NVIDIA NVIDIA knows how to swing for the fences, and they did just that at this years GTC (GPU Technology Conference). At GTC 2015, NVIDIA CEO Jen Hsun Huang announced a multitude of new products, all of them having a very strong focus on Deep Learning. Deep Learning is a term coined by the industry which combines the broad field of machine learning with the application of deep neural networks. In fact, all three of NVIDIAs major keynotes were all about deep learning in one way or another, in addition to the four new product announcements focused on Deep Learning. This event, which has always traditionally been more technical and research heavy has always had a decent amount of graphics technology and graphics talks, but this year was incredibly heavy on the Deep Learning.

Why is NVIDIA betting on Deep Learning?

NVIDIA has a lot of different business segments, their mobile business is mostly being driven by their automotive business which both share similar if not the same SoCs. However, NVIDIA has been challenged to get their mobile SoCs into big volumes of smartphones, which is really where the volumes are in the mobile SoC business. They can win a few high-end tablets where gaming is really appreciated, including perhaps a design of their own, but that will unlikely bring profitability to their mobile SoC business. Thankfully, their automotive business appears to be taking off and they keep getting more and more significant design wins that continue to give them momentum in automotive. If nothing else, they have the thought-leader crown in automotive.

In addition to their relatively small size of the mobile SoC business, NVIDIA already has more than 75% share in the discrete GPU market and has even more share in professional discrete graphics. This has been the case for years, and NVIDIA is using Deep Learning as a way to expand the professional market in which they want to win in the future. NVIDIA stated at GTC (GPU Technology Conference) that in the past 7 years, there has been a 10x growth in GPU computing with more than 3 million CUDA downloads, 319 applications, 800 universities teaching, 60,000 academic papers and over 450,000 Tesla GPUs. All of that comes out to 54 Petaflops (54,000 Teraflops) of GPU compute power compared to just 77 Teraflops in 2008. They want to continue to grow the overall size of the professional graphics market and encourage those new buyers of GPUs to buy NVIDIA graphics cards. That leads us into NVIDIAs four major announcements.

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang talks about GPU Compute Growth (Credit: Anshel Sag)

What bets is NVIDIA making in Deep Learning?

NVIDIAs bet on Deep Learning is a fairly big one, but it likely wont manifest itself in the short term as much of Deep Learning still requires lots of post-graduate and graduate-level research at universities which can eventually trickle into the private sector. We are already starting to see the beginnings of that with Google and Baidu Baidu, but for it to become a large industry, there will need to be more people working on Deep Learning problems than there are now.

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Toad-proof fences around dams can prevent the pests from cooling down in the hot, arid zones of Australia, killing them in large enough numbers to stop their spread. This is the first study to demonstrate long-term control of cane toads, says A/Prof Mike Letnic of UNSW

Letnic, who was lead author of a study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, explained that most of the areas that these toxic amphibians will invade in future are semi-arid or arid. Cane toads need water to survive, and we have previously shown they use the dams as refuges in the hot, dry periods. They enter the water during the day to cool down and rehydrate. Then, when the rainy period returns, they move on from these dry season refuges into new territory.

To determine the impact of restricting access to the water, the researchers constructed small fences from shade cloth around three dams in the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory and maintained them for a year. Toads could not jump over the fences or burrow under them.

The toads were still attracted to the water but they died en masse while attempting to settle at the fenced dams. Their numbers remained suppressed for a further year. By comparison, there were 10 to 100 times more toads living at the unfenced dams that were used as controls in the study, Letnic says.

By excluding toads from dams, we converted their invasion refuges into ecological traps and thwarted their spread, Letnic says. If conducted strategically, excluding toads from man-made water sources could effectively control their populations across large areas of Australia and relieve the impacts that cane toads are having on native predators and dung beetles.

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In a healthy sign of mending fences diplomatically amid a long period of an estranged relationship bordering on hostility, the governments of India and Pakistan finally seem to have come together. This has resulted in the safe return of 57 boats belonging to Gujarat fishermen that were impounded by Pakistan's Navy.

In a healthy sign of mending fences diplomatically amid a long period of an estranged relationship bordering on hostility, the governments of India and Pakistan finally seem to have come together. This has resulted in the safe return of 57 boats belonging to Gujarat fishermen that were impounded by Pakistan's Navy.

Indian fishermen are slated to receive these boats at Porbandar, on Monday afternoon. The last time something like this had happened was in 2004. 53 Indian boats were brought back from Pakistan. Each of these boats is about 4 to 5 years old and cost around Rs 24-26 lakh.

Interestingly, the 57 boats would be handed over by the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) to the Indian Coast Guard in the same area as the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) where a suspicious Pakistani boat had sunk under mysterious circumstances on New Year's Eve.

The ministry of external affairs (MEA) and Indian high commission at Islamabad with the help of the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) arranged for the inspection and return of these boats to India.

After several rounds of discussions with Pakistan, the Indian team including representatives of the Indian high commission, Islamabad, inspected the boats and projected a fund requirement of Rs 1.28 crore for the repair and return of the boats.

The Union home ministry in consultation with the Gujarat government sanctioned the amount on an urgent basis with a view to expedite repair work.

The home ministry also arranged the movement of an 8-member team on March 10 as proposed by the Gujarat government to Pakistan for inspection, repair and return of the boats.

As per protocol, the boats were towed away by Pakistani trawlers to a designated location at a site along the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) in sea water under the supervision of the PMSA and then towed away by Indian fishing boats from the IMBL site to the Indian coast in Indian waters under the supervision of the Indian Coast Guard.

To accomplish this feat of building trust, Gujarat arranged for 57 towing boats, 407 fishermen, and 10 state government officials who sailed from Porbander to the designated IMBL site on Sunday to receive the Indian boats from Pakistan.

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March 23, 2015: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks at the Pentagon.(AP)

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, in an apparent effort to mend fences with the U.S. after years of tension under the Karzai government, thanked U.S. troops and taxpayers for their sacrifice and support during a Pentagon ceremony on Monday.

"What I want to state on behalf of the Afghan people is that each one of you also has left a memory in the heart of every Afghan that you've touched and encountered," Ghani said in a message to American troops, honoring the more than 2,000 soldiers who "paid the ultimate sacrifice."

Ghani also offered assurances that his country would not be a burden on the international community as it continues to struggle against the Taliban and its own internal divisions. Defense Secretary Ash Carter welcomed Ghani and Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah at a ceremony in the Pentagon's center courtyard.

Ghani thanked President Obama and top administration officials, but also American taxpayers who "make your hard-earned dollars available for Afghanistan."

His message was welcomed. "Karzai never did this. It's nice to be thanked," one Marine officer told Fox News.

The Afghan president's tone was markedly different from that set by his predecessor, Hamid Karzai, who had a falling out with the U.S. government and left office amid an atmosphere of mutual distrust.

Karzai did thank U.S. taxpayers during a speech in 2012, but by the time he left office his message had changed. In farewell remarks last year, Karzai accused the U.S. of not wanting peace, and thanked a slew of countries for their efforts in Afghanistan -- without thanking the U.S.

At the time, the American ambassador to Afghanistan James Cunningham called the comments "ungracious and ungrateful."

The Pentagon was a poignant setting for the start of Ghani's Washington visit. On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked an American Airlines jetliner and flew it into the Pentagon, killing all aboard and 125 people in the building. The U.S. responded to the attacks on Washington and New York by invading Afghanistan a month later.

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