BETA TESTING NOW IN OUR MINDS?? PART 1
I HAVE LONG ARGUED about test tracks being the appropriate—and only prudent—place for evaluating autonomous vehicles. And, particularly with the advent of an A.I.-supported Microsoft Bing, in Parts 1 and … Continue reading
IT TAKES A VILLAGE… TO EAT AN ELEPHANT
RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH suggests that Neanderthals didn’t necessarily live in small groups of brutish humanoids: “On the muddy shores of a lake in east-central Germany,” Andrew Curry writes in Science, … Continue reading
CHATTING ABOUT CHATGPT AND OTHER A.I. PART 2
YESTERDAY, The New York Times offered several viewpoints about ChatGPT, Generative Pre-trained Transformer capabilities (and its potential threats). Today in Part 2, AAAS Science offers insights. And a previously unknown … Continue reading
CHATTING ABOUT CHATGPT AND OTHER A.I. PART 1
CHATGPT, AS IN Generative Pre-trained Transformer, has been much in the news. Maureen Dowd has written about it in The New York Times, January 28, 2023. In a full-page ad … Continue reading
VICTORIAN THOUGHT AND SCIENCE
HOW THE VICTORIANS TOOK US To The Moon is Iwan Rhys Morus’s new book reviewed in Science, January 20, 2023. Both the book and its review by Bernard Lightman are … Continue reading
A CONCRETE EXAMPLE OF REDUCING CO2
A RECENT CBS NEWS ITEM shares fascinating information about reducing global CO2 emissions. Ben Tracy and Analisa Novak give details January 16, 2023, in “Cement Industry Accounts for About 8% … Continue reading
MADE IN SPACE PART 2
YESTERDAY, BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES of space manufacturing were introduced. Today, NASA takes them aboard the International Space Station, where, among other oddities, water doesn’t “drip.” Other researchers explore the benefits … Continue reading
MADE IN SPACE PART 1
TANTALIZING BENEFITS EXIST producing stuff in zero gravity. Here in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow are tidbits gleaned from several sources, including work taking place on the International … Continue reading
“IT DON’T MEAN A THING IF….”
MARIA GODOY REPORTS in NPR, January 18, 2023, “What Makes That Song Swing? At Last, Physicists Unravel a Jazz Mystery.” As a regular listener of “40’s Junction,” SiriusXM’s Swing Era … Continue reading
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