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Instagram’s new ‘Your Algorithm’ tool gives you more control over the Reels you see

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...
Wall Street Journal

The Curriculum Flowchart That Has Texas Professors Up in Arms

A controversy is swirling at a Texas university. The trigger? A flowchart. On Dec. 1, the new chancellor of the Texas Tech University system sent professors a diagram laying out a chain of approval ...
The Atlantic

America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel sits down with Eliot Higgins, founder of the open-source investigative collective Bellingcat, to examine how our public sphere slid from healthy debate ...
Phys.org

The simulated Milky Way: 100 billion stars using 7 million CPU cores

Researchers have successfully performed the world's first Milky Way simulation that accurately represents more than 100 billion individual stars over the course of 10 thousand years. This feat was ...
Reuters

In AI-simulated Fed meeting, political pressure polarises board

TOKYO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - A simulated Federal Reserve meeting that used artificial intelligence agents modeled on real-life policymakers showed political pressure polarised members of the board in ...
Scientific American

The Math Trick Hidden in Your Credit Card Number

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...
Ars Technica

LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find

In recent months, the AI industry has started moving toward so-called simulated reasoning models that use a “chain of thought” process to work through tricky problems in multiple logical steps. At the ...
Live Science

IBM and Moderna have simulated the longest mRNA pattern without AI — they used a quantum computer instead

Scientists used IBM's R2 Heron quantum processor to predict the secondary protein structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA sequence. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Reuters

Taiwan launches biggest war games with simulated attacks against military command

Taiwan's military drills focus on decentralising command Exercises include HIMARS, Sky Sword missiles, 22,000 reservists China dismisses drills as bluff, says Taiwan can't resist PLA TAIPEI, July 9 ...
New York Post

Is this proof we’re living in a ‘simulated universe’? Scientist’s theory points to possible clue

Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction. Dr. Melvin ...
IEEE

A Simplified Simulated Annealing Algorithm and Its Implementation

Abstract: Digital annealing is a technology that has emerged to address the difficulty of implementing quantum annealing. Traditional CMOS is used to approximate quantum annealing operations, which ...