Amazon researchers paired text with images as input to drive LLM ability ever higher. And they did it with a model that’s only 770 million params (vs the 175 Billion in GPT-3.5). “Our method achieves new state-of-the-art performance on the […]
An emergent behavior of large language models: they are better able to respond to “chain of thought” prompts to reason step by step and derive more accurate answers. Google researchers: “We will show that sufficiently large language models can generate […]
I’ve been saying for years that one day millions of consumers will wake up with easy access to glucose data, and it’ll be a remarkable opportunity for nutrition awareness. “The goal of this secret endeavor — dubbed E5 — is […]
Watch this video. He takes an iPhone scan of sports commentator and retired NFL player Ahmad Rashad, then promptly drops him into some NBA game footage where he proceeds to dunk on the Lakers. ~ learn more
“Momo, a 12-year-old white-handed gibbon, shocked her keepers at the Kujukushima Zoo and Botanical Garden in Nagasaki in February 2021 when she gave birth despite having no known male companionship.” Now they know how it happened… “The zoo told CNN […]
“A new study unexpectedly found prairie voles genetically modified to carry no oxytocin receptors still formed strong social bonds and retained the ability to nurse offspring” ~ learn more
“Fundamental insights into microbial host-virus interactions led to the development of tools for genome editing using restriction enzymes or the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas technology. In this review, we provide a historical overview of milestones that led to the genome editing revolution […]
“Time of exposure is critical, as 670 nm light is only effective in the morning. This time dependent effect is likely due to the demonstrated shift in mitochondrial function across the day, and light exposure is likely only effective when […]
An old post on Tim Urban’s Wait But Why. “Because of this, humans evolved an over-the-top obsession with what others thought of them—a craving for social approval and admiration, and a paralyzing fear of being disliked. Let’s call that obsession […]