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How much should countries spend on education? (oecd.org)

15 hours ago | Capstanlqc | oecd.org | newest

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The Language Sector Slowdown: A Multifaceted Outlook (csa-research.com)

a day ago | Capstanlqc | csa-research.com | newest

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Solar and wind less than half the cost of fossil fuels as price falls continue (reneweconomy.com.au)

3 days ago | Capstanlqc | reneweconomy.com.au | frontpage

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HumanAI Redefines Translation Workflows and High Quality Tool for Experts (slator.com)

3 days ago | Capstanlqc | slator.com | newest

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A multi-billion dollar solar sheep rental industry is taking shape in Australia (reneweconomy.com.au)

4 days ago | Capstanlqc | reneweconomy.com.au | newest

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From data to action: A validation study of childhood education measurement tool (worldbank.org)

a week ago | Capstanlqc | worldbank.org | newest

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It's over for fossil fuels: IPCC chalks what's needed to avert climate disaster (theguardian.com)

a week ago | Capstanlqc | theguardian.com | newest

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Cost of taxpayer-funded grant for UK monarchy to rise by £45M (theguardian.com)

a week ago | Capstanlqc | theguardian.com | newest

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Research Attempts to Bring Literary Machine Translation Closer to Human Quality (slator.com)

a week ago | Capstanlqc | slator.com | newest

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A $90B world bank plan to electrify Africa has started (bloomberg.com)

2 weeks ago | Capstanlqc | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Why UX Designers Should Consider Users' Culture (multilingual.com)

2 weeks ago | Capstanlqc | multilingual.com | newest

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Five AI Advancements Shaping the Language Industry in 2024 (multilingual.com)

2 weeks ago | Capstanlqc | multilingual.com | newest

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Grammarly's Translation Feature (grammarly.com)

2 weeks ago | Capstanlqc | grammarly.com | newest

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LLMs and Generative AI don't deal with concepts (davidhsing.substack.com)

2 weeks ago | Capstanlqc | substack.com | newest

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Namibia, China signs pact for its biggest solar plant (bloomberg.com)

3 weeks ago | Capstanlqc | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Panasonic Ready to Start Making Next-Gen EV Cells at Japan Plant (bloomberg.com)

3 weeks ago | Capstanlqc | bloomberg.com | newest

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Grammarly Enters Translation Space with Grammarly Translate (multilingual.com)

4 weeks ago | Capstanlqc | multilingual.com | newest

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Happiness recession': UK 15-year-olds at bottom of European satisfaction league (theguardian.com)

a month ago | Capstanlqc | theguardian.com | newest

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InkubaLM-0.4B: Small language model for low-resource African Languages (huggingface.co)

a month ago | Capstanlqc | huggingface.co | newest

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50% of Freelance Linguists Have Thought About Changing Career (slator.com)

a month ago | Capstanlqc | slator.com | newest

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The Turing Test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence (science.org)

a month ago | Capstanlqc | science.org | newest

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The EU got 50% of its electricity from renewables in first half of 2024 (theprogressplaybook.com)

a month ago | Capstanlqc | theprogressplaybook.com | frontpage

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How people are using AI (technologyreview.com)

a month ago | Capstanlqc | technologyreview.com | newest

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Inter-Rater Reliability vs. Agreement (assess.com)

a month ago | Capstanlqc | assess.com | newest

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Highways could host 52.3B solar panels, say researchers (pv-magazine.com)

a month ago | Capstanlqc | pv-magazine.com | newest

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Companies Hiring Now in Localization and Translation: A Growing Demand (multilingual.com)

a month ago | Capstanlqc | multilingual.com | newest

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EVs Take 27.4% Share of the UK – Spring Arrives in Summer (cleantechnica.com)

a month ago | Capstanlqc | cleantechnica.com | frontpage

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AI Winter: Why we don't care if they "fail" and lose money (metamirror.io)

a month ago | Capstanlqc | metamirror.io | newest

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SA can capitalise on its green steel opportunity (news24.com)

a month ago | Capstanlqc | news24.com | newest

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What's wrong with JUST generating text? (johnsball.substack.com)

2 months ago | Capstanlqc | substack.com | newest

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66 words handle 50% of language? (john-at-pat.medium.com)

3 months ago | Capstanlqc | medium.com | newest

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The Path to LLM-Based Machine Translation (translated.com)

3 months ago | Capstanlqc | translated.com | newest

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Renewables will overtake coal as biggest power source next year – IEA (theprogressplaybook.com)

