AI pioneer says machine learning may work on test sets, but that’s a long way from real world use

New research is intensifying the debate — with profound implications for the future of the planet.

An old article, now removed due to being an old time capsule.

He will work under John Giannandrea, who also left Google for Apple.

Use of a Linux initramfs to fully automate the bootstrapping process - fosslinux/live-bootstrap

Introduction

COVID-19 drove a mass social experiment in working from home (WFH). We survey more than 30,000 Americans over multiple waves to investigate whether WFH will stick, and why. Our data say that 20 percent of full workdays will be supplied from home after the…

We demonstrate strong self-referential effects in county-level data concerning use of the death penalty. We first show event-dependency using a repeated-event model. Higher numbers of previous events reduce the expected time delay before the next event. Second…

Turn dynamically linked ELF binaries and libraries into self-contained closures. - tweag/clodl

Whatever field you are in, if it uses language, it is about to be transformed.

Using the power of randomness to answer scientific questions.

Inside the all-hands meeting that led a third of the company to quit, and an executive to resign

Investigators, family, and friends are still trying to close the case of Paul Fugate, a naturalist at Arizona’s Chiricahua National Monument who vanished without a trace in 1980. What keeps them motivated to stick with a mystery that may be unsolvable?

Natalia Mykhaylova’s Toronto-based company WeavAir sells sensor and data-collection technology designed to improve air quality, cut maintenance and energy costs, and improve efficiency in places ranging from mass transit hubs to hotels.

Workers had questions, leadership did not have answers

The common theme in many time-travel movies is to go back in time to find out what went wrong and fix it. Developers also have that desire to go back in time and find why the code broke and fix it

Despite lockdown surge the firm’s Luxembourg unit made a €1.2bn loss and therefore paid zero corporation tax

Google throws custom silicon at YouTube’s massive video-transcoding workload.

Would you like to win one hundred million bucks from Elon Musk? Carbon capture (CC) is all the rage these days, with dozens of companies springing up to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and help stab…