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EPFL researchers have developed GEMLI, a pioneering tool that could democratize and vastly improve how we study the journey of cells from their embryonic state through to specialized roles in the body, as well as their changes in cancer and other diseases.

Millions of years ago, animals adapted to become warm-blooded amid huge climactic changes. Now scientists hope these clues from the past could help us understand what lies ahead by Tiffany Cassidy.

From Words to Numbers.

Your large language model is secretly a capable regressor when given in-context examples.

We analyze how well pre-trained large language models (e.g., Llama2, GPT-4, Claude 3, etc) can do linear and non-linear #regression when given…

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Microsoft presents Rho-1

Not All Tokens Are What You Need https://huggingface.co/papers/2404.

Previous language model pre-training methods have uniformly applied a next-token #prediction #LOSS to all training #tokens.

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For more than 20 years, researchers have known that areas of birds’ brains dedicated to singing show neural patterns during sleep akin to the ones they use while awake and singing.

One hundred twenty satellites, with their own distinct purpose, hover our Earth. How the structure of continents, the sun, human interaction and many other factors contribute to Earth’s climate and survival/evolution of life.

A new way of interpreting the elusive mathematics of quantum mechanics could fundamentally change our understanding of reality.

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Physical touch from both humans and animals can reduce pain, feelings of depression, and anxiety in adults and children, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in Nature Human Behaviour. Read the paper:

This pre-registered systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis examined the effects of receiving touch for promoting mental and physical well-being, quantifying the efficacy of touch interventions for different ways of administration.