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Cellular Self-Destruction May Be Ancient. But Why? | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionIt can be hard to tell, at first, when a cell is on the verge of self-destruction.
It appears to be going about its usual...
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Improving your LLMs with RLHF on Amazon SageMaker | Amazon Web Services
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is recognized as the industry standard technique for ensuring large language models (LLMs) produce content that is truthful,...
Decentralization and democracy: Three centuries of debate
On this day, September 17th, 1787, delegates from all over the former British colonies in North America gathered at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,...
Is Starfield Kid Stuff Trait Worth It?
In most heroic backstories it’s the parent’s death that shapes the heroes into the rugged and tough protagonists that they are today. Thanks to...
All Starfield Character Traits
With only a few days before the official launch of Starfield the leaks are swarming the internet. One of the biggest leaks to recently...
Andreas Wagner Pursues the Secrets to Evolutionary Success | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionEvery organism responds to the world with an intricate cascade of biochemistry. There’s a source of heat here, a faint scent of food there,...
How Swarming Animals Can Help Humans and AI Make Better Decisions
The word swarm often carries negative connotations—think biblical plagues of locusts or high streets full of last-minute shoppers during the Christmas rush. However, swarming...
I once had an astrobiologist in the back of my cab – Physics World
Ian Randall reviews Taxi From Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe by Charles Cockell ...
In a Fierce Desert, Microbe ‘Crusts’ Show How Life Tamed the Land | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionIn 2017, a team of scientists from Germany trekked to Chile to investigate how living organisms sculpt the face of the Earth. A local...
Space Colonies: Artificial Photosynthesis May Be Key to Sustained Life Beyond Earth
Life on Earth owes its existence to photosynthesis—a process which is 2.3 billion years old. This immensely fascinating (and still not fully understood) reaction...
A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation
IntroductionWhen the researcher Daniel Kronauer was still a postdoc in 2008, he traveled to Okinawa, Japan, for wild specimens of clonal raider ants (the...
From Crypto Craze To Currency King: Bitcoin’s Potential To Replace The Dollar As The Global Reserve | Bitcoinist.com
Bitcoin is commonly pitched as a potential contender to develop into the subsequent international reserve foreign money. Nonetheless, it faces many hurdles, none extra...
Per Aspera VR Quest 2 Review: Civilization Building At Its Finest
Per Aspera VR is a narrative-driven terraforming sim available now for Quest 2 and Quest Pro. Does this flatscreen port survive its jump to...