Partnered with the Center for Humanities, the Allen Centennial Gardens ran its second annual year of the Borghesi-Mellon Psychedelic Pasts, Presents, and Futures workshop’s interactive greenhouse tour ...

In 1964, an influential report identified a disquieting trend in academia. “Increasingly during the past few years,” it began, “concern has been expressed about the condition, in this country, of ...

Daniela Amodei, who cofounded Anthropic with her brother Dario, said uniquely human qualities will actually be more critical in the age of AI, not less. In an interview with ABC News that aired on ...

I n the Squid Game that is the job market for humanities Ph.D.s, any number that ends with a couple of zeros is going to turn heads. So the dollar amounts directed toward civics centers to bring more ...

NVIDIA releases detailed cuTile Python tutorial for Blackwell GPUs, demonstrating matrix multiplication achieving over 90% of cuBLAS performance with simplified code. NVIDIA has published a ...

For more than 40 years, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has presented the Bright Lights Awards to honor individuals who make contributions to the state's cultural landscape. The awards ...

Learn how to implement the Adadelta optimization algorithm from scratch in Python. This tutorial explains the math behind Adadelta, why it was introduced as an improvement over Adagrad, and guides you ...

Learn how to implement the Nadam optimizer from scratch in Python. This tutorial walks you through the math behind Nadam, explains how it builds on Adam with Nesterov momentum, and shows you how to ...

As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose ...

Evidence from psychology, biology, ecology, and other disciplines converges around the finding that humans need a close connection to the natural world in order to be psychologically healthy. This ...

Gaile Pohlhaus, associate dean of the College of Arts and Science; Timothy Melley, director of the Humanities Center; and Renée Baernstein, dean of the College of Arts and Science at Bachelor Hall as ...