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- 1New report on Santa Cruz River cleanup and wildlife efforts▼New Santa Cruz River report highlights wildlife ramp, trash cleanup efforts
A new report on the Santa Cruz River highlights progress on a wildlife ramp and ongoing trash cleanup efforts along the waterway. The findings point to continued work to restore habitat and reduce pollution in the river, drawing local attention to conservation and community cleanup projects in the region.
- 2UC Santa Cruz's Adam Smith on local small language models●Adam Smith from UC Santa Cruz joins us to discuss local Small Language Models (SLMs) and building open, autonomous tools
Adam Smith of UC Santa Cruz is discussing the case for running small language models locally rather than relying on large cloud providers. He presents BayLeaf AI, described as a counterplatform, along with the concept of "transagency" — a human-agent collaboration model he likens to the relationship between a driver and a car. The conversation also covers context distillation and practical approaches to building open, autonomous AI tools that users control themselves.