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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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Musser’s original orrery was a hulking machine, standing over 2 meters tall and intended for use in museums and university classrooms. I first stumbled across Musser’s desktop orrery, called the Copernican Planetarium Model 500, during a visit to the Whipple Museum of the History of Science , at the University of Cambridge.

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Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety

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The following MLCommons AI safety working group members contributed to this article: Ahmed M. Ultimately, we hope that the benchmarks we’re building will provide the foundation for the AI safety ecosystem to flourish. Protik Mukhopadhyay, Protecto.ai Protik Mukhopadhyay, Protecto.ai Protik Mukhopadhyay, Protecto.ai

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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In 1991, when Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines, it created a haze of particles so dense that it temporarily cooled the planet by. Faye McNeill’s group at Columbia University. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as "Planet-Cooling Tests Could Start in 2022.". about 0.6 °C. candidate in V.

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