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WOW! Sugar Found In Ocean Waters Reportedly Equivalent To 32 Billion Coca Cola Cans

Not Kidding! A Sugar Mountain has been discovered deep within the ocean.


Scientists have found that seagrass meadows on the ocean floor can keep humongous amounts of sugar beneath their swaying fronds. The sugar is in the shape of sucrose (the primary ingredient in sugar used in cooking), and it is released from the seagrasses into soil beneath, recognised as the rhizosphere.

Meta won’t build a dedicated metaverse after all, exec says

An interesting development, you could say revision, or even a back-tracking on the vision for just what it is that Meta plans to build, eventually.

I think it’s important to keep in mind, despite the excitement, that these technologies are still experimental in many ways, they take time to develop, and they will change. Keeping this in mind can help to temper our expectations, but also to spot the hype.


Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, published an 8,000 word essay about metaverse ideals.

Selection-Inference: Exploiting Large Language Models for Interpretable Logical Reasoning

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be capable of impressive.
few-shot generalisation to new tasks. However, they still tend to perform.
poorly on multi-step logical reasoning problems. Here we carry out a.
comprehensive evaluation of LLMs on 50 tasks that probe different aspects of.

Logical reasoning. We show that language models tend to perform fairly well at.

Single step inference or entailment tasks, but struggle to chain together.
multiple reasoning steps to solve more complex problems. In light of this, we.

Propose a Selection-Inference (SI) framework that exploits pre-trained LLMs as.

General processing modules, and alternates between selection and inference to.

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