This is the public release of MIRA OS. Discrete memories decay through momentum loss, tools auto-configure when dropped into tools/ folder, and the system prompt composes from modular trinkets. I w...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became smaller and less aggressive.

Brian Greene has a new video out today, of himself talking to Edward Witten, mainly about string theory. Pretty much the usual decades-old hype, with nothing even slightly different than what a sim…

Is income inequality in the United States primarily driven by disparities between ethnic groups or within them? The evidence reveals a striking pattern: 96% of U.S. income inequality arises from variation within groups sharing common ancestral origins, far…

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This X-59 3D Printing files are available for download below. The X-59 experimental aircraft is approximately 100 feet long and is designed to fly at Mach 1.4 (925 mph).

Many people seem to believe mathematicians work in non-constructive, non-structural, battered foundations because they love their Platonic realm and have a kink for AC and LEM. The reality is most …

We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the *length* of tasks AI agents can complete. We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doubling time of around 7 months. Extrapolating this trend…

Law firms representing Google and Apple have reportedly warned that employees who need a visa stamp to re-enter the United States should avoid leaving the country due to longer-than-usual visa processing times.

Roughly 42,000 San Francisco households and businesses remain without power following a massive PG&E outage on Saturday that brought a portion of the city to a halt.

Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.

Editor, Hugo van Kemenade,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.15, compared to 3.14. For full details, see the changelog. Summary – Release highlights: PEP 799: A dedicated profilin...

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It was an adventure into the unknown. From the surface all that could be seen was a small opening. The ABC has been given exclusive access to newly-discovered caves on South Australia's Kangaroo Island.

I doubt that anything resembling genuine "artificial general intelligence" is within reach of current #AI tools. However, I think a weaker, but still quite valuable, type of "artificial general cleverness" is becoming a reality in various ways.

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A study shows that young people who use tanning beds have more skin mutations including cells known to lead to skin cancer.

Christian Kriticos explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s long-lost satire of a motorized world.

The Indie Game Awards presented the award last night, only to strip it hours later.

The Inca's precise stonework is often depicted as shrouded in mystery. Yet their construction methods were documented by early Spanish chroniclers. These historical records, supported by physical evidence, reveal how the Inca quarried, transported, split…