A team at IBM Research has assembled a strange new ring-shaped molecule that bends around like a more complicated Möbius strip
Rather than trying to beat the top tech firms, IBM is taking a different route in the AI race
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My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...
Why IBM's CEO Thinks His Company Can Crack Quantum Computing www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SY4...
Surya, an AI model developed by NASA and IBM, tries to find hidden patterns in solar data to detect solar flares and winds.
IBM has published a blueprint for a full-scale quantum computer that could be built by decade’s end. www.ft.com/content/2fe4...
I love summer, but I also love this anti-summer reading list: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/b...
It’s official: fireflies have appeared in the Hudson Valley. 🔥 🪰
Blaming everything I do—or do not do—today on it being Friday the 13th.
Coming to Poughkeepsie:
“In the age of social media, people are craving genuine connection and community...And books often provide a catalyst to that feeling of community.” apnews.com/article/inde...
Hermann Hesse on breaking the trance of busyness, how the "little joys" magnify life, and the most important habit for living with presence www.themarginalian.org/2017/03/06/h...
Love this: "If you’re not sure what you can do right now to make a difference in the trajectory of our country, this is an easy win. Go out on Independent Bookstore Day and look around, support a local business and maybe even read a book or two." @maris.bsky.social lithub.com/something-go...
As a lapsed Catholic, for me, Pope Francis introduced layers to a religion I'd grown up in, was unsure of, and became even more critical of in adulthood. He opened up different conversations on faith and care than I was used to hearing in church growing up. I'll be thinking about that a lot.
Our voices are stronger when we howl together 🐺🐺
I love this and would add: You can be ANYTHING and not be disrespectful to the choices others have made.
The number of districts that trained teachers on generative artificial intelligence more than doubled from 2023 to 2024... but not evenly distributed: teachers and students in high-poverty districts won’t have the same opportunity to learn from AI tools
www.edweek.org/technology/m...
Happy April Fools from a silly 6-year old.
When the local elementary school performs Newsies, the small business ads in the playbill are adorable.
Excited to read this! Congratulations @itsafronomics.bsky.social
“IBM, of course, is IBM. It led the AI pack for years with its Watson offerings. Its generative AI solution is called Watsonx. It focuses on enabling businesses to deploy and manage both traditional machine learning & generative AI” @davidgewirtz.com on IBM SkillsBuild
www.zdnet.com/article/the-...
Women unlikely to reach parity with men for 134 years: JPMorgan
In C-suites worldwide, women are far from attaining equal status, holding only about 10% of the most powerful roles such as CEO and CFO.
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#Equality #Inclusion #Diversity #FinTech #FinServ #Banking
2025 survival tip #17: diversify your comfort foods. Pizza one day, ramen the next. Tacos, pasta, grilled cheese. I’m just saying, if we let potatoes get burnt out on us we’ll never survive this.
One of my favorites. So happy to see folks celebrating @ologies.bsky.social
In a @forbes.com piece from this weekend, Scott White includes public-private partnerships like IBM’s SkillsBuild as one successful approach in a challenging moment www.forbes.com/sites/scottw...
Scary findings on the cost of childcare across the U.S. www.epi.org/child-care-c... "child care is unaffordable for working families across the country, but especially for low-wage workers, including those who provide child care."
Interesting piece from Ana Altcheck @businessinsider.com about how humanities degrees and tech skills can be combined in this AI era www.businessinsider.com/notebooklm-e...
This is something we're working on through IBM SkillsBuild www.ibm.com/think/insigh...
