Via @mitprojectmanus on Instagram: “Some recent stellar #mitIAP welding from Metropolis Makerspace (6C-006b) and Project Manus student instructor Cat Arase's MIG Welding Lamp Class. This project introduced students to Adobe Illustrator, MIG welding, and lamp wiring.”

Kim Vermeer ’82 leads a consulting firm that helps affordable-housing developers meet their goals for sustainability and climate resilience. “We must address equity and affordability as part of an environmentally sustainable solution,” she says. “It’s not either-or.”

Large language models like GPT-3 can learn new tasks without updating their parameters — despite not being trained to perform those tasks. A new study “could explain almost all of the learning phenomena that we have seen with these large models,” says Ekin Akyürek.

Via @MITAthletics on Twitter: “Congrats to Kamsi Nwogu of @mitwbball for earning a spot on the NEWBA Weekly Awards First Team!”

PhD student Alexis Hocken is working on a sorting technology to keep small plastics from (literally) falling through the cracks in the recycling process. Touring a recycling facility, she thought: “My gosh! There’s so much improvement that can be made.”

Jonathon Grayson ’97 is CEO and cofounder of Surround Insurance, which provides novel types of coverage. “MIT taught me grit,” he says. “As a startup, we’ve had very difficult moments, but I learned you just figure it out.”