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(a) Artistic representation of quarrying activities for the extraction the capstone C-5 in Cerro de la Cruz Quarry #2. Drawing: Moisés Bellilty under guidance of José Antonio Lozano Rodríguez and Leonardo García Sanjuán. (b) Aspect of the thickness and shape of the C-5 capstone, the support on part of the O-10 orthostat and the tumular structure. University of Malaga excavation. Ferrer-Marqués, 1984. Conjunto Arqueológico Dólmenes de Antequera. (c)…

A review of Chomsky’s views on linguistics and LLMsPhoto by DeepMind on UnsplashBefore you come at me with pitchforks and torches for such a controversial title, please hear me out. Over the past few years, we’ve seen headlines and examples of what Large Language Models (BERT, GPT-3, LaMDA, etc.) can do — an explosion of capabilities in tasks ranging from sentiment classification, text generation, question answering, and more.This article is not questioning the engineering strides that Large Language Models (LLMs) have…

A man is on his hands and knees, scrubbing Florence Welch’s blood from a previously pristine white plinth. “No broken bones, they don’t think,” she says upon returning to the stage, her right foot bandaged after a conflab with a medic. She immediately launches into Choreomania, a song about a medieval phenomenon in which groups of people would be taken by the compulsion to dance themselves to the brink of death and beyond. It was, perhaps, always going to go this far.Florence + the Machine’s recent album, Dance Fever,…