He teaches schoolchildren about how bombs were tested, and how – more than 30 years after the site was decommissioned – the community is only really beginning to understand radiation's powerfully harmful effects

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Research shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated

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studies calculating the role of the climate crisis in what are now unnatural disasters show 550 heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts and wildfires have been made significantly more severe or more frequent by global heating

So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries:
One was Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist who spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism.
The second was Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics.
The third was Fei-Fei Li. She created an image dataset that seemed ludicrously large to most of her colleagues. But it turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs

No single company is more responsible for thinning out America’s chip manufacturing than Apple

Working on problems in the order I noticed them is rarely the most effective order. So the WTF Notebook gives me a place to park the impulse to fix it now, damn it! until I have more context for deciding what to work on first

More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved, a study of more than seven million digital publications suggests