Season three of HBO's "The White Lotus" follows a group of wealthy vacationers in Thailand.A number of luxury hotels, including one in Phuket and one in Koh Samui, were used to bring the season to life.The production team also built some interiors at Acts Studio in the Thai capital, Bangkok.Each season of "The White Lotus" focuses on guests vacationing at a different location within the show's fictional luxury hotel brand.After welcoming audiences first to its Hawaii location in season one and then to its Italian resort in season two, the Emmy Award-winning series has turned to Thailand for its highly anticipated third season.The new batch of episodes boasts a stellar ensemble cast, including Walton Goggins, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Parker Posey, Carrie Coon, and Jason Isaacs. With the exception of Natasha Rothwell, who played a hotel worker in season one of the show, the rest of the core cast consists of actors who are new to the world of "The White Lotus."Kicking off on Sunday, February 16 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO, the new season will see the wealthy vacationers check in to The White Lotus Koh Samui, but as to be expected, not everyone will make it out alive.Here's everything you need to know about the real-life shooting locations behind the series.Various five-star hotels across Thailand have been used to bring the latest "White Lotus" hotel to life Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook, and Sam Nivola on season three of "The White Lotus." Fabio Lovino/HBO According to a press release, season three was filmed across several hotels in Thailand.The majority of scenes were filmed at the Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui, which should come as no surprise to fans of the series. The luxury hotel chain's locations in Maui and Sicily were used as filming bases for the previous two seasons.The real-life resort is located on the island of Koh Samui in Surat Thani province, which is known for its pristine beaches and waterfalls. The majority of scenes were filmed at the Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui, pictured above. Courtesy of Four Seasons Resorts Several of the hotel's villas, the breakfast and lunch restaurants, the pool, the gym, and the boxing ring, were used in filming.The Anantara Mai Khao Villas hotel in Phuket province was also used for several key locations featured this season, such as Belinda's lodgings and the wellness sanctuary.A third hotel, the Anantara Bophut Koh Samui Resort was also used for a few small scenes showing the hotel driveway and lobby. The Singing Bird Lounge at its sister hotel, the Anantara Lawana Koh Samui Resort, doubled for the "White Lotus" hotel bar. Filming also took place on the island of Phuket. Shutterstock / VODIN VASILII The Thai capital, Bangkok known for its vibrant nightlife and striking temples was also used to shoot some scenes.The production team built some interiors at Acts Studio in the city.

By Isaac Schultz Published February 15, 2025 | Comments (0) | Curiosity's view of the iridescent cloud. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS And now for something completely different: NASAs Curiosity rover captured a feather-shaped cloud glowing in the Martian sky shortly after sunset on the Red Planet. It dates back to January 2023, but NASA recently featured the image in an agency spotlight highlighting the rovers investigation of the planets skies conducted last month. In that investigation, Curiosity captured images over the course of 16 minutes on January 17, or Sol 4426 on Mars. The images show reddish-green clouds in the Martian twilight. The clouds are noctilucent (or night shining) clouds, caused by the way the Suns light scatters in the dusty Martian atmosphere. According to a NASA release, Martian clouds are made of either water ice or carbon dioxide ice. Only the latter groupwhich occur at higher altitudes and lower temperatures than water ice cloudsshine in the way shown above. Noctilucent clouds occur on Mars at altitudes between roughly 37 and 50 miles (60 and 80 kilometers) above the surface. When the clouds drift much lower (below about 31 miles, or 50 kilometers up) they evaporate due to rising temperatures in the atmosphere. Noctilucent clouds are not merely an extraterrestrial phenomenon. Rocket launches on Earth can cause the glowing clouds in Earths upper atmosphere, which are only visible shortly after sunset or before sunriseotherwise it is too bright to see them.Mars clouds come in many shapes and sizes. In 2022, ESA scientists spotted clouds not unlike those that form on Earth in the Red Planets skies. The following year, the Perseverance rover was greeted with heavy cloud covera sign of the overcast days to come on the dusty, not-too-distant world. The recently imaged iridescent clouds are not a newly discovered phenomenon but are still mesmerizing to beholdand still require plenty of scrutiny. The twilight clouds were first seen on Mars by NASAs Pathfinder mission in 1997. Curiosity didnt repeat the trick until 2017, and