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Lithium-ion has long dominated home battery storage, but sodium-ion is starting to make its move. Sodium-ion battery startup UNIGRID has shipped the first units of its Na+Casa residential battery, with the first systems now installed in homes across Europe.

Reinforcement learning uses error information to adjust control algorithms.

That’s fine. It’s all 100% opt in. :-)

Studies of the Arm showing the Movements made by the Biceps, 1510 #leonardodavinci #davinci

I parked in front of this shop while running an errand this afternoon. I feel unworthy of extraordinary banana pudding.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Last month, my colleagues and I published an investigation into a Texas oil refinery startup, America First Refining, that had secretly gotten investment from Donald Trump Jr. We discovered a saga involving the Trump administration’s tariff policy, sanctioned Russian oil and an Indian billionaire family’s private zoo.  […]

Plus mail art, Trump take wind, and Smokey catches up with a latter day Bandit in today's Flyover news roundup.

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The real newsflash: yesterday, OpenAI broadly released the model called "Sol" — ChatGPT 5.6 — to the broader, unwitting, public and to normies like me... finally.

It had been buzzed about in certain precincts lately (the buzzers being privileged with the limited release a couple weeks ago), and of course I'd been curious about it, like most any self-aware prompter and 'cognition conjurer' {::snicker::} these days.

I asked it just now this:

Result, after a 2nd attempt {WHOA}:

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More police and firefighters use drones to catch and deter illegal fireworks.

A seaplane upside down on Lake George, two people in the water, and emergency crews racing to Blair's Bay — it's the kind of story that could have ended very differently. Continue reading…