Large language models (LLMs) are powerful but static; they lack mechanisms to adapt their weights in response to new tasks, knowledge, or examples. We introduce Self-Adapting LLMs (SEAL), a...

Making a discovery with the potential for innovative applications in pharmaceutical development, a West Virginia University microbiology student has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effects similar to the semisynthetic drug LSD, which is used…

I just think it's neat!

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A reimplementation of Stable Diffusion 3.5 in pure PyTorch - yousef-rafat/miniDiffusion

Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter’s unique viewing angle will change our understanding of the Sun’s…

Some notes on things I find interesting and important. - frankmcsherry/blog

Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would quickly die from it. Now, most children in rich countries are cured.

The Netscape/Microsoft browser wars in the mid-90's were really vicious and competitive. They really had it out for each other. Netscape had...

A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are both interested and skeptical.

A 10-year-old study finally comes into the light

Honda Global | Honda R&D Co., Ltd., a research and development subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., today conducted a launch and landing test of an experimental reusable rocket*1 (6.3 m in length, 85 cm in diameter, 900 kg dry weight/1,312 kg wet weight)…