Scientists use string theory to crack the code of natural networks

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...
MIT Technology Review

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...
MIT Technology Review

How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.
Unite.AI

The Coming Wave of Multimodal Attacks: When AI Tools Become the New Exploit Surface

As large language models (LLMs) evolve into multimodal systems that can handle text, images, voice and code, they’re also becoming powerful orchestrators of external tools and connectors. With this ...
Hackaday

The Staggering Complexity And Subtlety Of Concurrency

If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write code. And if you write code eventually you’re gonna have to ...
University of California

Rewriting the code: The inside story of the first CRISPR cure

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...
GitHub

The public SAMPLE dataset

The SAMPLE dataset (Synthetic and Measured Paired Labeled Experiment) dataset consists of measured SAR imagery from the MSTAR data collect and is paired with simulated synthetic SAR imagery. The ...
BBC

What are modal verbs?

Modal verbs are verbs that indicate likelihood, ability, permission or obligation.