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Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1968 and 2002.

Guess the year real-world photos were taken. Test your history knowledge with a daily challenge featuring a new set of photos each day.

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It signifies the culmination of a long-term partnership, during which more than 6,000 KT of coal was transported from the Port of Immingham.To mark the end of

Simon Willison breaks down what happened in the LLM space in 2025. Some of it has the potential to transform tech forever.

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang invites his friend, cAI™, to write a manifesto for WePresent regarding the principles of coexistence between humans and AI.

We're voluntarily sharing our safety data to demonstrate how the Waymo Driver is making roads safer in the places we currently operate. See the stats.

Understanding the safety impact of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) is crucial for their widespread adoption, yet robust real-world evaluation remains a critical area of development. By leveraging insurance industry third-party auto liability claims, we analyze the Waymo ADS performance across 25.3 million fully autonomous miles (with no human in the driver seat) and demonstrate a consistent and scalable framework for ongoing ADS safety assessment. This study not only updates previous findings with expanded geographical coverage and increased mileage but also establishes a methodology for comparing ADS performance to evolving subsets of human-driven vehicles (HDV). We introduce two key innovations: a novel "latest-generation HDV" benchmark representing drivers of newer, technologically advanced vehicles (2018-2021), and a robust insurance dataset for ADS safety assessment. Results demonstrate that the Waymo ADS significantly outperformed both the overall driving population (88% reduction in property damage claims, 92% in bodily injury claims), and outperformed the more stringent latest-generation HDV benchmark (86% reduction in property damage claims and 90% in bodily injury claims). This substantial safety improvement 1 over our previous 3.8-million-mile study not only validates ADS safety at scale but also provides a new approach for ongoing ADS evaluation. Our findings provide crucial insights into the evolving safety landscape of ADS technology and have far-reaching implications for transportation safety policies, insurance risk assessments, and public acceptance of ADS technology. This methodology establishes a foundation for future research into the safety impact potential of ADS and offers a framework for assessment as these systems continue to scale and develop.

Research showing that vision language models (VLMs) fail on simple visual tasks that are easy for humans.

The exact same AI-coded page everyone else makes.

Investigating the seahorse emoji doom loop using logitlens.

Playing around with the Representation Engineering paper, I made some interesting control vectors, and a Python package to make your own.

The scale of the ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is pretty astounding. Made with 800 game developers over four years, the title has...

Paris Hilton took a deep dive into the metaverse with her Slivingland experience on Roblox, and her 11:11 Media company has released the results...

The results are impressive and show that a simple training recipe enables the system to learn complex mobile manipulation tasks.

Meta's VFusion3D AI breakthrough transforms 2D images into high-quality 3D models, revolutionizing content creation for VR, gaming, and design industries.

To tackle data-retrieval-based hallucinations in non-diagnostic use cases, Mayo Clinic has applied CURE reverse RAG paired with vector databases.

Industry leaders at DataGrail Summit 2024 warn of AI's exponential growth outpacing security measures, urging companies to invest in robust AI safety systems to mitigate risks and protect consumer trust.

I created Dr. Jen's Menopause Taming Turmeric Supplements to find out just how much

Is this a legacy thing or does a tilted cursor serve a purpose? I can tell that the angle provides a totally vertical left edge which helps when highlighting text but what else apart from that? EDIT:

Clarity, at a glance.

This article is my attempt to enumerate all the possible moats you can count on that will still be relevant in the age of AI

It's the safest, most environmentally friendly, most reliable and sustainable, the best for politics, and can be the cheapest

The costs of some parts of solar farms will drop to near zero. But some obstacles remain to make this energy cheaply available everywhere. As a result, the entire energy industry will change.

Interactive visualization of the history of the latin alphabet, showing the temporal and formal relationships of the different scripts and typefaces to each other