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Dec 14, 2022

Creepy-crawly gel robots being trained to root out disease in body

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Scientists have created a teeny tiny, creepy crawly-like robot they hope will travel through the human body to cure diseases. Made of gelatin, the 3D-printed device may eventually replace pills or intravenous injections that can cause problematic side effects. Bring on the killer robots! We need ’em more than ever.

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Dec 14, 2022

ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

GPT Chat is a large language model trained by OpenAI, its function is to assist users in generating human-like text based on the input provided to it. It can assist with a wide range of tasks, such as answering questions, providing explanations, and generating original text. It’s designed to generate natural-sounding text, and it’s constantly learning and improving. It’s able to process and generate text at scale, making it a powerful tool for natural language processing and generation. It’s ultimate goal is to make it easier for people to interact with computers and access information using natural language.

Give it a try: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

I had GPT Chat rewrite an article… More.

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Dec 14, 2022

Singing inverters show electrical harmony for renewable power systems

Posted by in categories: energy, finance, sustainability, transportation

Standing among solar arrays and power grid equipment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), you might hear a faint, distorted melody buzzing from somewhere. You are not hallucinating—that gray box really is singing the Star Wars Theme, or the ice cream truck song, or Chopin’s Waltz in A minor. Power system engineers are just having some fun with an NREL capability that prevents stability problems on the electrical grid.

Usually, the engineers send another kind of waveform through the inverters and load banks: megawatts of power and voltage vibrations at many frequencies. The purpose of their research is to see how and the grid interact—to get them “in tune” and prevent dangerous electrical oscillations that show up like screechy feedback or a booming sub-bass.

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Dec 14, 2022

Will Epic Games Lead the New Internet Era?

Posted by in category: internet

ZeroHedge — On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Dec 14, 2022

In 10 years, gamers will use AI prompts to build what they play

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Called it. i want to start w/ planet Fall Out. see you in 2030.


In a guest editorial, Watch Dogs: Legion and Assassin’s Creed: Codename Hexe creative director Clint Hocking looks at the future of artificial intelligence, and how it will one day be able to generate full games.

Dec 14, 2022

Google won’t launch ChatGPT rival because of ‘reputational risk’

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

ChatGPT is not going to replace Google if it keeps making things up.

Dec 14, 2022

National Ignition Facility demonstrates net fusion energy gain in world first

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

After six decades we have finally reached controlled fusion “ignition.” Here is how it works and what it means (and doesn’t mean):

At the Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) the National Ignition Facility (NIF) starts with the Injection Laser System (ILS), a ytterbium-doped optical fiber laser (Master Oscillator) that produces a single very lower power, 1,053 nanometer (Infrared Light) beam. This single beam is split into 48 Pre-Amplifiers Modules (PAMs) that create four beams each (192 total). Each PAM conducts a two-stage amplification process via xenon flash lamps.


Surpassing energy breakeven at US facility constitutes a “Wright brothers moment” for fusion research, say researchers.

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Dec 14, 2022

Antihelium Offers Hope in the Search for Dark Matter

Posted by in category: cosmology

An experiment at the Large Hadron Collider suggests there’s a chance of catching this elusive evidence as it floats through our galactic neighborhood.

Dec 14, 2022

Could axion decay underlie excess cosmic optical background?

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

The cosmic optical background (COB) is the visible light emitted by all sources outside of the Milky Way. This faint glow of light, which can only be observed using very precise and sophisticated telescopes, could help astrophysics to learn more about the origins of the universe and what lies beyond our galaxy.

Last year, physicists working at different institutes across the United States published the most precise COB measurements collected so far, gathered by the New Horizons spacecraft, an interplanetary space probe launched by NASA over a decade ago. These measurements suggested that the COB is two times brighter than theoretical predictions.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have recently carried out a theoretical study exploring the possibility that this observed excess light could be caused by the of a hypothesized type of dark matter particles, known as axions. In their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, they showed that axions with masses between 8 and 20 eV could potentially account for the excess COB flux measured by the New Horizons team.

Dec 14, 2022

Best space images of 2022: 10 stellar views of the universe

Posted by in category: cosmology

The most jaw-dropping pictures of space this year.


From the Pillars of Creation to the Milky Way’s black hole, 2022 has been full of incredible photos from space. Here are the best space pictures of 2022.