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Life-seeking, ice-melting robots could punch through Europas icy shell - MIT Technology Review Researchers are working on technology that could follow NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and hunt for life in the ocean of Jupiter’s moon.
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WorkWhy the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surpriseDuring my first semester as a computer science graduate student at Princeton, I took COS 402: Artificial Intelligence. Toward the end of the semester there was a lecture about neural networks. This was in the fall of 2008, and I got the distinct impression—both from that lecture and the textbook—that neural networks had become a backwater. WorkWhat happens to Trump's legal troubles now?Former President Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 election, according to AP and CNN projections, after he won Wisconsinthe state that also gave him victory eight years agowhich made it impossible for Vice President Kamala Harris to win the 270 Electoral College votes needed to clinch the presidency.
WorkWhy Kamala Harris lostOur mission could not be more clear and more necessary: We have a duty to explain what just happened, and why, and what it means for you. We need clear-eyed journalism that helps you understand what really matters. Reporting that brings clarity in increasingly chaotic times. Reporting that is driven by truth, not by what people in power want you to believe. WorkThe Reddening of New York City - Curbed It was a grim night. All over, and here too. Kamala Harris took New York City as expected, but with a slightly smaller margin than what we saw for Democrats in the 2020 election.Harris received 68 percent of the citys vote to Trumps 30 percent with over 97 percent counted. This was a dip from previous years: Joe Biden won 76 percent in 2020 and Hillary Clinton won 79 percent in 2016.
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WorkWorkWhen a Performance Improvement Plan Could Help Your Employee - Harvard Business Review A Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is a formal approach to remedy an employees performance gaps, including failures to meet specific job goals orbehavior-related concerns. The plan outlines the existing issues and defines what new outputs and behaviors are needed by when. But is a PIP the right choice for your situation? Will it work? Is it worth the effort? Here are some tips on determining if a PIP is the right path and, if so, how to implement one optimally.
WorkWhen is a poll not a poll? - WSJ In this years New York Times/Siena College surveys, pollsters received a response from only 2% of the people they contacted, the Times reports. Response rates have been plunging for years: The Pew Research Center reported a decline from 36% in 1997 to 6% in 2019. As a result, pollsters do a lot of massaging of the data to produce a projection. They use complex models based on age, race and education, but these have plenty of opportunity for error because nonresponders can be very different from the responders. Election analysts at NBC even found evidence that pollsters manipulated their data to claim that races were tied. They showed that projections for swing states had less than the expected statistical fluctuations. WorkFed readies a rate cut and faces these four questions - WSJ The Federal Reserve is widely expected to cut interest rates by a quarter-percentage point at its meeting that ends Thursday. The bigger question is how many more cuts officials expect will be warranted to preserve a solid job market without reversing recent declines in inflation.
WorkHow Donald Trump wonby being Donald Trump - WSJ Throughout Trumps campaign, the Republican Party candidate was bombastic, profane and frequently untruthful, claiming the 2020 race was stolen from him, that he held no responsibility for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress and that President Biden had orchestrated his criminal indictments and felony convictions. Work
WorkWorkWhat Shapes Do Matrix Multiplications Like? [medium]A while back, Karpathy tweeted that increasing the size of his matmul made it run faster. Surprisingly, it’s not just relatively faster, it takes less absolute time. In other words, despite doing more work, it is executing in less time.
WorkGoogle Is Now Watermarking Its AI-Generated TextThe chatbot revolution has left our world awash in AI-generated text: It has infiltrated our news feeds, term papers, and inboxes. It's so absurdly abundant that industries have sprung up to provide moves and countermoves. Some companies offer services to identify AI-generated text by analyzing the material, while others say their tools will "humanize" your AI-generated text and make it undetectable. Both types of tools have questionable performance, and as chatbots get better and better, it will only get more difficult to tell whether words were strung together by a human or an algorithm. Work WorkWorkCenters Chosen for U.S. Chip Revival PlanLast week the organization tasked with running the the biggest chunk of U.S. CHIPS Act's US $13 billion R&D program made some significant strides: The National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) released a strategic plan and selected the sites of two of three planned facilities and released a new strategic plan. The locations of the two sitesâa "design and collaboration" center in Sunnyvale, Calif., and a lab devoted to advancing the leading edge of chipmaking, in Albany, N.Y.