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This Is A Lesson I Hope To Pass Down - RyanHoliday.net This originally ran in The Free Press. Poems have always been earnest. That’s why some of them are so cringe.  Rhapsodizing about nature. Pouring out your heart to a lover. Finding deep meaning in...

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EGOI 2025: Young Female IT Talents in Bonn EGOI 2025 brought over 200 young female IT talents to Bonn for a week of algorithmic challenges, research insights, and diversity in IT.

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Lamarr Student Antonia Körner Wins Grace Hopper Award 2025 Antonia Körner wins the Grace Hopper Award and BIG Award for her zero-shot AI model for imputing missing time series data – developed with the Lamarr Institute.

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Our team NimbRo@Home participates in the #robocup2025 domestic service robot competition in Salvador, Brazil.
Despite much delayed arrival of the robots, NimbRo reached the final as runner-up.
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The poetry machine [written by claude.] Here’s the thing about ChatGPT that nobody wants to admit: It’s not intelligent. It’s something far more interesting. Back in the 1950s, a Russian linguist na…

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AI in Tax Investigation: Lamarr & Partners Develop Prototype Lamarr and partners use AI in tax investigation to help detect suspicious transactions and terrorism financing faster. Learn more about the project.

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Excellent and Interdisciplinary: Lamarr Institute Shapes Cutting-edge Research in Bonn and Dortmund » Lamarr News From sustainable agriculture to particle research and astrophysics – scientists at the Lamarr Institute are shaping the future with Artificial Intelligence at

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Lamarr-PI Prof. Johannes Albrecht Honored with Breakthrough Prize 2025 » Lamarr News We are excited to share that Prof. Johannes Albrecht, a Principal Investigator at the Lamarr Institute and a key figure in the Faculty of Physics at TU

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The Huge List of AI Tools: What's Actually Worth Using in May 2025? There are way too many AI tools out there now. Every week brings another dozen “revolutionary” AI products promising to transform how you work. It’s overwhelming trying to figure out what’s actually...

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System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 Direct link to a PDF on Anthropic's CDN because they don't appear to have a landing page anywhere for this document. Anthropic's system cards are always worth a look, and …

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User interaction design drives outcomes AI models primarily use a text or speech interface. Type what you want and it types back. Say what you want it talks back. This is fancy, a breakthrough, a little showy. And if the user brings the …

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Why You Love Conflict You'll Never Fight: Spectator's War - Stoic of the Day This topic is NOT about whether any particular war is right or wrong, justified or not.

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Michael Kamp Joins Lamarr Institute as Professor » Lamarr News The Lamarr Institute is pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Michael Kamp will be joining as its newest professor. With a strong background in Trustworthy AI

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Girls’ Day 2025 » Lamarr News On this year's Girls' Day 2025 the Lamarr Institute introduced young, interested participants to the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and

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Free Is Never Free - Stoic of the Day We human beings absolutely lose our minds when we hear the word "free."

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The use (and design) of tools It’s hard to build a house without a hammer. The hammer has been around for a long time, and thanks to its intuitive design, a user can get 70% of the benefit after less than ten minutes of i…

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AI in the Natural Sciences: Study Probes Model Reliability How trustworthy is AI in the natural sciences? New paper by Prof. Bajorath shows when predictive models support valid reasoning and follow-up studies.

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Always Be Unblocking The most impactful engineers I know do not just write code. They remove obstacles for others. Your impact is not measured by the code you write. It is measured by how much faster your entire team moves...

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The Weight of Tomorrow: How Responsibility Changes Everything - Stoic of the Day Responsibility is cumulative, and it only moves in one direction.

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World Women’s Day event addresses gender gap in Artificial Intelligence » Lamarr News To mark this year's International Women's Day, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) hosted an event on March 7, 2025 entitled “Tomorrow's

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Emotional Bankruptcy: Why Good People Burn Out First - Stoic of the Day This contradiction creates a unique form of suffering, an “emotional bankruptcy.”

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Same experience here on Android with Firefox Mobile. Content shows after clicking "not now" etc. fine in the browser.

Open R1: How to use OlympicCoder locally for coding We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Exascale-class Supercomputer Brings New AI Computing Power to Europe » Lamarr News With the JUPITER AI Factory, a central pillar of the European AI infrastructure is being created in Jülich. As the first supercomputer of the Exascale era in Europe, JUPITER will surpass the mark of...

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21 Powerful Life Lessons From My Mentor (George Raveling) - RyanHoliday.net Like most people, I am a product of my mentors. But when I talk about one of the most influential people in my life, everyone usually assumes I am referring to Robert Greene. Robert, of course, taught...

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You might not get a third chance The first impression is vitally important. It positions us, establishes the tone of our relationship and earns trust. But we’re human, and it’s unlikely that every first impression will…

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The peer review system is in a downward spiral for quite some time already, with AI "assisted" reviews without disclosure. An equilibrium between AI researcher/reviewer sounds interesting, at minimum. But I suspect the inertness of the system will take some time before a fundamental change occurs.

Setting the Stage for AI Research and Collaboration: Lamarr Lab Visits 2025 » Lamarr News The first Lamarr Lab Visits of 2025 have officially concluded, marking three incredible days filled with cutting-edge research, interdisciplinary discussions,

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The Question of the Sentience of AI: Lamarr Institute Welcomes Berkeley Professor Edward Lee for Guest Lecture » Lamarr News On February 20th, the Lamarr Institute welcomed renowned researcher Prof. Edward A. Lee in cooperation with RC Trust and TU Dortmund University as part of the

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The Fascinating Power Of Human Wormholes - RyanHoliday.net One of the most mind-blowing experiences of my life happened on a porch in East Austin. I had brought George Raveling, then 80, to visit with Richard Overton, then 111. It struck me as ​these two kind...

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