sensors Turn the Physical World Into Data
Every measurement is a translation. This lesson follows a physical quantity from the world, through a transducer and an analog front end, into numbers you can trust — and shows exactly where that trust is won or lost.
Start readingLesson 0117 September 202631 minfoundationDemoStep 02 · Intelligence · 3 stories
14 min totalAI Is Reshaping How Cameras Capture Light
A Nature Reviews survey of computational light-field detection, alongside a separately funded Rice project on generative cameras, points at imaging systems that measure less and reconstruct more.
Intelligence19 September 20265 minintermediateA Tactile Sensor That Computes Where It Senses
Peer-reviewed work presents a vision-based tactile sensor built on an in-sensor-computing paradigm, collapsing part of the usual gap between raw sensing, data transfer and perception.
Intelligence19 September 20264 minintermediateAI Is Starting to Build a Digital Map of Smell
A Yale-led team used machine learning to predict how similar two complex odour mixtures smell to people — the clearest step yet toward quantitative olfaction, and still a long way from an artificial nose.
Intelligence19 September 20265 minintermediate
Step 03 · 2 minutes
Say the answers out loud
- What is the measurand in my system, and what physical effect actually converts it into a signal?
- What is the transfer function of my sensor, and over what range is it linear?
- If my ADC is 12-bit, what is one least-significant bit worth in physical units?