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Longtime North Platte Community College mens basketball head coach Kevin OConnor will be inducted into the NJCAA Mens Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Six athletes and two legendary teams make up the athletic wing inductees for the Greater Amsterdam School District Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023.Jaime Julia, Andrew Rouse, Matt Vicinanzo, Antonio Lanzi, Kevin Billington and Bob Cantine will be honored for their athletic achievements, as will this yea

Allison WhittenThe neocortex stands out as a stunning achievement of biological evolution. All mammals have this swath of tissue covering their brain,

The neocortex is the seat of human intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells only after their evolutionary split from reptiles.

Many farms have been hit by avian flu along with a spike in feed, labor and fuel costs — all driving up the cost of eggs at the grocery store.

LESSWRONG 96 Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual. Jeff Hawkins gets full credit for getting me first interested in the idea that neuroscience might lead to artificial general intelligence—an idea which gradually turned into an all-consuming hobby, and more recently a new job. Im not alone in finding him inspiring. Andrew Ng claimed here that Hawkins helped convince him, as a young professor, that a simple scaled-up learning algorithm could re...