Faults are notoriously hard to map, and many across the U.S. remain undiscovered. In the GEMS Prize, solvers are building models to find them using geophysical and elevation data, with a shot at $300K. Deadline: December 3. gems.drivendata.org #GEMSprize

The Geologic Enhanced Mapping System (GEMS) Prize Challenge

Identify hidden geologic faults to discover new geothermal resources.

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Check out this challenge to understand real tutoring transcripts!

DrivenData@drivendata.org · 4mo ago

Calling all solvers! Join the Trace the Ace challenge and help build models  that predict student learning based on tutoring session transcripts, and compete for a share of the $50k prize pool. Submissions are open now through August 27. platform.k12-ai-infrastructure.org/competitions...

A lot of “data usability” comes down to pretty unglamorous work: cleaning, standardizing, reconciling edge cases - but that’s the part that makes everything else possible. We wrote our approach here: drivendata.co/blog/last-mi...

Solving the last-mile public data problem

Using "baked" data to transform public data repositories into analysis-ready resources

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First benchmark shared on K-12 AI Infrastructure Platform! Frontier models* don't outperform classical methods on grading science short answer questions. platform.k12-ai-infrastructure.org/benchmarks/2... (zero-short, few-shot, reasoning off).

Competition - SAGE: Science Answer Grading & Evaluation

Compare models to automatically grade written responses to science questions

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Launching today: The K-12 AI Infrastructure Platform! platform.k12-ai-infrastructure.org Making AI better for students and educators. Learn more about the launch and our plans on the blog post here: drivendata.co/blog/k12-ai-...

Excited to be speaking at Good Tech Summit in DC April 7 www.goodtechtogether.org/summit We’ll share a program focused on K-12 education and talk about investing in the foundations of AI: data, models, and benchmarks. We'll explore how these shape AI development in a field. Join us!

🎉 Excited to launch this challenge! 🎉 Over a year of data collection, curation, and annotation that we undertook to produce a first-of-its-kind dataset. Help us build speech models that understand 2-5 year olds. $120k in prizes and huge impact! kidsasr.drivendata.org

Great set of events for #SeattleAIWeek this week! Definitely join some if you are in town and let me know if you want to catch up luma.com/Seattle-AI-W...

#SeattleAIWeek 2025 · Events Calendar

View and subscribe to events from #SeattleAIWeek 2025 on Luma. Showcasing the PNW as the best place to be in AI. Community-driven. Future-focused. Submit your event now using the + button.

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🚀 New release: cloudpathlib v0.23.0 🥧 Now with Python 3.14 (π) support! 📁 New copy & move methods mean you can reduce usage of shutil 🎉 Check out the full release and docs here: 👉 cloudpathlib.drivendata.org/stable/

Super interesting work on new proposed columnar data file format called F3 with embedded wasm binary to decode the data 🤯 (which obviates the need for 3rd party library support). Favorable comparisons on compression, throughput and random reads to existing formats. db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/...

Very cool to see Wikimedia embracing LLM tools and launching a hybrid similarity search API and open source embeddings for Wikipedia! Also supports Q&A style queries. www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

Interesting to see empirical research coming out for LLMs as education aids. In this study, active use of LLMs helped CS students debug compiler errors. Removing LLM access demonstrated no lasting learning benefit from having had access to it... learninganalytics.upenn.edu/ryanbaker/IC...

Are you interested in #AIforConservation #AIforBiodiversity #AIforWildlife or #AIforNature?? Are you located in the Boston Area? If so, come join us!! The AI for Conservation Slack community is doing our first local-area Boston meetup, partnering with iNaturalist and TEDx Boston!

We just shipped two major features for cloudpathlib ✨📦 ✨ ! First, http support—treat an URL like any other path (open, read_text, join). Second, compatibility with open and os Python built-ins for seamless transition of legacy code and third-party library support. cloudpathlib.drivendata.org

Great opportunity to work on AI in conservation and biodiversity with Roland Kays! In-person in NC, check it out now since it is only open for a week: www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...

Job Bulletin

State of North Carolina

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Exemplary FAQ for "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt" www.brainonllm.com/faq I'd love to see more authors who are explicit about what NOT to claim based on a study, including wording for lay audiences that is not appropriate.

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

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Thought I would spot check a application someone was posting about 100% vibecoding. Can you spot the issue? Kudos to the LLM, this is verbatim from the fastapi docs. Sometimes verbatim from the docs is not what you want for your application though....

Interesting announcement on a product from Astral! Similar model to one of the core @anacondainc.bsky.social lines of business.

Charlie Marsh@crmarsh.com · last yr.

Today, we're announcing our first hosted infrastructure product: pyx, a Python-native package registry. We think of pyx as an optimized backend for uv: it’s a package registry, but it also solves problems that go beyond the scope of a traditional "package registry".

Enthusiastic to build on this generation of earth observation foundation embeddings like DeepMind's AlphaEarth (and more)! We already see some promising crop type (cereals vs. orchards) results and are exploring other use cases in climate resilience. deepmind.google/discover/blo...

Very cool to see that marimo supports our cloudpathlib library for their file browser UI! Browse your S3, GCS, Azure buckets from your notebooks! docs.marimo.io/api/inputs/f...

File Browser - marimo

The next generation of Python notebooks

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✨ 📦 ✨ Just released new Cookiecutter Data Science version with support for pixi and poetry as environment managers! Some of our top requested features ever. Upgrade and check it out now. cookiecutter-data-science.drivendata.org

Now getting organic inbound for www.zambacloud.com, our wildlife imagery processing platform, from ChatGPT! 😲

Just in case you thought speech-to-text worked for children, the third column is what Whisper does. Somehow in the third example it accesses my inner monologue... I guess that's why we're excited about our upcoming challenge! kidsasr.drivendata.org

How are people managing code review for their AI coding agents? I do a first glance and it is obviously bad (e.g., didn't refactor repeated code), and now I've got half a dozen AI diffs for things that aren't good enough cluttering up my todo list with things to respond to....

New research based on the CANDOR corpus shows that people enjoy conversations where they alternate longer turns better than short turns or one person dominating. Cool! arxiv.org/html/2506.20...

Time is On My Side: Dynamics of Talk-Time Sharing in Video-chat Conversations

An intrinsic aspect of every conversation is the way talk-time is shared between multiple speakers. Conversations can be balanced, with each speaker claiming a similar amount of talk-time, or…

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The best shortcut to how many experienced software engineers feel about AI is listening to the Primeagen's takes. Balanced perspectives on what's actually new, determinism, security, system complexity, what's promising, and what's not www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDWa...

"Damn ChatGPT" your new summer jam about using ChatGPT as a therapist open.spotify.com/track/4umq06... (edited)

Maldito ChatGPT

Camilo · Maldito ChatGPT · Song · 2025

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Great article on the challenges of only surfacing the right info to LLMs and editing down what is not needed. If you've used a coding copilot or agent, you've seen this first hand many times. Output iterations are often polluted with code that came before. www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/22/h...

How Long Contexts Fail

Taking care of your context is the key to building successful agents. Just because there’s a 1 million token context window doesn’t mean you should fill it.

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BioCLIP2 looks like a stellar improvement! I'm excited to think about integrating into Zamba to for open-ended classification tasks run at scale on camera trap imagery. Definitely the potential to dramatically improve CT image utility. imageomics.github.io/bioclip-2/

"Munchable" is GenZ cringe. www.propublica.org/article/insi...

Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health

Experts who reviewed the code for ProPublica found numerous and troubling flaws in the system, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to…

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