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Apr 30, 2024
The Casimir effect may not come from vacuum energy
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: quantum physics, robotics/AI
Recently I saw a post on twitter claiming that AI could be powered with quantum vacuum energy. The post was accompanied by a figure from a paper published in Nature. Unfortunately for the poster, but fortunately for science, the paper had nothing to do with extracting energy from the vacuum. Rather, it was a description of an experimental realization of a transistor that uses the Casimir effect to mediate and amplify energy transfer across a new kind of transistor.
Apr 30, 2024
MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: energy, innovation
The report features six studies that thoroughly examined MIT’s superconducting magnets design used in its breakthrough fusion test.
Apr 30, 2024
Archeologists Say They’ve Found Ancient Underground “Pathways for the Dead”
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: futurism
An archaeologists has been able to find forgotten structures hidden in Ireland that were probably used as pathways for the dead.
Apr 30, 2024
You are what you eat: Paris Olympic athletes offered meat-free menus
Posted by Robert Bosnjak in categories: food, sustainability
Using Olympics for pushing food agenda, I wonder how that food will influence sport results?
With 60% of the food served to the public being meat-free and 80% sourced locally, the Paris Olympic Games are setting a new standard for environmental sustainability.
Apr 30, 2024
Meaningless fillers enable complex thinking in large language models
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: mathematics, robotics/AI
1/ Researchers have found that AI models can solve complex tasks like “3SUM” by using simple dots like “…” instead of sentences.
Researchers have found that specifically trained LLMs can solve complex problems just as well using dots like “…” instead of full sentences. This could make it harder to control what’s happening in these models.
The researchers trained Llama language models to solve a difficult math problem called “3SUM”, where the model has to find three numbers that add up to zero.
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Apr 30, 2024
Revolutionizing Factory Tasks: Tesla’s Optimus Robot Expert Explains
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: robotics/AI
Brighter with Herbert.
Apr 30, 2024
The biggest myths about electric vehicles
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: sustainability, transportation
As electric vehicle (EV) sales skyrocket, more than doubling in 2021 compared to 2020, and automotive companies announce massive investments in batteries and EVs, the transition from gas to electricity-powered vehicles is looking all the more inevitable.
Still, misinformation abounds during this exciting technological change. Here are seven of the biggest myths about EVs.
1. Electric cars will always be more expensive. Up front electric vehicle prices have steadily fallen since the turn of the century, to the point where they are closing in on parity with gas vehicles.
Apr 29, 2024
A new approach to dark matter could help us solve galactic anomalies
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cosmology
Cosmological puzzles are tempting astronomers to rethink our simple picture of the universe – and ask whether dark matter is even stranger than we thought.
By Stuart Clark
Apr 29, 2024
Atlas, forefather of humanoid robots, gives way to next generation
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Boston Dynamics is retiring the original Atlas at the age of 11. TechCrunch’s Brian Heater discusses the pioneering bot’s legacy and what the company has in mind for its offspring.