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New stamp honors Yellowstone's iconic bison

Popular Science

Photographer Tom Murphy has documented the park's wildlife for decades. Now, one of his photos will be on a Forever Stamp. The new stamp features one of Yellowstone's signature bison and will be out later in 2026. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It's a warm July day in Yellowstone National Park's grassy Hayden Valley and wildlife photographer Tom Murphy is tracking herds of chocolate-colored bison gathered for the annual breeding season.


Machine learning framework to predict global imperilment status of freshwater fish

AIHub

Researchers spent five years developing an AI-based model to protect freshwater fish worldwide from extinction, with a particular focus on identifying threats to fish before they become endangered. "People sometimes go in to protect species when it's already too late," said Ivan Arismendi, an associate professor in Oregon State University's Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences. "With our model, decision makers can deploy resources in advance before a species becomes imperiled." The findings were recently published in the journal Nature Communications. Nearly one-third of freshwater fish species face possible extinction, threatening food supplies, ecosystems and outdoor recreation.


How Nick Land Became Silicon Valley's Favorite Doomsayer

The New Yorker

Nick Land believes that digital superintelligence is going to kill us all. In San Francisco, his followers ask: What if, instead of trying to stop an A.I. takeover, you work to bring it on as fast as possible? In the spring of 1994, at a philosophy conference on a run-down modernist campus in the English Midlands, a group of academics, media theorists, artists, hackers, and d.j.s gathered to hear a young professor give a talk at a conference called "Virtual Futures." It was ten o'clock in the morning, and most of the attendees were wiped out from a rave that had taken place in the student union the night before. But the talk--titled "Meltdown"--was highly anticipated. The professor, Nick Land, was tenured in the philosophy department at the University of Warwick, at the time one of the top philosophy programs in the U.K. Land had gained a cult following for his radical anti-humanism, his wild predictions about the future of technology, and his erratic teaching style. Soon, his academic presentations would become increasingly "experimental"; at a conference in 1996, he lay on the floor, reciting cut-up poetry in what an attendee described as a "demon voice" while jungle music played in the background.




Kim Kardashian misses the mark on the California bar exam, vows to keep trying

Los Angeles Times

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. After deciding in 2018 that she wanted to study law, Kim Kardashian has failed the California bar exam on her first attempt. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Shapewear mogul Kim Kardashian announced Saturday that she has failed the California bar exam, seven years after embarking on her law studies.


evaluations overly harsh and would ask reviewers to reconsider our paper in the light of clarifications provided below. 2

Neural Information Processing Systems

We thank the reviewers for their thoughtful feedback. The applications of online RL in health care are motivated by the increasing "use For experimental studies (e.g., RCTs) in DTRs, issues of sample Our analysis reveals that this is not the case. We really appreciate the reviewers for the helpful suggestions and references.


Fundamental Principles of Linguistic Structure are Not Represented by o3

Murphy, Elliot, Leivada, Evelina, Dentella, Vittoria, Gunther, Fritz, Marcus, Gary

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Instead of scaling to unprecendented levels of compute via architectures that are fundamentally grounded in token prediction, a return to more traditional design features of the human mind (predicate-argument structure, variable binding, constituent structure, minimal compositional binding; Donatelli & Koller 2023) may be needed to orchestrate a more reliable expertise in human language (Ramchand 2024). This could be implemented by forms of neuro-symbolic approaches. Still, it is also certainly true that mainstream theoretical linguistics (e.g., the minimalist enterprise) was in some ways ill-equipped to successfully predict which patterns of linguistic activity might be (un)approachable by LLMs. To illustrate, a potential weakness in this direction with respect to recent generative grammar theorizing has been the underestimation of the extent to which lexical information drives composition. This type of information may permit LLMs to abductively infer certain elements of grammatical rules, in whatever format this ultimately takes (Ramchand 2024). Future research should more carefully apply the tools of linguistics to isolate specific sub-components of syntax that might be in principle achievable by language models, given specific design features. For instance, with LLMs "complete recovery of syntax might be very di`icult computationally" (Marcolli et al. 2025: 13), even if we assume that attention modules can in principle "satisfy the same algebraic structure" as what Marcolli et al. postulate as being necessary for syntaxsemantics interface mappings.


Murphy into Masters semis despite maximum miss

BBC News

Shaun Murphy misses out on a maximum 147 break as he secures a place in the semi-finals of the Masters with a superb 6-2 victory over Neil Robertson at Alexandra Palace.

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Former governor spots mystery drones in Maryland, blasts feds for lack of transparency

FOX News

Former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland said Friday that he personally witnessed "dozens of large drones" flying above his home on Thursday evening. Former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland has said that he personally witnessed "dozens of large drones" flying above his home in Davidsonville, Maryland, on Thursday evening as the mystery surrounding the various unexplained sightings continues. "Last night, beginning at around 9:45 pm, I personally witnessed (and videoed) what appeared to be dozens of large drones in the sky above my residence in Davidsonville, Maryland (25 miles from our nation's capital)," Hogan wrote on X Friday. "I observed the activity for approximately 45 minutes." The former governor said he does not know if these drone sightings are evidence of a threat to public safety or national security, but he called out the federal government for a "complete lack of transparency" in the face of Americans' concerns.