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The golden oldies are the research papers of the last few decades
Microsoft’s ‘ImageNet’ was the top-cited paper of all time from 1955-2014, as per an analysis by Nature. It is followed by a 2009 paper ‘ImageNet: A Large-Scale hierarchicalimage database’ which is ranked number 24. Some of the most famous papers did not cite the original work because it was too expensive when it was published.
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The editor of ‘Washington Post’ quit due to the new opinion of Jeff Bezos
The Washington Post Opinions Editor David Maraniss has resigned after being recruited by Jeff Bezos to oversee the paper’s new sections. Bezos had asked Maraniss to lead the reformed sections and said they’d be writing daily in support and defence of personal liberties and free markets. “It used to be that a local newspaper would…
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A journal that is small is the best way to get a species protected
Researchers have found that a small percentage of citations received by European Space Agency (ESA) came from journals with an impact factor of more than 9. The team created an impact factor based on the fraction of papers that a journal publishes that are used by the ESA. Pacific Science was the top ranked journal…
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The Republicans’ stop-gap bill failed, bringing a potential shutdown closer
NPR has announced the return of its student podcast contest, NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge. The contest, which was last held in 2020, is aimed at students in grades kindergarten to 12th and asks them to write, record and produce eligible podcasts between three and eight minutes in length. The grand prize winner will receive a…
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When trained on data, models collapse
The effects of generational learning on language models were described in the Supplementary Materials of wikitext2. The study found that over the generations, models tend to produce more probable sequences from the original data and start introducing their own improbable sequences, that is, errors. A random 10% of the original data points have been trained…
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Ultra-detailed brain map shows what the brain is made of
Researchers have discovered that surprisal (in which sentence context is modulated by word) affects the ability of neurons to accurately predict correct semantic domains on a per-word level. They added that when sentences were presented with eight-words long, the participants heard words in a random order. As participants listened to multiple short sentences containing 450…
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Not all open source models are open
A study by University of Nijmegen scientist Markmanse and a computational linguist has found that small firms, with few resources, are the most open-sourced language models. The study found that almost half of the models that they analysed don’t provide any details about data sets beyond generic descriptors. The models must be open to scrutiny,…
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A guide to the nature index
The Nature Index uses Share, a fractional count which takes into account the share of authorship on each article. The total Share available per article is 1, and the author’s Share is divided between each institution if he is affiliated with more than one. The total share is calculated by summing the Share for individual…
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The town hall was canceled because of reported death threats
Several game engine developers have warned that they will abandon Unity if its new pricing model is not reversed. “That said… Butcher’s Creek will be my last game on Unity. I hope this Unity thing will be like the ones before because none of them were as bad,” the developer of Dusk said. “One of…
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Private communities will be removed from the website unless they reopen
Reddit has said it’ll remove the mod status of subreddits that are not public by the end of the week. It added that it’ll take people’s request into account if they reply to let them know they’re interested in actively moderating the community. “This community…cannot continue” past the deadline,ModCodeofConduct wrote in a message seen by…
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A sci-fi magazine has stopped accepting submissions after getting a lot of Artificial Intelligence stories
ScienceFiction magazine shut down submissions after a surge in stories that were clearly machine-written by an AI-generated magazine. It didn’t reveal the method it was using to identify the AI-generated stories because it didn’t want to help people game the system, but its editor-in-chief Neil Clarke said the quality of the writing was very poor.
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The union and the publisher have reached a tentative agreement
The union representing around 250 striking HarperCollins employees in Canada and the publisher have reached a tentative agreement. Contracts for the United Auto Workers of Canada are pending a vote by their memberships, and both parties have released statements saying there will be increases to minimum salaries across levels and a bonus of up to…
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Firework supernova remnant is unlike any seen before
Astronomers have imaged a supernova remnant, the remnants of two comets, that they claim smashed into each other around 850 years ago. “I have worked on supernova remnants for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” astronomer Robert Fesen said. Fesen said he has worked on supernova remnants for 30 years, and has…
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And is what Star Wars was about meant to be?
Speaking about Star Wars: ‘Andor’, actor Matt London said that it focuses on the reality of power and violence instead of the fun aspects of the franchise. “I don’t like little girl characters. In many Star Wars and sci-fi shows, the characters are one-dimensional, because in every scene, they have the exact same personality and…
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The obstacles are being overcome to invention.
This paper describes an analysis of the Disruptive Effects of Publications, Citation and Authorship Practices. Our regression-based approach is applicable to Models 4 (papers) and 8 (patents). We observe thevalues of the CD index decline even when we do not account for changes in publication, citation and authorship practices. The two alternative measures both show…
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The verification line is between order and chaos.
Twitter has suspended its ‘Twitter Blue’ service, a subscription service that allows users to get blue checkmark on their profiles. The new version of its iOS app will allow users who pay a monthly subscription price to get a blue checkmark on their profiles. However, the menu option to sign up for Twitter Blue disappears…
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Sometimes it is ok to cheat in video games.
God Of War: Ragnarok, the latest entry in the franchise, is not a remake of the first game but it’s a refreshed version of the game. The game’s entry point was refreshed in the latest game, but it’s not a remake of the first game. It can feel bloated at times and it can feel…
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Artists do not have to fear artificial image generators.
Generative AI (AI) makes images, text or codes by absorbing visual culture within an image and adding noise to it. The tools work by spidering images from across the internet, absorbing the visual culture within them by scanning their caption and then adding a noise to them until they look static. AI starts with a…
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North Korea confirms that it used nukes to wipe out its enemies.
North Korea has fired a missile off its west coast that flew over Japan, a day after it conducted its 26th missile test, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Thursday. According to a CNN count, Wednesday’s test was the 26th missile test of either cruise or ballistic missiles by the Kim regime.
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Here’s a description of what could happen next.
Media Matters for America President Angelo Carusone has said that alternative platforms like Parler, 454 and Truth Social promise less restrictions on speech and that’s a “good view” of what it will look like under Elon Musk. He further said that alternative platforms are good bets as they promises less restrictions on speech and that’s…
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Republicans thought the problem with Herschel Walker was coming a mile away.
A Democratic Congressional Committee (DCCC) ad released in mid-September claimed that Marc Molinaro, the Republican candidate in New York’s 19th District, would “stand with politicians who support a nationwide ban on abortion”. It identified April Becker as one of the Nevada House candidates who “want to join the Republicans in Congress trying to ban abortion…
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The Fed may have changed the market forever.
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) on Wednesday said that it plans to raise interest rates and limit the economy until prices come down, because it’s worried that rapid inflation will last. “Reducing inflation is likely…to require a sustained period of below-trend growth and softening of labour market conditions,” Fed Governor Jerome Powell said. It is…
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The failures of Russia’s top brass is now a fair game.
The US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a think tank, said that Russian military setbacks in the Donbas region of Ukraine “were fundamentally changing the Russian information space”. ISW added that the unease in Russian society over mobilization was changing its information space. Earlier this month, the Ukrainian military had taken the city…
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Doctors and advocates are working to tackle abortion misinformation.
Six states in the US are funding ‘crisis pregnancy centres’ with funds from Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, CNN reported. Pennsylvania, which has sent about $70 million to the centres through Real Alternatives over the last 10 years, is the largest recipient. However, several women said they felt misled by the centers and disturbed that…
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Biden’s immigration policies result in frustration and finger-pointing.
US President Joe Biden’s administration has faced criticism from immigrant advocates and Democrats over its increase in immigration at the US-Mexico border. A former Obama administration official said that the issue sits on the “cracks” of a whole set of structures at the White House. “Much of the focus, and much of the public focus,…