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Evaluating AI Agents in Practice: Benchmarks, Frameworks, and Lessons Learned

This article introduces practical methods for evaluating AI agents operating in real-world environments. It explains how to ...
How-To Geek on MSN

How to use the LAMBDA helper functions in Microsoft Excel

Replace legacy formulas with MAP, BYROW, BYCOL, SCAN, and REDUCE to build secure, scalable, and automated spreadsheets.
CNN

Symbols found carved into 40,000-year-old artifacts may be precursor to writing

Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an ancient precursor to writing, according to a new analysis. The marks, found on 260 artifacts ...
C&EN

Glass data storage solution could last millennia

A rectangular piece of translucent blue glass has several vertical sections of varying blue shades. This piece of glass has a copy of Microsoft flight simulator map data written into it using ...
InAVate

Microsoft finds method to store data within glass for 10,000 years

Microsoft Research has announced Project Silica, a method to read/write data into small slabs of glass. The glass offers extreme stability, with experiments suggesting the data would be stable for ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft’s new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...