The Google guide for holiday help
Learn more about using Google products like Gemini, Search, Shopping, Pixel and more over the holidays.
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Even if NEO Flops, Could Robot Housekeepers Spark a New Baby Boom?
Chelsea Follett The debut of the robot butler NEO has drawn widespread ridicule. Unable to perform many chores without a remote human operator, the machine has become a target of social media backlash. Videos circulating online show the robot struggling with basic tasks, such as closing a dishwasher. , But don’t underestimate the potential of robotic housekeepers just yet. The technology is dawning at an opportune time. Consider the growing concerns about plummeting birth rates. Last year saw […]
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Giving Real Meaning to Veterans Day
Any element of self-sacrifice in war is a betrayal of our soldiers and the American freedom they fight for.
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Scientists apply optical pooled CRISPR screening to identify potential new Ebola drug targets
The following press release was issued today by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Although outbreaks of Ebola virus are rare, the disease is severe and often fatal, with few treatment options. Rather than targeting the virus itself, one promising therapeutic approach would be to interrupt proteins in the human host cell that the virus relies upon. However, finding those regulators of viral infection using existing methods has been difficult and is especially challenging for the most […]
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Google launched its deepest AI research agent yet — on the same day OpenAI dropped GPT-5.2
For the first time, developers can embed Google’s Deep Research tool, based on Gemini 3 Pro, into their own apps.
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Was the Big Unread Bill a poison pill?
Will it destroy federal legitimacy The post Was the Big Unread Bill a poison pill? appeared first on Downsize DC.
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Does the Fourth Amendment require a garage? The Moses Case
How an “automobile” can become a talisman before which the Fourth Amendment fades. The post Does the Fourth Amendment require a garage? The Moses Case appeared first on Downsize DC.
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The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 12: Logistic Regression in Excel
In this article, we rebuild Logistic Regression step by step directly in Excel. Starting from a binary dataset, we explore why linear regression struggles as a classifier, how the logistic function fixes these issues, and how log-loss naturally appears from the likelihood. With a transparent gradient-descent table, you can watch the model learn at each iteration—making the whole process intuitive, visual, and surprisingly satisfying. The post The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 12: Logistic Regression in Excel appeared […]
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COVID and the Craving for Certainty
In March of 2020, I published an essay warning both the public and our policymakers against overreacting to the COVID threat. We overreact, I argued, in times of “epistemic uncertainty,” when we do not know enough about a threat we face and are unclear about our best response. Continue Reading…
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