last months sighting is the fourth Mars year the rover has spotted the clouds.Late last year, NASA researchers published a study in theGeophysical Research Letters describing how the iridescent effect reveals how ice forms and grows in Mars atmosphere. Ill always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact, said Mark Lemmon, an atmospheric scientist at the Space Science Institute in Colorado and the studys lead author, in a NASA release. Now its become so predictable that we can plan our shots in advance; the clouds show up at exactly the same time of year. The release notes that these clouds have not been seen by rovers in other parts of Mars. It may be that the region Curiosity roveson Gale Craters Mount Sharpmay be predisposed to hosting the clouds.Daily NewsletterYou May Also Like By Passant Rabie Published February 12, 2025 By Isaac Schultz Published January 31, 2025 By Passant Rabie Published January 21, 2025 By Isaac Schultz Published January 10, 2025 By Passant Rabie Published January 7, 2025 By Isaac Schultz Published January 6, 2025

By Margherita Bassi Published February 15, 2025 | Comments (0) | AI-generated art representing a chess game requiring thousands or millions of moves to win. Sergei Gukov (This graphic includes AI-generated art) Researchers have developed an artificially intelligent system that does the exact opposite of living in the moment. But it doesnt just think a few steps aheadit thinks millions of steps ahead. A team led by mathematician Sergei Gukov from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created a new type of machine-learning algorithm designed to solve math problems that necessitate an extremely long series of steps. Like a really long series of steps; were talking a million steps or more. Specifically, the AI was able to make progress on a complex problem called the AndrewsCurtis conjecture, which has stumped mathematicians for decades. The conjecture basically asks: Can certain math puzzles always be solved using a set of allowed moves, like rearranging or undoing steps? Its like trying to find your way through a maze the size of Earth. These are very long paths that you have to test out, and theres only one path that works. To that end, the new Caltech program sought to find long sequences of steps that are rare and hard to find, Ali Shehper, first author of the study and a mathematician at Rutgers University, said in a Caltech statement. Its like trying to find your way through a maze the size of Earth. These are very long paths that you have to test out, and theres only one path that works. In a preprint study posted on arXiv last August and updated on Tuesday, Shehper and his colleagues detail how they used their newly developed AI to solve families of problems related to the AndrewsCurtis conjecture, which involves abstract algebra. To be clear, they didnt solve the conjecture itself. While that might seem anticlimactic, the researchers did disprove ongoing potential counterexamples to the conjecture. While disproving counterexamples doesnt necessarily make the original conjecture true, it does bolster it.Ruling out some of the counterexamples gives us confidence in the validity of the original conjecture and helps build our intuition about the main problem, Shehper explained. It gives us new ways to think about it. Gukov compared the math problems to the Rubiks Cube. Can you take this scrambled, complicated Rubiks Cube and get it back to its original state? You have to test out these very long sequences of moves, and you wont know if you are on the right path until the very end, he explained.So how does the AI do it? Basically, by thinking outside of the box. Following a reinforcement learning approach, the researchers trained the AI by first feeding it easy math problems followed by increasingly difficult tasks.It tries various moves and gets rewarded for solving the problems, said Shehper. We encourage the program to do more of the same while still keeping some level of curiosity. In the end, it develops new strategies that are better than what humans can do. Thats the magic of reinforcement learning. The algorithm ultimately learned to generate long sequences of unexpected moves, which the researchers termed super moves. In contrast, ChatGPTs output is much more boring. If you ask ChatGPT to write a letter, it will come up with something typical. Its unlikely to come up with anything unique and highly original. Its a good parrot, said Gukov. Our program is good at coming up with outliers.Basically, our program knows how to learn to learn. I can think of at least one outlier event that would be really convenient for an AI to predict: financial crashes. But while current machine learning programs havent achieved this level of prognostic sophistication, the researchers speculate that their methods could one day contribute to that sort of intelligent forecasting. Basically, our program knows how to learn to learn, Gukov explained. Its thinking outside the box. He added that the team had made significant improvements in an area of math that was decades old. Whats more, Gukov and his colleagues have prioritized approaches that do not need large amounts of computing power, making their work accessible to other academics with small-scale computers.Though the practical applications of this achievement might not be evident in our day-to-day lives, their work joins a host of other researchers optimizing machine-learning algorithms to solve humanitys problems (not to destroy our civilization).Daily NewsletterYou May Also Like By Lucas Ropek Published February 14, 2025 By AJ Dellinger Published February 13, 2025 By Lucas Ropek Published February 11, 2025 By AJ Dellinger Published February 11, 2025 By AJ Dellinger Published February 10, 2025 By Lucas Ropek Published February 9, 2025

