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Self-driving cars: Near-miss driving data can expedite AV algorithm training

The safety performance of autonomous vehicle (AV) algorithms is boosted by 90% using simulation data that better incorporates ...
Scientific American

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...

ACRouter picks the smartest AI model per task, beating Opus-only setups by 2.6x on cost

ACRouter, a new open-source AI router, learns from execution feedback to pick the best coding model per task, cutting costs 2 ...

How an army of digital sleuths are using AI to fix America’s crumbling sidewalks

I’m labeling and rating sidewalks from the comfort of my own couch in Los Angeles using Project Sidewalk, an online ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Codes, Saved 8,000 Lives, and Pioneered Modern Codebreaking.

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to ...