2+ week, 4+ day ago  (890+ words) So where did the goblins come from? There are two ways to understand these quirks. The first is the natural engineering response: these are technical bugs, artifacts of imperfect training, and they reflect how different language models are from human…...

21+ hour, 34+ min ago  (398+ words) India-born neuroscientist Charan Ranganath finds that, within 20 minutes, people forget 40 percent of what they learn and, after a few days, only 20 percent is remembered. Since the past is over, why should we remember? It helps in making sense of the…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (503+ words) Of all the words in the English language, the word "OK" is pretty new: Its only been used for about 180 years. Although its become the most spoken word on the planet, its kind of a strange word. Sometimes its spelled…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (503+ words) Why do we say "OK? Of all the words in the English language, the word "OK" is pretty new: Its only been used for about 180 years. Although its become the most spoken word on the planet, its kind of a…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (503+ words) Why do we say "OK? Of all the words in the English language, the word "OK" is pretty new: Its only been used for about 180 years. Although its become the most spoken word on the planet, its kind of a…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (523+ words) Why do we say "OK? Of all the words in the English language, the word "OK" is pretty new: Its only been used for about 180 years. Although its become the most spoken word on the planet, its kind of a…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (503+ words) Why do we say "OK? Of all the words in the English language, the word "OK" is pretty new: Its only been used for about 180 years. Although its become the most spoken word on the planet, its kind of a…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (595+ words) Why do we say "OK? Of all the words in the English language, the word "OK" is pretty new: Its only been used for about 180 years. Although its become the most spoken word on the planet, its kind of a…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (503+ words) Why do we say "OK? Of all the words in the English language, the word "OK" is pretty new: Its only been used for about 180 years. Although its become the most spoken word on the planet, its kind of a…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (260+ words) A journey into the formal foundations of natural language began as Professor Ryan Nefdt delivered his inaugural lecture on 20 May. The University of Cape Town's (UCT) Mafeje Room at the Bremner Building was filled to capacity as family, friends, students,…...