If you've ever wondered what makes a LLM 'memorize' information, and spit it back out word-for-word, you should read this new piece by @peterha2l.bsky.social!
Highly recommend the @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social program for any scientists who want a behind-the-scenes look at how science journalism works!
Happy to share my first story for @nature.com, looking at an aspect of science that doesn’t get discussed enough: retractions that happen because scientists discover honest mistakes in their work. I spoke with researchers who chose to self-retract about what helped them get through the process.
So excited to share a comic I wrote out on @snexplores.bsky.social! Flamingos make underwater whirlpools with their heads and feet to catch shrimp 🦩🌀 Written during my @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social this summer: www.snexplores.org/article/flam.... Beautiful illustrations by the amazing JoAnna Wendel!
Earlier this year, California’s Death Valley was overrun by a superbloom. I visited the park in late March. It was incredible to see the desert all covered in purple and yellow flowers – and I wrote a short piece about it for Science News Explores. www.snexplores.org/article/scie...
@natastron.nature.com's beautiful September cover shows the first ever image of a dying start that exploded twice on it's way to become a type 1a supernova. I got to write about this really cool discovery this summer for @sciencenews.bsky.social.
www.sciencenews.org/article/supe...
So excited to share a story I wrote for
@snexplores.bsky.social on how some animals make themselves (almost) invisible - and why humans can't do the same! My last piece written as a
@aaasmassmedia.bsky.social, and probably the one I had the most fun working on.
www.snexplores.org/article/how-...
Chilean flamingos use their beaks and feet to create underwater whirlpools that suck in prey.
What do a group researchers do with 200k GPU hours from NVIDIA worth around a million dollars? They train a bunch of AI models on fake people from Arizona, of course!
Hubble is a new open source model suite appearing at ICLR this month. Read the full story here: www.science.org/content/arti...
Beautiful new cover at Nature Astronomy's
Concentric shells of highly ionized calcium and sulfur in the ejecta of a type Ia supernova provide evidence of the double-detonation scenario for exploding sub-Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarfs. 🧪🔭
www.nature.com/natastron/vo... @natastron.nature.com
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New tool could help researchers probe how models “unlearn” sensitive training material
🧑🔬 @sofiavritzer.bsky.social’s summer was packed with fascinating stories at @sciencenews.bsky.social thanks to the support of the Heising-Simons Foundation. Take a look at the stories here: www.aaas.org/programs/mas...
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Retractions, which have long been associated with misconduct or poor scientific practice, can carry a lot of stigma
Some in the research community want that to change
go.nature.com/46R3tJF
Peter Hall
Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.
