Street Ethics (2025)

12/06/2025

Protesters in St. Albans, Queens, are rallying against a plan to build a lithium-ion battery farm in their neighborhood.

12/06/2025

03/05/2025

When you poke at even the most general comparison between biological and artificial intelligence — that both learn by processing information across layers of networked nodes — their similarities quickly crumble. Artificial neural networks are “huge simplifications,” said Leo Kozachkov (opens a new tab), a postdoctoral fellow at IBM Research who will soon lead a computational neuroscience lab at Brown University....

When you poke at even the most general comparison between biological and artificial intelligence — that both learn by processing information across layers of networked nodes — their similarities qu…

15/01/2025

A series of savage lurches from intensely dry to fiercely wet conditions helped fuel the horrific winter fires we're currently watching destroy parts of Los Angeles and surrounding wilderness.

15/01/2025

Way Out..!

"There are still many things related to planetary formation and the early evolution of young planetary systems that we don't understand."

11/01/2025

JD Kaim, a University of Washington Computer Science student built a class-trading application for students to swap course spots. He claims the school threatened him with potential expulsion and an ultimatum to make a similar solution for the university without compensation. Student says University of Washington has threatened to expel him for a course-trading app he built for class project - Boing Boing

JD Kaim, a University of Washington Computer Science student built a class-trading application for students to swap course spots. He claims the school threatened him with potential expulsion and an…

16/03/2024

How do highly productive people cram so much work into every waking hour? Could be skill, character, intelligence--or bending the arc of Time itself...