3 months ago | Capstanlqc | theprogressplaybook.com | newest

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Quality has been missing from the HE debate. Let's find it (thehighergood.net)

3 months ago | Capstanlqc | thehighergood.net | newest

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The Path to LLM-Based Machine Translation (translated.com)

3 months ago | Capstanlqc | translated.com | newest

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WTF Quora: how a platform eats itself (medium.com/westenberg)

3 months ago | Capstanlqc | medium.com | newest

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UK has almost 1M EV chargers, with new public one installed every 25 minutes (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | Capstanlqc | theguardian.com | best

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Education Secretary says early years is her 'number one priority' (independent.co.uk)

3 months ago | Capstanlqc | independent.co.uk | newest

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Ecuador river is granted the right to not be polluted in historic court case (euronews.com)

3 months ago | Capstanlqc | euronews.com | newest

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Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Part Two (lithub.com)

3 months ago | Capstanlqc | lithub.com | newest

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Florida: Tree cactus becomes first local species killed off by sea-level rise (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | Capstanlqc | theguardian.com | newest

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Heatwaves begin to drive tourists in Europe to cool climes (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | Capstanlqc | theguardian.com | newest

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China's Offshore Wind Power Prices to Undercut Coal This Year (bloomberg.com)

4 months ago | Capstanlqc | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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M-RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation Goes Global (coreon.com)

4 months ago | Capstanlqc | coreon.com | newest

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Worried About Sentient AI? Consider the Octopus (time.com)

4 months ago | Capstanlqc | time.com | newest

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UK universities valued more than institutions like parliament and BBC (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | Capstanlqc | theguardian.com | newest

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Why are girls better at thinking creatively than boys? (oecd.org)

4 months ago | Capstanlqc | oecd.org | newest

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Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid (fortune.com)

4 months ago | Capstanlqc | fortune.com | best

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NIO's semi-solid EV battery supplier ramps output as 621-mi range ET7 rolls out (electrek.co)

4 months ago | Capstanlqc | electrek.co | frontpage

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Effective education spending can reduce poverty and boost earnings (worldbank.org)

4 months ago | Capstanlqc | worldbank.org | newest

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AI is coming for our creative side, too (news24.com)

4 months ago | Capstanlqc | news24.com | newest

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Weather tracker: Hail hits Catalonia's vines and reaches pineapple size in Texas (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | Capstanlqc | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Web3, the Metaverse, and the Lack of Useful Innovation (americanaffairsjournal.org)

4 months ago | Capstanlqc | americanaffairsjournal.org | newest

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Why Google's AI Overviews gets things wrong (technologyreview.com)

4 months ago | Capstanlqc | technologyreview.com | newest

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Can Large Language Models Translate No-Resource Languages? (slator.com)

4 months ago | Capstanlqc | slator.com | newest

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Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of human brain (technologyreview.com)

5 months ago | Capstanlqc | technologyreview.com | newest

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Google Translate Turns 134 Languages into Math [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | Capstanlqc | youtube.com | newest

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OpenAI's former superalignment leader blasts company (venturebeat.com)

5 months ago | Capstanlqc | venturebeat.com | newest

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California's Remarkable Renewables Streak (theprogressplaybook.com)

5 months ago | Capstanlqc | theprogressplaybook.com | newest

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The AI Denial Train Should Stop (forbes.com/sites/steveandriole)

5 months ago | Capstanlqc | forbes.com | frontpage

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Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable? (theregister.com)

5 months ago | Capstanlqc | theregister.com | newest

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California's $12B Medicaid experiment stretches the definition of health (npr.org)

5 months ago | Capstanlqc | npr.org | newest

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Indian AI platform Hanooman launches in 98 global languages (thehindubusinessline.com)

5 months ago | Capstanlqc | thehindubusinessline.com | newest

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Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable? (theregister.com)

5 months ago | Capstanlqc | theregister.com | newest

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Solar to contribute over 60% of new U.S. electricity generation in 2024 (pv-magazine.com)

5 months ago | Capstanlqc | pv-magazine.com | newest

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[dupe] AI engineers report burnout and rollouts as 'rat race' to stay competitive hits (cnbc.com)

5 months ago | Capstanlqc | cnbc.com | newest

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Extreme Weather Is Driving More US Power Outages, Studies Show (bloomberg.com)

5 months ago | Capstanlqc | bloomberg.com | newest

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University of Zurich withdraws from international university ranking (swissinfo.ch)

