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3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (178+ words) Ask Bruce Hendrickson to describe his life and he’ll give you the bullet points: “Grew up in Massachusetts, went to trade school, majored in carpentry (did that for 15 years), met my wife, married, moved to Waldoboro because I liked it…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (322+ words) Scientists have discovered dozens of peer-reviewed papers containing a completely fabricated term that does not exist in scientific discourse. It originated from errors in optical character recognition and machine translation and later entered databases used to train AI models, according…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (463+ words) OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published Jakub Pachocki An Alien Mind on September 6, 2026 to warn that reasoning models are accelerating toward recursive self-improvement. He traces that conviction to a night in mid-2023 inside the RLSlow project, when scaling let pretrained models…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (251+ words) In Episode 21 of Beyond Bylines, Bristol Herald Courier editor David McGee talks with Washington County Public School superintendent Dr. Keith Perrigan talks about the future of WCPS. Dr. Perrigan discusses the decline in enrollment inside Patrick Henry High School and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (829+ words) With an expanded role in NSF AI4OPT’s second phase, USC will lead AI for Optimization research, bring together a larger interdisciplinary team and host the Seth Bonder summer camp AI 4 Optimization (Credit: Dall-E) The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (426+ words) A new study shows that digital twins don’t respond like the individuals they were modeled after A new study suggests that behavioral scientists should use digital twins with caution. Replacing human subjects with AI surrogates, or digital twins, is on…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (160+ words) The Flagstaff City–Coconino County Public Library and the American Library Association (ALA) invite the community to celebrate Library Card Sign-Up Month this September. This year’s theme, “A Library Card Hits All the Right Notes,” celebrates the many ways a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (428+ words) Dominick Olivanti and Betsy Olivanti gave presentations at the Aitkin County Board meeting Aug. 25. Aitkin County gained six new businesses in 2026 (this is a net increase so there is likely more than six new and allowing for some closed), according…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1049+ words) Historically, a comprehensive study of astronomy was a prerequisite for being regarded as educated, a requirement that extended to lawyers, physicians, and theologians alike. This exemplifies the nature of medieval education. Mercury was responsible for this phenomenon — not the retrograde…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (320+ words) 'AI could transform the NHS by spotting deadly diseases before it’s too late' AOL.co.uk Artificial intelligence is too often discussed as something to fear. In our hospitals, it may save thousands of lives. New research showing AI could…...