Field House / Wilkinson King ArchitectsSave this picture! David GrandorgeArchitects: Wilkinson King ArchitectsAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:375 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2022 PhotographsPhotographs:David GrandorgeManufacturersBrands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers: Glazing Vision, Futura +, IQ Glass, IdealCombi, Kitchen Architecture, Polycor, Ted ToddSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. Wilkinson King Architects complete highly-efficient low carbon family home of structural stone and CLT - Wilkinson King Architects has completed Field House, a low-energy new-build family home on an agricultural site in West Sussex. Made from natural materials, stone, and timber, the two-storey property encapsulates the architect's expertise in sustainable, contemporary design that pushes the boundaries of material engineering. The clients approached Wilkinson King Architects to design a home for themselves and their two teenage children, replacing an existing, small, poorly constructed dwelling on the site, along with several unsalvageable agricultural barns and sheds. The client's brief called for a spacious four-bedroom family home with open-concept living spaces that fully capitalises on the exceptional views of West Sussex and the South Downs across both levels. Facing towards the rolling South Downs, Wilkinson King Architects have artfully designed Field House to make the most of the panoramic views. The ground floor is composed of a large family sitting room with a hidden snug and an open-plan kitchen dining living space, with ancillary spaces situated along the north side. A continuous ribbon of full-height glazing connects the living spaces, fulfilling the client's wish to be able to endlessly look out on the natural landscape. As the sun tracks around the south and west elevations of Field House, the ever-shifting moments of the day are captured by the home, coming to a close with a beautifully framed view of the sunset. The external corners of the floor-to-ceiling glazing slide away, introducing an effortless permeability between the home's interior and exterior spaces.Save this picture!Thanks to glazing stretching across the south and west elevations of the home, the low winter sun will permeate the glazing, helping to light and warm the house. The north and east elevations of the ground floor are composed of structural timber with mineral wool insulation and a solid limestone outer wall, retaining heat and enclosing the house.During the summer, the glazing is protected from solar gain by the overhanging first floor, which is supported by a series of structural limestone columns and beams. Forming a stone loggia along the recessed South and West elevations, it creates varied spatial experiences while preserving the openness of the ground floor. Each column has been crafted from a single piece of limestone sourced from Valanges, the largest being 2,600mm x 1,200mm x 400mm. The house is arranged over two floors. The glazed entrance door on the east elevation leads into a generous double-height hall in the centre of the plan with a striking quarter-turn staircase crafted in solid stone. Above, a contemporary triangular rooflight has been cut into the CLT roof, flooding the stairwell with natural light. The limestone staircase acts as the central spine, from which all the choreography of the home pivots. It contains the homes' DNA, the three essential material layers clearly on show: Douglas fir timber, solid limestone, and spruce CLT.Flawlessly engineered by Wilkinson King Architects, the floating solid stone staircase features an elegant curved bannister crafted from English Ash, a stunning piece of craftsmanship. A slender gap between the flights of steps and the adjacent walls is a masterclass in light and shadow and brings a richness and sincerity to the design. This void is only briefly eclipsed by a single piece of solid limestone, which cantilevers out from the double-height stone wall to form a load-bearing quarter landing. The stone steps act as a single beam, spanning from the ground floor onto the landing, further demonstrating the technicality of the project.Save this picture!The ground floor North and East elevations, composed of structural timber and masonry outer leaves, support