This remains one of the most consequential experiments in AI: Bloomberg spent over $10M training a GPT-3.5 class AI on their own financial data last year…

…only to find that GPT-4 8k, the AI...

🍀 The science and the comedy of luck

I implemented search and filtering for entities on our product at epilot. The users were heavily using the feature, however, a unique issue surfaced: difficulties in filtering file names containing diacritical marks like umlauts (Äpfel, über, schön, etc.).…

Real-world rollercoaster designers and the game’s creator, Chris Sawyer, reflect on the impact of the primitive-looking theme park sim that became a late 90s icon

Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.

Eclipsophile.com presents climate studies of cloud cover and weather along the tracks of upcoming solar eclipses in order to help select viewing locations and travel destinations. Cloud-cover maps and weather statistics are also available for popular aurora…

When wastewater surveillance turns into a hunt for a single infected individual, the ethics get tricky.

Training data poisoning on LLMs deals with injecting poisonous data during the training phase. In this article, we will be focusing on attack scenarios, previous successful attacks, and prevention mechanisms along with good examples.

⬛️ CLI tool and library for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file - Y2Z/monolith

This post is the second in a series about reforming academic publishing:

I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.

We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different…

A report found that large firms pressured suppliers to favor them over competitors. It also concluded that some retailers “seem to have used rising costs as an opportunity to further hike prices.”

A new study suggests that sudden jumps in LLMs’ abilities are neither surprising nor unpredictable, but are actually the consequence of how we measure ability in AI.

In feline-friendly Turkey, an anthropologist considers what long-standing practices of caring for cats reveal about human societies.

One day in 1997, psychology professor Jennifer Mather answered her phone to hear the excited voice of Roland Anderson, her collaborator in a rather unusual study of animal behavior. “She’s bouncing…

Real-time game engine, built on open-source. Reflections are in real-time. - the-mirror-gdp/the-mirror

StarTech.com has introduced its latest Thunderbolt 4/USB4 docking station, which has a plethora of ports and supports four display outputs. This makes it suitable for 4Kp60 quad-monitor setups often used for professional applications. The Thunderbolt 4 Quad…