Black-box optimization weather intervention method supports future disaster mitigation

In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in ...

Google Maps actually defaults to the slowest route now — here's how to fix it

Google Maps now defaults to fuel-efficient routes that can be slower. Disable this setting to get fastest navigation.
CNBC

Homeowners insurance premiums have soared in recent years. How to reduce your costs

Homeowners insurance premiums have spiked for many people in recent years, due to factors like inflation and climate change. There are steps that policyholders can take to try to reduce their ...
Wall Street Journal

A Famous Math Problem Stumped Humans for 80 Years. AI Just Cracked It.

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...
The Washington Post

3 simple ways to reduce your body’s exposure to plastic chemicals

When it comes to plastic-related particles and chemicals, people often feel helpless and overwhelmed. Plastic contamination feels so pervasive, inevitable and frustrating, especially since the ...
Time

8 Signs You’re the Problem in Your Arguments

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Scientific American

An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem—by asking AI

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...
Ars Technica

Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...
The New York Times

How to Reduce Your Exposure to Pesticides

Scientists still don’t fully understand the health risks of the chemicals. Here’s how they recommend protecting yourself. By Allyson Chiu When Melissa Furlong, an environmental health researcher at ...
IEEE

Spectral Clustering for Community Detection of Multi-Layer Networks

Abstract: Community extraction for multi-layer networks is a fundamental problem. Community extraction methods for multi-layer networks typically rely on a single-layer network, weights for each layer ...
Harvard Business Review

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and ...
Time

7 Ways to Reduce Fatigue Naturally

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