by David Brooks | Mar 4, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The 9th Solar Decathlon Design Challenge held by the Department of Energy is ongoing, with the final competition next month. Two UNH colleges are among the 37 schools with finalist teams, some from as far as Pakistan, Peru and South Korea. The goal is to “create...
by David Brooks | Mar 3, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
There are 10 different bills being considered by the Maine legislature right now about the state’s laws against large (over 3 acre) open-pit mining. The reason: There’s a whole bunch of lithium available near the New Hampshire border. One problem, as I...
by David Brooks | Feb 28, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
A housing/development site called Realtyhop.com took data from 2022 and data from the 1970 census to compare median house prices with median household income to create a “multiplier”. The higher the figure the harder it is to buy a house. The full study is...
by David Brooks | Feb 27, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The key to a chatbot’s usefulness is the data it is trained on. A professor at Dartmouth’s business school demonstrates that by creating a chatbot TA to answer student questions. First, Shumsky created a knowledge base in Cody—an AI coding assistant, or...
by David Brooks | Feb 26, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
On Monday, Feb. 26, N.H. Department of Transportation began posting state highways, limiting heavy trucks on roads to reduce breakup of pavement from frost heaves. Those nasty bumps are created when water freezes and thaws in a warm/cold cycle, the same pattern that...
by David Brooks | Feb 26, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth Health: A case of misidentification and rush to judgment on social media has led to false accusations of racism and threats of violence against an innocent New Hampshire doctor and his family. Andrew R. Spector, MD, a highly respected Dartmouth Health...
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