If you're under 30, then the Alchemist has been making heady deep-concentration rap beats for longer than you've been alive. He's a one-man institution, and he continues to do incredible work in his own personal lane. Last year, he teamed up with Armand Hammer on Spiral Staircases EP earlier this year. Maybe we'll get to hear that one day, too. Today, Uncle Al releases a new EP that includes four songs with four different rappers. The post appeared first on <a href=" Read more ›
My Current Definitions of AGI vs. ASI/images/agi-vs-asi-definitions.webp/images/agi-vs-asi-definitions.webp I've been working on a better way to think and talk about AGI and ASI. I've thought a lot about these terms in the past, but they're mushy in my mind now in 2026. I'm looking for simplicity... Read more ›
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Whole-brain 4D fMRI generation is valuable for modeling functional brain dynamics, yet existing fMRI foundation models mainly target representation learning and downstream prediction rather than conditional predictive generation. We introduce BrainWorld, a structural-prior-conditioned generative model for whole-brain 4D fMRI dynamics. BrainWorld uses sMRI as subject-level anatomical context to guide future fMRI generation, integrating structural... Read more ›
“It’s designed to be simple in a way, even though it’s an incredibly complex device”, Distalmotion CEO Greg Roche explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. In this Vanguards of Health Care podcast episode, Roche sits down with BI analyst Matt Henriksson for an in-depth interview on the company, how its Dexter Robotic Surgery System and single-use instrument platform differentiates itself from others in the robotic market and how it can shorten the learning curve that can increase adoption of robots in Read more ›
Policymakers can unlock clean, efficient heating and cooling for one in four Cascadians. The post appeared first on . Read more ›
Subtitle: A simple mental model for Retrieval-Augmented Generation without the jargon fog Read more ›
Franciscan launches national search for scholar at the intersection of artificial intelligence, ethics, and the Catholic intellectual tradition. Read more ›
What do LLMs make of leading arguments in the Philosophy of Mind? Read more ›
State Senator Rebecca Saldaña and Seattle Port Commission President Toshiko Hasegawa are both running for King County Council in D2. Both progressives, they shared similar positions at a recent forum, but differed over a county social housing levy and whose experience was the right fit for the job. Read more ›
Science turned a serendipitous finding about lizard venom into one of the most important drugs of the century, but that type of research is getting harder to do. Read more ›
_Economy · 2026-06-19 13:18_ **BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 19.** Uzbekistan’s Parliamentary Commission overseeing the implementation of the country’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reviewed progress in sustainable urbanization and identified key priorities for future development. This was reflected in the statement by the Senate of Oliy Majlis, following the meeting held on June 18. The session was chaired by Tanzila Narbaeva, Chairperson of the Senate and Co-Chair of the Parliamentar... Read more ›
Fifteen-year-old Leah Presson was hospitalised with "zero brain activity" following an attempt at this viral trend. Read more ›
There’s a weird liminal space in James Bond pastiches between “full on Cold War paranoia” and “guy who lives in a volcano building planet-busting superweapons for the pure love of the game” where the superweapon guy is working for a nefarious foreign power, but, like, apparently they didn’t know about the superweapon? I want to see what that guy’s funding application looked like. Just once. What did they think he was building? Read more ›
Carlo Ginzburg, a renowned Italian historian, has died at 87 Read more ›
By popular demand, another passage from Richard Tarrant’s Texts, Editors, and Readers. From ch. 3 “Establishing the text 1: recension”: Although the ideal of the recoverable original is impossible to achieve, the concept still has a useful part to play. One of its benefits is psychological: it seems unlikely that scholars would be willing to […] Read more ›