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No dawdling here: Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Games should continue hiding and obfuscating key game information as its live-service production pipeline goes on. Do the Terminids now fly? Do you trust your own eyes, ears, and dead Helldivers? Of course not! And that’s how it should be. Let’s take a small step back first, though. The modern gaming media industry is positively inundated with meta-gaming and content strategizing: you can find a dozen expert (or “expert,” as it were) content creators discussing the ins…

Girl power is amazing! There’s nothing that women can’t accomplish when they band together to build each other up, and the bond of sisterhood can be incredibly powerful. But unfortunately, thanks to pesky internalized misogyny, some women out there need a little reminder that we should all be on the same team.Below, you’ll find some of the cringiest posts from the Not Like The Other Girls subreddit. This group calls out "pick me girls" who have decided to put other women down in an attempt to prove how unique and…

The calculation of the norm of vectors is essential in both artificial intelligence and quantum computing for tasks such as feature scaling, regularization, distance metrics, convergence criteria, representing quantum states, ensuring unitarity of operations, error correction, and designing quantum algorithms and circuits. You will learn how to calculate the Euclidean (norm/distance), also known as the L2 norm, of a single-dimensional (1D) tensor in Python libraries like NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, and…

The figure shows the most powerful heat wave in the Arctic Ocean to date in 2020, which continued for 103 days. The cumulative heat intensity sums up the daily anomalies in water temperature recorded over the duration of the heat wave in degrees Celsius. Credit: UHH/CLICCS/A. Barkhordarian Marine heat waves will become a regular occurrence in the Arctic in the near future and are a product of higher anthropogenic greenhouse-gas…

Norm Macdonald was never the most popular guy with audiences. He was fired from Saturday Night Live. His various movies and sitcoms often under-performed. Many of his friends and fellow stand-up comedians were able to book much larger venues and likely make a lot more money than he did, but yet, when he tragically passed away, the outpourings of memories and support from those he touched were as loud as you'd see for some of the most famous celebrities in the world.I think it's because he saw life in a completely…

Transformers have become the model architecture of choice for many vision tasks. Vision Transformers (ViTs) are especially popular. They apply the transformer directly to sequences of image patches. ViTs now match or exceed CNNs on benchmarks like image classification. However, researchers from Meta and INRIA have identified some strange artifacts in the inner workings of ViTs. In this post, we'll do a deep dive into a new paper investigating the cause of these artifacts. And we'll see how researchers used a simple…

New research funded by the Pentagon suggests that artificial intelligence can scan and analyze blocks of text to discern whether the humans who wrote it have done something wrong or not. David Byrne on New Tech and AI | Gizmodo InterviewThe paper, written by two researchers at Ben-Gurion University, leverages predictive models that can analyze messages for what they call “social norm violations.” To do this, researchers used GPT-3 (a programmable large language model created by OpenAI that can automate content creation…

A view of high-rise buildings is seen along the Suzhou Creek in Shanghai, China on July 5, 2023.Ying Tang | NurPhoto | Getty ImagesThe Chinese economy could be facing a prolonged period of lower growth, a prospect which may have global ramifications after 45 years of rapid expansion and globalization.The Chinese government is ramping up a host of measures aimed at boosting the economy, with a key Politburo meeting scheduled later this week to review the country's first-half performance.Chinese gross domestic product grew…

Indicative changes in sea temperature, ocean pH, sea level and tropical cyclones based on climate projections. Credit: Great Barrier Reef 2019 Outlook Report The Bureau of Meteorology this week declared a 70% chance of an El Niño developing this year. This raises concern for the health of the Great Barrier Reef, which is under continuing threat from climate change. …

Photo by Marc Piasecki/FilmMagic Just when you thought the headlines surrounding the Depp family dynasty would be restricted solely to father Johnny, along comes his daughter Lily-Rose to set temperatures rising as the star of HBO’s incendiary upcoming series The Idol. Thanks to a behind the scenes report that emerged a few months back – which has since been debunked by the key creatives – we’d been conditioned to expect one of the year’s most polarizing releases across any genre and medium. As it turns out,…