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World Models, Free Energy, and a Plastic Dinosaur

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In 2020, I wrote about a meter-high robotic, smart fabric wrapped Plastic Dinosaur that gained consciousness to explore machine learning. A series of articles on the core concepts of machine learning and neural nets, as they existed then, each started with a brief story about Plastic Dinosaur as it learned … [continued]

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Sierra Club Releases First Trove of Emails, Texts, and Calendars from Trump’s Department of the Interior

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WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Sierra Club released the first batch of communications and calendars received from the Department of the Interior in the wake of the organization’s lawsuit following the agency’s failure to respond to public records requests for the documents. The Sierra Club sought calendar items and text and email records between … [continued]

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How Sustainable Were The 2026 Olympics, Really?

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is proud of the sustainability actions it required the host country, Italy, to implement for the 2026 Milano Cortina Games. Measures included minimizing negative impacts on the environment and using the Games’ visibility to showcase sustainable solutions. Protecting biodiversity and managing resources sustainably, the Committee … [continued]

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