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Following the completion of The Spiral in New York, we take a look at seven of the latest skyscrapers designed by its architect, Danish studio BIG, along with a “landscaper”

From CapitaSpring in Singapore to O-Tower in China, a mix of recently completed projects and others still under construction make up the list of towers by the studio, which was founded in 2005 by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels.

Common threads throughout the projects are the incorporation of greenery to bring occupants closer to nature and unusual forms that challenge traditional boxy skyscrapers that dominate many city skylines.

Numerical simulations reveal that an impact crater’s shape can depend on the impactor’s spin and its degree of cohesion.

Artificial intelligence (AI) not only delivers impressive performance but also demands significant energy. The more complex the tasks it undertakes, the greater the energy consumption. Scientists Víctor López-Pastor and Florian Marquardt from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany, have developed a method for more efficient AI training. Their method utilizes physical processes, diverging from traditional digital artificial neural networks.

Open AI, the company responsible for the development of GPT-3, the technology powering ChatGPT, has not disclosed the amount of energy needed for the training of this advanced and knowledgeable AI Chatbot.

According to the German statistics company Statista, this would require 1,000 megawatt hours – about as much as 200 German households with three or more people consume annually. While this energy expenditure has allowed GPT-3 to learn whether the word ‘deep’ is more likely to be followed by the word ‘sea’ or ‘learning’ in its data sets, by all accounts it has not understood the underlying meaning of such phrases.

Researchers using ALMA

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is the largest ground-based facility for observations in the millimeter/submillimeter regime in the world. ALMA comprises 66 high-precision dish antennas of measuring either 12 meters across or 7 meters across and spread over distances of up to 16 kilometers. It is an international partnership between Europe, the United States, Japan, and the Republic of Chile.

Former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns says she balanced work and family by “outsourcing the caring for my kids.” Here’s what that means, and how it panned out for her.

A novel intelligence has roared into the mainstream, sparking euphoric excitement as well as abject fear. Explore the landscape of possible futures in a brave new world of thinking machines, with the very leaders at the vanguard of artificial intelligence.

The Big Ideas Series is supported in part by the John Templeton Foundation.

This program can be watched here, and on our YouTube channel, starting at 4PM on Friday, November 24.

Scientists at the University of New Hampshire may have identified a pathogen that has sickened possibly thousands of dogs and killed some of them across the country.

Have you ever dreamed of traveling in a luxurious RV that looks like a five-star hotel on wheels? Well, the future of Luxury RVs by Coldstar Art is here! Futuristic Luxury RVs are taking the RV industry by storm with their amazing concepts and designs. These RVs come in vibrant colors such as orange and have an amazing interiors with beds, a kitchen, and even a living room. They are basically like an SUV but with all the amenities of a five-star hotel.

Starship Troopers.
by Robert A. Heinlein.
Read by Christopher Hurt.
Originally issued by NLS on cassette in 1982
Can we refrain from inane comments about fascism? Unless you have something constructive to say I’ll probably just delete it and block you from commenting in the future. Or I might turn off comments altogether. With that out of the way, enjoy the book.
“Thousands of years in the future, a young man joins mobile infantry and fights in an interplanetary war against insect-like aliens.“
Chapter list:
00:00:00 — (i) Book info.
00:01:03 — (01)
00:38:44 — (02)
01:17:03 — (03)
01:35:28 — (04)
01:51:35 — (05)
02:24:49 — (06)
03:03:54 — (07)
03:23:54 — (08)
03:49:49 — (09)
04:05:24 — (10)
04:36:24 — (11)
05:13:19 — (12)
06:25:44 — (13)
08:20:23 — (14)

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