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Alex Kantrowitz at The Big Technology: The AI field has made remarkable progress with incomplete data. Leading generative models like Claude, Gemini, GPT-4, and Llama can understand text but not
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Francesco Pacifico in Paris Review: My first conversations with Jhumpa Lahiri took place in Rome this past July, in her apartment near the Janiculum, above Trastevere. It was an extremely hot
Lessons from anthropology can help prevent them. Ron Barrett in The Conversation: The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the
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Erik Baker in the Boston Review: One of the courses I teach is called “Science, Activism, and Political Conflict,” and one of my ambitions with that course is to show
Indonesia is the eighth-largest contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Therefore, its role in global decarbonization is increasingly critical. With historical trends indicating a potential doubling of its emissions
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Rather than using concrete to channel away rainwater, it is best to work with nature to absorb, clean and use the water. Jack Marley at The Imagine Newsletter of The Conversation:
Continue readingCities and Homes Weren’t Built For This Climate
By Peter Savodnik in The Free Press: It was probably January 2023 when Joseph Rose, a 49-year-old YouTuber from Tallahassee, Florida, realized God had sent him to Moscow. “I do
by John Allen Paulos at 3 Quarks Daily: An abstract paradox discussed by Yale economist Martin Shubik has a logical skeleton that can, perhaps surprisingly, be shrouded in human flesh
By Rosemarie Bodenheimer (RB) & Philip Davis (PD) at OUP Blog: RB lives outside Boston in the United States, PD across the Mersey from Liverpool, England. We have never met
By Dan Go at The High Performance Journal: I’m removing most processed sugars and ultra-processed foods from my diet. These foods have been correlated with diseases like cancer, heart disease,
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Tasneem Zehra Husain in New Humanist: If science has a native tongue, it is mathematics. Equations capture, precisely, the relationships among the elements of a system; they allow us to pose
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