This is a far cry from the field’s reputation in the 1990s, when Wooldridge was finishing his PhD. AI was still seen as a weird, fringe pursuit; the wider tech sector viewed... Read more »

But the silicon switches in your laptop’s central processor don’t inherently understand the word “for” or the symbol “=.” For a chip to execute your Python code, software must translate these words... Read more »

But a close look at energy and emissions data around the world shows that there are a few bright spots of good news, and a lot of potential progress ahead.  For example,... Read more »

Why it matters: Scientists believe that spraying sulfur dioxide or other reflective particles into the stratosphere in sufficient quantities might be able to offset some level of global warming. But the unknown... Read more »

Why it matters: Scientists believe that spraying sulfur dioxide or other reflective particles into the stratosphere in sufficient quantities might be able to offset some level of global warming. But the unknown... Read more »

But the speed at which JWST has made discoveries is due to more than its intrinsic capabilities. Astronomers prepared for years for the observations it would make, developing algorithms that can rapidly... Read more »

Luke Iseman, previously a director of hardware at Y Combinator and now the cofounder of a geoengineering startup, says he added a few grams of sulfur dioxide into a pair of weather... Read more »

1 Covid is being left off death certificates in ChinaMedical professionals are being pressured to cite other causes of death. (FT $)+ China’s cracking down on covid-related “gloomy sentiments.” (The Guardian)+ There’s been... Read more »