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Subtitle: "In tariff case and others, courts are finding the president’s expansive view of executive authority clashes with decisions that limit its reach"
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Subtitle: "In tariff case and others, courts are finding the president’s expansive view of executive authority clashes with decisions that limit its reach"
Once the students graduate, they will likely use AI at work. Does restricting use of AI in college make them more or less productive later? One could argue that college is about intellectual exploration, not just job training, but I think more students are there for the latter. When it comes to writing papers, the ideal could be for a student to write the initial draft on her own but then iterate with a LLM to improve grammar and logic, keeping a log of each version of the paper. I doubt that professors want to go through such logs.
`Here’s my extremely non-clever idea: Let’s just admit that loops were better. In high dimensions, no one has yet come up with a notation that beats loops and indices. So, let’s do this:
Bring back the syntax of loops and indices. But don’t actually execute the loops. Just take the syntax and secretly compile it into vectorized operations. Also, let’s get rid of all the insanity that’s been added to NumPy because loops were slow.`
`The GOP-led Senate voted Thursday to take away California’s ability to set its own tailpipe emissions standards, effectively killing the country’s biggest driver of EV investment.
The vote was 51-44. The move nullifies a measure, enacted by the state in 2022 and later adopted by 11 other states, banning the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035. The House already passed the same resolution. Now it heads to President Trump for his signature.
U.S. carmakers and auto dealers argued that keeping in place the waiver—which permits California to set stricter emissions rules than the federal government—could cripple the industry by forcing sales of cars the public doesn’t want in mass numbers.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R., S.D.) called the waiver “an attempt by the Biden administration to impose an electric-vehicle mandate across this country.” Thune said it would have a devastating impact on the U.S. economy if not overturned.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and other supporters argue that California, which has long struggled with some of the nation’s highest rates of air pollution, has a right to impose regulations that help improve air quality. The California Air Resources Board, or CARB, a state regulator that sets the auto mandates, said the rules provide ample flexibility to enable car companies to meet them. The rules were set to be implemented in phases starting in 2026.
“This is a huge setback, and not just for California, but for all the states that have adopted California clean-air standards,” said Sen. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.). “It means we’ll fall further behind other countries in the adoption of new EV technologies.”
EV demand isn’t close to what it was even a few years ago. Discounts are sparser, charging stations can be hard to find and Congress hopes to do away with incentives that have long juiced demand. EV sales, which make up about 7% of the U.S. car market, fell 5% in April, while the broader market grew by 10%, according to estimates from research firm Motor Intelligence.`
About the authors: "Mr. Alhassani is Palantir’s head of government affairs and public policy. He served as a special assistant at the National Security Council, 2009-12. Mr. Bak is Palantir’s head of AI implementation. He serves on the National AI Advisory Committee’s Subcommittee on Law Enforcement."
The new book of Mark Lynas, with Ted Nordhaus the co-author of this piece, is "Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It" https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/six-minutes-to-winter-97813994...
This is true of modern Fortran also.
'NOAA has quietly reported that they will soon decommission 14 datasets, products, and catalogs related to earthquakes and marine, coastal, and estuary science. According to the list, these data sources will be “decommissioned and will no longer be available” by early- to mid-May.'
but if you click on the first link she provides, you see that duplicative access points are being removed and that the data will still be available.
'Type of change: The duplicative access point will be decommissioned for nClimGrid-Daily. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) will be terminated.
Description: The NCEI Data Access Branch will be decommissioning a duplicative access point for nClimGrid-Daily'