Category Technology

LLM Shibboleths determine AI effectiveness

2025-05-28 Brian Kihoon Lee LLM training datasets includes novices asking questions that don’t make sense, as well as experts that know exactly the piece of information they are lacking and are now requesting. How you ask your question determines which…

These bubbles kill cancer

2023-10-06 Jim Lynch The process [of histotripsy] uses a transducer—which converts electricity into sound—to deliver ultrasound waves to a malignant mass at a precise location. When the waves hit gasses inside cancerous cells, they generate clouds of tiny bubbles through…

What Are Dreams For?

2023-08-31 Amanda Gefter In a series of papers, Blumberg articulated his theory that the brain uses REM sleep to “learn” the body. You wouldn’t think that the body is something a brain needs to learn, but we aren’t born with…