better doing
What happens when we stop stereotyping each other?
This is a nice short video that reinforces the benefits of gathering more data. ~ learn more
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And here come multimodal Chain of Thought.
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 […]
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It’s all about that Chain of Thought.
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 […]
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Apple Watch glucose monitor in the news once more.
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 […]
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver unveils the future.
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
fun facts
Love will find a way.
“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 […]
under the microscope
CRISPR study questions everything we know about “love hormone” oxytocin.
“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
under the microscope
The genome editing revolution.
“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 […]
under the microscope
Weeklong improved color contrasts sensitivity after single 670 nm exposures.
“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 […]