This talk is part of a workshop on “To be or not to be… conscious. Phenomenal Realism and Illusionism”, held at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) on September 29–30, 2022, organized by François Kammerer and Tobias Schlicht.

Championing a global deal for nature and people — rita maria el zaghloul — director, high ambition coalition for nature and people secretariat.

The long-awaited PureRef 2.0 update has arrived, introducing visual and performance improvements, as well as some of the most requested features.

Using atomic layer deposition, scientists have created a new light-absorbing thin film that could help telescopes see a starrier night.

A study now published in Nature Communications brings remarkable insights into the enigmatic behavior of supercritical fluids, a hybrid state of matter occupying a unique space between liquids and gases, and arising in domains that go from the pharmaceutical industry to planetary science. The obtained results are at the limit of current experimental possibilities and could only be obtained in a high flux neutron source such as the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL).

⚔️ Closed-source vs. Open-weight LLMs The gap between closed-source and open-weight models is closing in terms of MMLU.

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Post-training, model editing, quantization.

Researchers have developed a new technique to view living mammalian cells. The team used a powerful laser, called a soft X-ray free electron laser, to emit ultrafast pulses of illumination at the speed of femtoseconds, or quadrillionths of a second.

Closing in on the theoretical maximum efficiency, devices for turning heat into electricity are edging closer to being practical for use on the grid, according to University of Michigan research.