boundaries

Google's announced the Pixel 7a — and made it available for immediate purchase — during its annual I/O conference. Like other A-model Pixel phones, this is a budget version of what came before, namely the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro. At $499, it's $100 cheaper than either of its siblings but manages to meet or exceed many of their specs. It has a similar design, uses the same Tensor G2 processing chip, and offers 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage like the base model Pixel 7. The 7a also matches the water resistance and display…

All images are original creations.This (written jointly with Marco Tulio Ribeiro) is part 2 of a series on the art of prompt design (part 1 here), where we talk about controlling large language models (LLMs) with guidance.In this post, we’ll discuss how the greedy tokenization methods used by language models can introduce a subtle and powerful bias into your prompts, leading to puzzling generations.Language models are not trained on raw text, but rather on tokens, which are chunks of text that often occur together,…

Dear Reader, PREMIUM The Paper Menagerie. My mother doesn’t call me these days. She’s 77 and lonely, so it must be me. Mothering three toddlers to teens has made me a distracted daughter. I think back to our phone calls. ‘Oh hello Mum.. oh no sweetie, what are you putting in your mouth.. yes, mum you were saying..do NOT pick that bit of rubbish up..so sorry Mum.. hey kiddo, step back on the pavement, it’s DANGEROUS to walk on that road, Mum, can call you back?’ And before I know it, ten years have passed, and…

An origami-inspired robot designed by a UCLA-led team that can reverse direction when either of its antennae senses an obstacle. Credit: Wenzhong Yan/UCLAA team led by UCLA created autonomous OrigaMechs without chips, utilizing conductive materials.Roboticists have adopted a method resembling the traditional art of paper folding to fabricate autonomous machines from thin, pliant sheets. These lightweight robots are more straightforward and cost-effective to manufacture, and their more compact form makes them more…

The Xiaomi 13 Ultra offers an incredible camera experience that’s topped off with great performance and a stunning display.Pros Excellent cameras Good performance Great design Stunning display Fast charging The Xiaomi 13 and 13 Pro offered an excellent smartphone experience — but it turns out Xiaomi had one more trick up its sleeve. The Xiaomi 13 Ultra is aimed at stepping things up once again, specifically with an even better camera than the already-great camera found on the Xiaomi 13 Pro.…

The famous thought experiment of Schrödinger’s Cat neatly sums up a complex quantum phenomenon, highlighting how bizarre that unseen world is by putting it in terms we can visualize. Now, scientists have created the heaviest Schrödinger’s Cat to date, probing the boundaries between quantum and classical physics.Particles on the quantum scale can behave in ways that don’t sound possible according to our everyday experience. For instance, it’s perfectly normal for particles to exist in a superposition of two states at once,…

As a Pikachu costume-wearing, corgi-toting leftist candidate, Kenneth Mejia’s unorthodox style helped fuel his insurgent campaign for Los Angeles city controller.But less than six months after Mejia, 32, trounced a career politician to win the job, two former employees allege that he created an uncomfortable work environment where personal boundaries were often blurred in both the controller’s office and on the campaign.They say Mejia frequently made comments about the sex lives of two young campaign workers prior to his…

Credit: Science Journalism In Latin America and the Caribbean 2022 (2023) The results of a survey mapping the views of science journalists on science journalism in Latin America and the Caribbean were released during the 12th World Conference of Science Journalists in Medellín, Colombia. The report, "Science Journalism In Latin…

Day two of Dynatrace Perform began with a great discussion between Kelsey Hightower, Distinguished Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform and Andi Grabner, DevOps Evangelist at Dynatrace. The theme of their discussion was redefining the boundaries of people, processes and platforms.  Kelsey began the discussion by explaining that his career took off when he began focusing on the fundaments. When he sees something new, he takes a step back and thinks about the first time humans were involved in something like this.…

Latin superstar Bad Bunny is continuing to break boundaries as he’s announced as the cover star for this week’s issue of ‘TIME’.For the first time ever, the text on the cover of the magazine is completely in Spanish. The cover story, written by Andrew Chow and Mariah Espada, delves into Bad Bunny’s refusal to compromise on anything as he makes a huge impact on global pop culture.Credit: Elliot & Erick Jiménez for TIMEAccompanying the cover story is a full transcript in Spanish and English of ‘TIME’s wide-ranging…