Image of the Day May 17, 2026
Kyushu, Japan, from orbit
NASA's MODIS image for May 17 shows Kyushu's volcanic landscape, including Sakurajima, a reminder that quiet satellite views often hide restless geology.
Credit · NASA · MODIS Rapid Response
On This Day 124 years ago
1902
The Antikythera mechanism is identified
Archaeologist Valerios Stais noticed gear teeth in a corroded lump recovered from a Roman-era shipwreck, opening the long story of the ancient analogue computer.
Paper of the Day arXiv · cs.LG
ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
Yao, Zhao, Yu, Du, Shafran, Narasimhan and Cao
A durable agent paper for a Sunday read: interleave reasoning traces with tool-using actions, then judge the system by whether it can recover when observations contradict the plan.
arXiv:2210.03629 →