There is nothing more exciting than getting hold of a bunch of documents with “CONFIDENTIAL” stamped across them. It turns out that back in 2016, the British government attempted to reconstruct the Ship of Theseus. Or if you prefer, it … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the name of consumer protection, a slew of U.S. federal agencies are working to make it easier for Americans to click the unsubscribe button for unwanted memberships and recurring payment services. A broad new government initiative, … Read more
Asterisk: Civic technology is pretty buzzy right now. Or rather the intertwined problems of bad government, technology, and kludgy public-facing bureaucracy are buzzy. Now, it’s not totally a new topic. There’s the great Annie Lowrey time tax piece from 2021. … Read more
Welcome Welcome to Inspect, a framework for large language model evaluations created by the UK AI Safety Institute. Inspect provides many built-in components, including facilities for prompt engineering, tool usage, multi-turn dialog, and model graded evaluations. Extensions to Inspect (e.g. to … Read more
The US Department of Energy is funding a pilot project to demonstrate the commercial viability of storing energy in heated sand, which is capable of producing 135 MW of power for five days. April 4, 2024 William Driscoll From pv … Read more
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Photo: BLM The Biden administration has updated the roadmap for solar development to 22 million acres of federal lands in the US West. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory have determined … Read more
The channeling of the Colorado River to irrigate farmlands and provide water to cities across the southeast has been a complex, contentious issue for more than a century. One chapter in that story, highlighted by historian Byron E. Pearson, was … Read more
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A B.C. government Twitter account updating residents about driving conditions reached its tweet limit on a weekend it was sharing information about wildfire evacuations. The incident, which occurred earlier this month, prompted the Ministry of Transportation’s DriveBC account to issue a warning. … Read more