Ambroise Kom, Mongo Beti parle

Ambroise Paré (1510-1590).

study medicine in 1536 and supported himself by lecturing on mathematics, geography and astronomy. In Paris, his teachers included Sylvius and Andermach, who hailed him with Andrea Vesalius as his most able assistant in dissections There he stepped over the line that Christian doctrine had drown between acceptable areas of astrology, and forbidden zone of judicial astrology (left for God-essent...

Parle: parallelizing stochastic gradient descent

We propose a new algorithm called Parle for parallel training of deep networks that converges 2-4× faster than a data-parallel implementation of SGD, while achieving significantly improved error rates that are nearly state-of-the-art on several benchmarks including CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, without introducing any additional hyper-parameters. We exploit the phenomenon of flat minima that has been...

Ambroise Pare and His Times, 1510—1590

Two new neolignans from Syringa velutina Kom.

Two new neolignans, (7S,8R)-guaiacylglycerol-8-O-4'-sinapyl ether 9'-O-beta-D- glucopyranoside (1) and (7S,8R)-syringylglycerol-8-O-4'-sinapyl ether 9'-O-beta-D-gluco- pyranoside (2) were isolated from the leaves of Syringa velutina Kom.. Their structures were established by chemical properties and spectroscopic evidence.

Ambroise August Liébeault and psychic phenomena.

Some nineteenth-century hypnosis researchers did not limit their interest to the study of the conventional psychological and behavioral aspects of hypnosis, but also studied and wrote about psychic phenomena such as mental suggestion and clairvoyance. One example, and the topic of this paper, was French physician Ambroise August Liébeault (1823-1904), who influenced the Nancy school of hypnosis...