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3-year project to develop and test standards for describing the performance of automotive lidar

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Although one could arguably compare lidars based solely on their manufacturers’ specifications, such comparisons are not very useful. Bos, an associate professor at Michigan Technological University (MTU), with assistance from his PhD student, Zach Jeffries. The tests during the first year were led by Dr Jeremy P. —Jeremy Bos.

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Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons

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As a comparison, a typical terrestrial forest stores about 30,000 metric tons per square kilometer, most of which is in the form of wood. The Florida Coastal Everglades LTER site is one of 26 such NSF LTER sites around the world in ecosystems from forests to tundra, coral reefs to barrier islands. —Fourqurean et al.

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Detection Stays One Step Ahead of Deepfakes—For Now

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The main problem is how to handle new technology,” Luisa Verdoliva , a computer scientist at the University of Naples Federico II , says of the novel generation methods that keep cropping up. “In Synthetic-media creation and detection is an arms race, one in which each side builds on the other. In this respect, it never ends.”

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7 Revealing Ways AIs Fail

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"It's unpredictable which problems artificial intelligence will be good at, because we don't understand intelligence itself very well," says computer scientist Dan Hendrycks at the University of California, Berkeley. The future of explainability may involve building databases of correct explanations, Nguyen says. 1) Brittleness.

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EV Chargers for All!

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Harry’s 200-unit condominium building in Minneapolis, Minn., They rejected my request to allow cyclists to hose off their bikes in the alley behind the building, which cost nothing. Nor is it surprising, as a University of California, Berkeley study found, that homeowners purchase EVs at nearly six times the rate of renters.