Quanta Magazine

The world has learned two things in the past few months about large language models (LLMs) — the computational engines […]

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It’s been estimated that the human body contains about 60,000 miles of blood vessels. The heart has to pump blood

In the fourth century, the Greek mathematician Pappus of Alexandria praised bees for their “geometrical forethought.” The hexagonal structure of