Experiment

David Lapola is testing a big climate-science unknown: how will the forest cope as atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to rise?

When Ralph was published last year, I sat on it. People who have been reading this blog for a while know this. I first came across the idea of loop engineering in early January last year, sat on it for four months, and then started writing a lot, begging

How Cockroach Labs built MOLT Sinai, an AI coding

A stock market game gives every player $100,000 of play money. In a sample of 800,000 trades, most players made money and fewer than one in five beat an index fund. What they bought, how long they held, and how the winners won.

SHERIDAN, WY, Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A digital tree and public record will document agent activity alongside self-reported permission statements. The November 15 experiment introduces a format for following those declarations over time, against

The Education Ministry plans to introduce Project 720 in every school within three years. A preliminary evaluation found gains among struggling students, though its impact on academic achievement has yet to be tested.

Generative AI has been promoted as the technology that could transform education by providing every student a personal tutor. We provide some of the first large-scale experimental evidence, from a two-year cluster randomized trial in 18 Tennessee middle s

Living in San Francisco means being a guinea pig for the tech industry - but I draw the line at my second-grader.

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Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.