âbuild on an existing ecosystem at each location, experts say. The location of the third planned centerâa chip prototyping and packaging site that could be especially critical for speeding semiconductor startupsâis still a matter of speculation. WorkWorkIt's 'Trump's America'Trump became the first former president in more than 120 years to get elected for a second nonconsecutive term by shifting the country to the right. Compared to 2020, Trump made gains in every corner of the country and with nearly every demographic group. He made big gains in blue America, and appeared to make his largest gains among Hispanic voters. WorkFighting Climate Change Was 'Never an America-Only Game'Banga said in the wake of Trump’s re-election, making strides in the rest of the world will be more important than ever. “It was never an America-only game,” he said. “It was always a developed world and middle-income-country game.” WorkWorkOpenAI bought the web domain Chat.comOpenAI hasn’t said how much it paid for Chat.com, but it confirmed with TechCrunch that it bought the domain. And if you’re expecting drastic changes from OpenAI’s chatbot, the move isn’t likely tied to a ChatGPT rebrand. Regardless, the domain now redirects to the world-changing AI tool. WorkWorkWorkCalifornians ordered to evacuate as explosive wildfires eruptMeanwhile, Pacific Gas and Electric Company cut the power to tens of thousands of accounts across the state in an attempt to limit possible ignitions during the dangerous conditions. Roughly 46,000 customers were also without power across several counties, including in Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara, after Southern California Edison issued planned shutoffs to mitigate wildfire risks. The company reported that another 228,000 more were at risk of losing power through Thursday, due to the dangerous conditions. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkMoradaUno wants to make it easier to rent apartments in Mexico | TechCrunch“It’s really cool to be able to give access [to] people that otherwise would have not been able to rent,” Morales said. “Now you’re giving them an option. That’s very powerful and exciting. That kind of fuels us every day. And we’re also making the lives of thousands of real estate agents better because they have better tools and more efficient technology.” WorkJefferies Tells ESG Bosses to Keep Lawyers Close After Trump WinAt the same time, shareholders may ask companies to disclose ESG risks in accordance with requirements set by the International Sustainability Standards Board, Jefferies said. The US Chamber of Commerce has said it’s “not opposed to ESG or climate disclosures.” WorkWorkWorkWhat letting RFK Jr. 'go wild' might mean for Trump's FDA In his victory speech, the president-elect name-checked Kennedy again. “He’s going to help make America healthy again,” Trump said. “He’s a great guy and he really means it. He wants to do some things, and we’re gonna let him go to it.” WorkWhat to Know About the Floods That Killed Over 200 in SpainVALENCIA, Spain In a matter of minutes, flash floods caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain swept away almost everything in their path. With no time to react, people were trapped in vehicles, homes and businesses. Many died and thousands of livelihoods were shattered. WorkDonald Trumps Revenge - The New Yorker Electing Donald J. Trump once could be dismissed as a fluke, an aberration, a terrible mistakea consequential one, to be sure, yet still fundamentally an error. But America has now twice elected him as its President. It is a disastrous revelation about what the United States really is, as opposed to the country that so many hoped that it could be. His victory was a worst-case scenariothat a convicted felon, a chronic liar who mismanaged a deadly once-in-a-century pandemic, who tried to overturn the last election and unleashed a violent mob on the nations Capitol, who calls America a garbage can for the world, and who threatens retribution against his political enemies could winand yet, in the early morning hours of Wednesday, it happened. WorkWorkFive surprising things we learned from the 2024 results - WSJ Donald Trump won big. Polls predicted a tossup, but he ended up running the table in swing state after swing state. His third election could end up being his best. Many Americans thought his political career was over after Jan. 6, 2021, but he emerged stronger and with broader coattails, helping sweep more Republicans into power in congressional races as well. This was a movement like nobody has ever seen before," Trump said in the early hours of Wednesday. WorkTurn that stockpile of miles or points into a trip - WSJ Americans are sitting on a massive stockpile of unused travel rewards. Cardholders earned more than $34 billion in credit-card points alone last year, according to reports from American Express, JPMorgan Chase and Capital One. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkHow Trump Connected With So Many AmericansWe were standing inside a barn when she said this. Mr. Trump was a few yards away, sitting at a big wooden table. Behind him were stacked bales of hay and a John Deere tractor. He led a discussion about seed cost and fertilizer and shale and animal feed. Farmers nodded along as he reminded them how expensive everything had become because of inflation. “I feel very comfortable with the farmers,” he said. And they felt very comfortable with him. WorkGrant Ujifusa, 82, Dies; Lobbied for Redress for Japanese AmericansMr. Ujifusa had been a founding editor of The Almanac of American Politics, an insiders’ guide to the districts, voting records and personalities of every member of Congress. Elders in the Japanese American community believed he was uniquely positioned to win support on Capitol Hill. WorkTrump's Victory Is a Major Win for Elon Musk and Big-Money PoliticsWhen Mr. Musk first met with political advisers in the spring, he focused on turning out 800,000 to a million “low-propensity” voters in seven battleground states — people, especially in rural areas, who might be inclined to vote for Mr. Trump but who had spotty voting records. It is yet unclear whether Mr. Musk succeeded on that metric, although Mr. Trump claimed a dominating margin in rural areas, a focus of Mr. Musk’s. WorkWorkWhen Will Donald Trump Take Office?“I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never, ever let you down,” he told hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the west side of the Capitol. “America will start winning again, winning like never before.” |
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