deep Douglas fir joists. The joists run north to south across the plan, spanning onto a structural stone beam. Inspired by the linear rows of vines of local vineyards, these create rhythm and texture throughout the ground floor, complementing the airy interior spaces and cultivating a warm and cosy feel.Field House's upper storey and roof are constructed entirely in European spruce CLT clad in Western Red Cedar, which sits on top of the timber joists and acts as a stabiliser pushing down on the structure below. The cedar cladding has been left untreated and will continue to silver, capturing the patina of time. True to Wilkinson King Architects' meticulous attention to detail, each window fenestration was sized to the dimensions of the cedar planks, a discreet design specification but one that contributes to the home's overall sense of quiet luxury.All four dual-aspect bedrooms are located on the first floor, which is characterised by a light and comfortable material palette. The CLT structure, like the limestone and the Douglas fir on the ground floor, is left exposed for the ceiling and walls throughout the bedrooms and hallway, creating a warm and natural interior finish, whilst the acoustic quality of the timber curates an idyllic sense of calm. The floor is boarded with wide Douglas fir timber, selected by Wilkinson King Architects to bring the materiality of the large timber joists upstairs, creating a sense of cohesion throughout the interiors.A large dual-entry family bathroom tiled in white and off-white ceramic tiles is accessible via the galleried landing as well as directly from the guest bedroom. The two children's rooms feature ample storage space and adjoining three-quarter bathrooms fitted with roof lights. The expansive master bedroom, complete with a walk-in wardrobe and dual-basin ensuite bathroom, opens up onto a west-facing terrace. The family's bedrooms have south- or south-west-facing views, while the guest bedroom is aligned to the north and east elevations of the home.Save this picture!Looking towards the home, Field House effortlessly embeds itself into its rural context. The undulating roof composed of subtle pitches echoes the surrounding countryside and the preexisting barns on the Site. These pitched forms are translated in the ceiling below creating dynamic and varying interior spaces. Each of the perimeter corners is deliberately pitched low to create an inviting approach towards the home. The home's form and motifs are in playful dialogue with another house previously designed by Wilkinson King located in the field across.On the eastern boundary of the arrival courtyard, a small garage was built, in part to rehouse the three species of bat that were roosting in the roof of the preexisting dwelling. Its unique angular pitched roof, mimetic of the main house, was directly informed by the specific roosting requirements for each type of bat, accommodating a minimum width and length of 5 x 5 metres and a floor-to-ridge height of 2.5 metres, as well as space within the cladding to roost.Wilkinson King Architects has closely collaborated with Webb Yates, an award-winning structural, civil, and building services engineering design practice, to integrate environmentally conscious solutions into the project, ensuring Field House's efficiency. The house is highly insulated and oriented to mitigate overheating in summer without the need for mechanical cooling systems while making the most of the solar gain in winter.Save this picture!High levels of fabric efficiency and airtightness reduce space heating energy demand. The residual demand is fulfilled by an air source heat pump featuring a high energy efficiency of 335%, feeding underfloor heating systems throughout the home. The energy is all electric and supplied from renewable sources. Good air circulation and passive cooling are provided by mixed-mode ventilation with heat recovery. The total operational carbon emission rate of the house is 15 kg/m/year, achieving an overall 33.9% reduction against the national baseline performance.The only concrete in the project was used for the building's foundation slab, which was engineered as thin as possible. In order to avoid unnecessary use of materials, this was then polished and sealed creating a sleek and durable flooring. The use of locally sourced carbon sequestering materials such as timber and stone in the building is the equivalent of minus 85 kg/CO2/sqm in construction.Field House is a meticulously crafted sustainable redevelopment, perfectly at ease amongst West Sussex's sprawling landscape. Wilkinson King Architects have fulfilled the client's desire for a warm and joyous family home that is in constant dialogue with the landscape.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessAbout this officePublished on February 15, 2025Cite: "Field House / Wilkinson King Architects" 15 Feb 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1026608/field-house-wilkinson-king-architects&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

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