6 months ago | Capstanlqc | swissinfo.ch | newest

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Endangered Alphabets: Another Script Author Murdered (glli-us.org)

6 months ago | Capstanlqc | glli-us.org | newest

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AI Will Be Smarter Than a Human in 2025: Why HE'S Wrong (mindmatters.ai)

6 months ago | Capstanlqc | mindmatters.ai | newest

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ISO 5060: A translation quality management game-changer (multilingual.com)

6 months ago | Capstanlqc | multilingual.com | newest

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Ban of heat protections for outdoor workers could create 'public health crisis' (wusf.org)

6 months ago | Capstanlqc | wusf.org | best

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Efforts to curb deforestation around the world are stalling, report finds (axios.com)

6 months ago | Capstanlqc | axios.com | newest

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Know When to Stop: A Study of Semantic Drift in Text Generation (medium.com/ema.ilic9)

6 months ago | Capstanlqc | medium.com | newest

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Google Translate No Longer Needs Humans to Improve Translations (slator.com)

6 months ago | Capstanlqc | slator.com | newest

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Turchin's Terrifying Predictions (donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com)

6 months ago | Capstanlqc | blogspot.com | frontpage

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CEO of Google DeepMind Says AI Industry Full of Hype and Grifters (futurism.com)

6 months ago | Capstanlqc | futurism.com | newest

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US Government funds pilot project for heated sand energy storage (pv-magazine.com)

6 months ago | Capstanlqc | pv-magazine.com | best

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Comparing MT System Performance (modernmt.com)

6 months ago | Capstanlqc | modernmt.com | newest

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Using GenAI to Improve Cybersecurity, with Privacy at the Forefront (xmcyber.com)

6 months ago | Capstanlqc | xmcyber.com | newest

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Generative AI for Translation in 2024 (inten.to)

6 months ago | Capstanlqc | inten.to | newest

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Worried About Sentient AI? Consider the Octopus (time.com)

7 months ago | Capstanlqc | time.com | newest

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Can the World Find Solutions to the Nitrogen Pollution Crisis? (yale.edu)

7 months ago | Capstanlqc | yale.edu | newest

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California extends 100 pct renewables streak to 17 out of last 18 days (reneweconomy.com.au)

7 months ago | Capstanlqc | reneweconomy.com.au | newest

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Alibaba Researchers Probe Large Language Models for E-Commerce Translation (slator.com)

7 months ago | Capstanlqc | slator.com | newest

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Flexible solar panels achieve record-breaking efficiency (independent.co.uk)

7 months ago | Capstanlqc | independent.co.uk | newest

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The Port of San Diego unveils the nation's first all-electric tug boat (sandiegouniontribune.com)

7 months ago | Capstanlqc | sandiegouniontribune.com | frontpage

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Climate Change Speeds Up as Major Indicators Blow Off the Charts, WMO Warns (bloomberg.com)

7 months ago | Capstanlqc | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Africa Internet Outage Risks Leaving Millions Offline for Weeks (bloomberg.com)

7 months ago | Capstanlqc | bloomberg.com | newest

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M-RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation Goes Global (coreon.com)

7 months ago | Capstanlqc | coreon.com | newest

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Why AI Is Outpacing Society's Ability to Adapt (jurgengravestein.substack.com)

7 months ago | Capstanlqc | substack.com | newest

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When GenAI still needs MT (inten.to)

7 months ago | Capstanlqc | inten.to | newest

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Major growth of clean energy limited the rise in global emissions in 2023 (iea.org)

7 months ago | Capstanlqc | iea.org | newest

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South African entrepreneur is slashing grocery costs and waste in the country (theprogressplaybook.com)

7 months ago | Capstanlqc | theprogressplaybook.com | newest

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Bringing Business Leaders Back to School (educationnext.org)

7 months ago | Capstanlqc | educationnext.org | newest

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The Value of Descriptive, Multi-Level Rubrics (ascd.org)

8 months ago | Capstanlqc | ascd.org | newest

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Broadcasters Could Pay USD 12M to Translate Emergency Alerts into 13 Languages (slator.com)

8 months ago | Capstanlqc | slator.com | newest

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Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study (theguardian.com)

8 months ago | Capstanlqc | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Why Chatbots (LLMs) Flunk Routine Grade 9 Math Tests (mindmatters.ai)

8 months ago | Capstanlqc | mindmatters.ai | newest

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Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys (scientificamerican.com)

8 months ago | Capstanlqc | scientificamerican.com | best