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The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a seminal event for artificial intelligence as a field. https://home.dartmouth.edu/about/artificial-intelligence-ai-coined-dartmouth Note: "simulate it", it being learning, but apparently not 'original thinking'. I was...

A partial answer to the OP question - apparently, Yes! Employers who laid off workers citing AI are already starting to regret it * Automaker Ford is reportedly rehiring hundreds of experienced human engineers to work on quality issues that automated systems couldn’t address. I heard this from...

https://www.wisbusiness.com/2026/realta-fusion-touting-first-of-a-kind-demonstration-for-fusion-energy-field/ Direct conversion involves separating the electrons from the positively charged nuclei. The electrons are collected as passed through a conductor (and load) and are then recombined...

On Sunday, the death toll was over 1400. Yesterday evening, it was about 1719. https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/world/live-news/venezuela-earthquake-hnk https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-earthquakes-survivors-rescue-rodriguez-c1e96329a6194b56f19c75c168b9595d 2026 Venezuela Sequence...

I believe that is Big Rock Point. It was a small core BWR of 84 fuel assemblies; originally 9x9 with stainless steel cladding, eventually 11x11 arrays with Zircaloy cladding. Somewhere, I have more details.

The CRDM housing extends below the reactor vessel with various attachments for the hydraulic systems. I was wondering if the CRDM housings were mechanically sheared/torn during the earthquake, thermally compromised, or failed due to stress-corrosion cracking during immersion in sea water. Ref...

This morning, I heard that at least 920 people had been killed. Authorities expect many more as they search collapsed buildings. I head that a third search and rescue group from the US is preparing to depart for Venezuela...

Small aircraft crashes into Beijing's tallest building, eyewitnesses say https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/small-aircraft-crashes-into-beijings-tallest-building-eyewitnesses-say-155822034.html People who recorded the plane crash and aftermath were ordered to delete video. What has been...

It's somewhat hard to tell the exact orientation of the CRD tubes, but there should be an array of vertical tubes. However, it looks like some are laying horizontal or near horizontal, which would mean they broke away from the bottom of the RPV, whether by mechanical forces and/or corrosion...

M 7.5 - 28 km SE of Yumare, Venezuela https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t7zp/executive 2026-06-24 22:05:11 (UTC) 10.435°N 68.472°W 10.0 km depth Shallow earthquake! Also, an interesting note: "This earthquake was the second event in a doublet. This magnitude 7.5...

David Clayton Thomas (13 September 1941 – 24 June 2026) was a British-Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears. He died at age 84. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Clayton-Thomas...

Yes, the code is 'Export Controlled'; it is restricted outside the US. Generally the source code is not provided. i should have been more clear. I was not refering to the user compiling the source, but rather someone at RSICC or LANL would have to compile the source code on a compatible (or...

Eric Johnson is a name to remember. He recorded Cliffs Of Dover - Live

The Mag 7.8 earthquake was the strongest so far this year. I heard some discussion of the geological consequences yesterday on a BBC broadcast. https://www.the-independent.com/news/science/philippines-earthquake-seabed-raise-shoreline-extension-b2995719.html The Independent reports that 61...

One has to look at the operating system (OS) for a given computer. MCNP should run on any ARM-based laptop, whether an Apple system using (Apple's OS or MacOS) or on any Windows based system as long as MCNP is compiled on a system using the same or equivalent OS. Normally, one obtains an MCNP...