SpaceX’s announcement of the new V2 Starship marks a significant commitment to innovation and improvement in the evolution of Starship, with potential game-changing advancements in technology and capabilities.
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There has been a breakthrough when it comes to whale language that gives us a huge window into their communication.
Artificial intelligence researchers claim to have made the world’s first scientific discovery using a large language model, a breakthrough that suggests the technology behind ChatGPT and similar programs can generate information that goes beyond human knowledge.
The finding emerged from Google DeepMind, where scientists are investigating whether large language models, which underpin modern chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, can do more than repackage information learned in training and come up with new insights.
“When we started the project there was no indication that it would produce something that’s genuinely new,” said Pushmeet Kohli, the head of AI for science at DeepMind. “As far as we know, this is the first time that a genuine, new scientific discovery has been made by a large language model.”
Microsoft research releases Phi-2 and promptbase.
Phi-2 outperforms other existing small language models, yet it’s small enough to run on a laptop or mobile device.
Over the past few months, our Machine Learning Foundations team at Microsoft Research has released a suite of small language models (SLMs) called “Phi” that achieve remarkable performance on a variety of benchmarks. Our first model, the 1.3 billion parameter Phi-1 (opens in new tab), achieved state-of-the-art performance on Python coding among existing SLMs (specifically on the HumanEval and MBPP benchmarks). We then extended our focus to common sense reasoning and language understanding and created a new 1.3 billion parameter model named Phi-1.5 (opens in new tab), with performance comparable to models 5x larger.
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Federal funding brings together experts to chart a viable path to realizing fusion energy as a clean power source.
The University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) has received a four-year, $10 million award from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fusion Energy Science (FES) to lead a national research hub dedicated to advancing inertial fusion energy (IFE) science and technology.
The LLE-led inertial fusion energy hub—named IFE-COLoR, which stands for Inertial Fusion Energy-Consortium on LPI (laser-plasma interaction) Research—is one of only three such hubs in the nation selected by the DOE through competitive peer review. The award is part of a recent DOE initiative to stimulate IFE research and development by building on the momentum of scientists’ breakthrough in achieving ignition, or a fusion reaction that creates a net energy gain, last year.
Study demonstrates that inhibiting stromal class I histone deacetylases (HDACs) can effectively slow down pancreatic cancer progression, shedding light on a new therapeutic approach targeting the tumor microenvironment.
Summary: In a rare sight that captivated local communities, SpaceX Superloads have been reported passing through Kansas. These massive transports are carrying essential components for SpaceX’s ambitious aerospace projects. The transit of such large cargos demonstrates the intricate logistics involved in the space industry and showcases the growing presence of aerospace innovation in the heartland of the United States.
Understanding SpaceX Superloads A “Superload” refers to a cargo that exceeds the standard size and weight limits for road transportation. In the context of SpaceX, these could be parts for their launch vehicles, such as Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy rockets, or perhaps sections of the stainless steel Starship being developed for missions to Mars.
The Passage Through Kansas Reports have surfaced that residents along certain highways in Kansas have witnessed the procession of these massive SpaceX components. The journey necessitates meticulous planning and coordination with local authorities to manage road closures, traffic control, and sometimes even the removal of street signs or lights to facilitate passage.
Innovative neuromodulation techniques provided by a specialist institute in New Jersey can restore lost functions.
While we often think of diseases as caused by foreign bodies—bacteria or viruses—there are hundreds of diseases affecting humans that result from errors in cellular production of proteins.
A team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst leveraged the power of cutting-edge technology, including an innovative technique called glycoproteomics, to unlock the carbohydrate-based code that governs how certain classes of proteins form themselves into the complex shapes necessary to keep us healthy.
The research, published in the journal Molecular Cell, explores members of a family of proteins called serpins, which are implicated in a number of diseases. The research is the first to investigate how the location and composition of carbohydrates attached to the serpins ensure that they fold correctly.
