mattsparkes

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Flood of AI 'garbage' is pushing open-source developers to the limit(newscientist.com)
4 points by mattsparkes 3mo ago|2 comments
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by mattsparkes 3mo ago
AI models are making it easier and easier to generate code to build new features, fix bugs or create entire new projects at the click of a button. But that code is often difficult to integrate into existing projects, confusing or simply gar
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The man with the most dangerous job on Earth(newscientist.com)
3 points by mattsparkes 5mo ago|1 comments
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by mattsparkes 5mo ago
The shattered remains of Chernobyl’s reactor 4 are one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Not only are the ruins physically dangerous, but they are highly irradiated, pitch black and shrouded by a crumbling, concrete sarcophagus, whi
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by mattsparkes 7mo ago
Ukraine has responded to a war it didn’t start by creating an industry it doesn’t want, but could the nation's drone expertise help it rebuild? To learn more, New Scientist gained exclusive access to the research labs, factories and mi
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Ukraine Became a Drone Factory(newscientist.com)
4 points by mattsparkes 7mo ago|1 comments
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by mattsparkes 11mo ago
Very curious to hear more about this. How is it done, and what's the legal status of doing it?
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by mattsparkes 2y ago
All four of Ukraine’s operational nuclear power plants have suffered occupation or attack by Russian forces since the start of the invasion in 2022. Now, as Ukrainian troops on the counteroffensive push deeper into Russian territory, roles
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by mattsparkes 2y ago
A self-replicating form of artificial life has arisen from a digital “primordial soup” of random data, despite a lack of explicit rules or goals to encourage such behaviour. Researchers believe it is possible that more sophisticated version
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Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers(newscientist.com)
16 points by mattsparkes 2y ago|6 comments
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Is the biggest fusion experiment dead after new delay to 2035?(newscientist.com)
4 points by mattsparkes 2y ago|1 comments
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Ukraine AI to manage 700 years of removal of Russian landmines(newscientist.com)
9 points by mattsparkes 2y ago|1 comments
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UK imposes mysterious ban on quantum computer exports (newscientist.com)(newscientist.com)
2 points by mattsparkes 2y ago|1 comments
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by mattsparkes 2y ago
The UK government has set limits on the capabilities of quantum computers that can be exported — starting with those above 34 qubits, and rising as long as error rates are also higher — and has declined to explain these limits on the ground