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New Findings re the Shroud of Turin

New Findings re the Shroud of Turin

William West mercatornet.com William West is a Sydney journalist. In April 2022 new tests on the Shroud of Turin – believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ – dated it to the first century. This dating contradicted a 1980s carbon dating that suggested the Shroud was from

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Why Some like It Hot: The Science of Spiciness

Why Some like It Hot: The Science of Spiciness

Roberto Silvestro Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) Roberto Silvestro is a PhD candidate enrolled in the biology program at the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi and the University of Quebec in Montreal. In 2019, He got a merit scholarship for foreign students provided by the Fonds de recherche du

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Five Things Science Has Told Us about the Mummy of Tutankhamun

Five Things Science Has Told Us about the Mummy of Tutankhamun

Jenefer Metcalfe mercatornet.com Jenefer Metcalfe is a Lecturer in Biomedical Egyptology, University of Manchester One hundred years ago, our understanding of ancient Egypt changed forever when the tomb of King Tutankhamun was found on November 4, 1922 in the Valley of Kings. Born around 1305BC, Tutankhamun only ruled Egypt

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Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in

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Always Have Room for Dessert? Here’s Why

?Cristy Burne particle.scitech.org.au Perth-based Cristy loves to inspire creativity, daring and resilience in her readers. She has worked as a science writer and presenter in Switzerland, the US, UK, Japan and South Africa. Cristy’s books are published in three languages and five countries. You’re stuffed

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Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in

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Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in

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Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in

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Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in

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Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in

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Fusion Ignition Hailed as a Major Breakthrough

Fusion Ignition Hailed as a Major Breakthrough

Carolyn Kuranz Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering University of Michigan What happened in the fusion chamber? Fusion is a nuclear reaction that combines two atoms to create one or more new atoms with slightly less total mass. The difference in mass is released as energy, as described by Einstein’s

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James Webb Space Telescope Revealing Early Universe

James Webb Space Telescope Revealing Early Universe

Daniel Merino Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast Nehal El-Hadi Science + Technology Editor The Conversation If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers

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Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in

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Medical Cannabis: Is it Really Just a Placebo?

If you read a media report on a study claiming to say something, it’s a reasonable bet that the study actually doesn’t say it. Case in point: A study ‘purporting’ to show that cannabis as a pain reliever is all just placebo. Of course the mainstream media was

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When the Arctic Really Was Ice-Free

When the Arctic Really Was Ice-Free

Remember when Australia’s dams ran dry and Perth became a ghost city? What about when Britain became snow-less in 2020? How about when most species disappeared in 1995? What, none of those dire predictions of climate doom came true? Eh, can’t get everything right. But one prediction that

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The Rise of the Machines

Alex Dook particle.scitech.org.au Can fiddler crabs and barrel shrimp inspire the robots of the future? Robots are becoming more integrated into our everyday lives. They can vacuum and mop our floors, mow our lawns and even clean our barbecues. Beyond the home, robots are helping scientists find

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