How a doomed bridge became the Pacific Northwest’s most unlikely reef

After Galloping Gertie collapsed in 1940, its twisted steel created a thriving underwater world. Now it’s at risk.

Can bigger-is-better ‘scaling laws’ keep AI improving forever? History says we can’t be too sure

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman – perhaps the most prominent face of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom that accelerated with the launch of ChatGPT in 2022 – loves scaling laws. These widely ...
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The Fall of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

On Nov. 7, 1940 — 85 years ago Friday — the Tacoma Narrows Bridge twisted and danced in a 40 mph windstorm and then collapsed. The failure of a bridge only four months old was a spectacular lesson for ...