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We’re in an era where US infrastructure is getting a lot of attention. We need a lot of energy infrastructure for decarbonization, and to enable the AI data center buildout. There’s lots of interest in building high-speed rail, mass transit … Read more

In May, Nature published an article detailing Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) new, AI-generated US Building Dataset. ORNL developed a convolutional neural network (CNN) that extracted vector-building footprints from Maxar’s WorldView-02, WorldView-03, QuickBird, GeoEye-1 satellite imagery as well as the … Read more

Tokyo AP  —  An unexploded American bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no injuries, Japanese … Read more

The list below groups open textbooks by course title. All the books have been judged to meet the evaluation criteria set by the AIM editorial board. Liberal Arts Math Math in SocietyDavid Lippman Mathematical DiscoveryAndrew M. Bruckner, Brian S. Thomson, … Read more

While Feinberg said anyone can have low literacy, adults who have poor reading skills tend to live in underserved communities with few resources, or what she calls a “print desert.” In these areas, she said there is little signage beyond … Read more

A cloak of silence has descended over the recent whistleblower lawsuit claiming that the American Diabetes Association, or ADA, accepted corporate money in return for recommending recipes that threatened the health of people with diabetes. Elizabeth Hanna, the ex-ADA chief … Read more

American flag sort (algorithm) Definition: An efficient, in-place variant of radix sort that distributes items into hundreds of buckets. The first step counts the number of items in each bucket, and the second step computes where each bucket will start … Read more

On a beautiful summer day a few months ago, I walked down to the part of the Connecticut River that separates Vermont from New Hampshire, and rented a kayak. I pushed myself off the dock—and the next thing I remember … Read more

The cost of many private colleges in America has reached $80,000 a year. The median household income in America in 2021 was $71,000 a year. This shows that college is unaffordable. Or does it? The consensus view is that America … Read more