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Mysterious marks on 40,000-year-old Ice Age figurines may actually be the earliest precursor to writing

Deep in a cave in southwestern Germany, a Stone Age artist carved a tiny mammoth from a piece of tusk. They then covered it ...

Writing May Have Begun 40,000 Years Ago

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...
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Exposing biases, moods, personalities and abstract concepts hidden in large language models

By now, ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models have accumulated so much human knowledge that they're far from simple answer-generators; they can also express abstract concepts, such as ...
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Calculate Sales Tax: Simple Steps and Real-Life Examples

Elysse Bell is a finance and business writer for Investopedia. She writes about small business, personal finance, technology, and more. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a leading consumer ...
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Tokens and Tokenization are an Important for Fundamental LLM Understanding

Tokens are the fundamental units that LLMs process. Instead of working with raw text (characters or whole words), LLMs convert input text into a sequence of numeric IDs called tokens using a ...
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Numerical Encoding for Human Genetic Variants

Nicola Asuni. VariantKey - A Reversible Numerical Representation of Human Genetic Variants., bioRxiv 473744; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/473744 Human genetic ...
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Encoding Cardinality Constraints in Automated Reasoning

Automated reasoning (AR) is a branch of artificial intelligence that applies various reasoning techniques to solve problems from mathematics and logic. AR engines use clever optimizations and ...