I saw a tweet that tinygrad is so good that you could make a graphics library that wraps tg. So I’ve been hacking on a gtinygrad, and honestly it convinced me it could be used for legit research. The ...
A generation ago, the people of Okinawa in Japan were recognised as among the longest-lived in the world, fortunate residents of one of just five “blue zones” around the planet where a combination of ...
A major arctic blast is stretching from the Midwest to the Northeast, bringing dangerously cold weather to 43 million people....
Earth just experienced a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003 — powerful for satellites and astronauts, but harmless on the ground....
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warned that rapid advances could upend jobs, power, and humanity itself. JORGE UZON/AFP via Getty Images Geoffrey Hinton said he's very sad that the AI he helped create has ...
Dr. Sue Hwang, a radiation oncologist, said her own experience with breast cancer helped her see vulnerability as a strength instead of a weakness. Tim Brown Oncologist Sue Hwang was diagnosed with br...
i've been working with healthcare/biobank data and keep thinking about what "data moats" mean now that llms can ingest anything. some a16z piece from 2019 said moats were eroding — now the question se...
It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before....
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Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Maine tonight as Earth reels from a colossal CME impact....
Crew 11- comprising US astronauts Zena Cardman, 38, and Mike Fincke, 58, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, 55, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, 39 - safely returned to Earth on January 15 from the In...
Hi HN! We're Kamran, Raaid, Laith, and Omeed from Constellation Space. We built an AI system that predicts satellite link failures before they happen ( https://youtu.be/069V9fADAtM ). Between us, we'v...
Is ageing a natural stage of life to be honoured or a biological flaw that humanity should overcome?...
Decades of human activity have left “irreversible damage” to the planet’s water supply, a new report warns....
A cow in Austria has been observed using tools ― the first time such behavior has been recorded in cattle. Have we underestimated the gentle bovines all this time?...
A sample of a polymetallic nodule at the Viridian Biometals lab in Pasadena, California. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea min...
Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's planets formed....
A cow in Austria has been observed using tools ― the first time such behavior has been recorded in cattle. Have we underestimated the gentle bovines all this time?...
When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our space neighborhood....
NASA's first moonshot with astronauts in more than a half-century is set to take place as soon as early February. The moon rocket moves to the pad this weekend at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, with ...