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How ‘Embeddings’ Encode What Words Mean — Sort Of

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“Neural networks are currently the most powerful tools in artificial intelligence,” said...

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The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark and under extreme pressure...

‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work.

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Mathematics started with numbers — clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two...

The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change

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At 11:30 one night in May 2024, a graduate student, Chuankun Zhang...

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Nearly a century ago, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger called attention to a...