Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes(nature.com)
99 points by theanonymousone | 20 comments
Open-access Nature research article describing a method to retrofit existing language models to operate directly over bytes instead of tokens.
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'Epigenetic' editing banishes hepatitis B virus(nature.com)
12 points by sbulaev | 0 comments
Nature news article on an epigenetic editing technique that uses chemical tags to silence hepatitis B viral DNA hidden in the host genome.
Bird brains (2023)(dhanishsemar.com)
331 points by DiffTheEnder | 208 comments
Personal blog essay on bird intelligence, prompted by a video of New Zealand kea parrots moving traffic cones near a tunnel by Milford Sound.
New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden(nature.com)
401 points by ascorbic | 280 comments
Nature news article about a new antibiotic molecule, found in soil from a technician's garden, that kills drug-resistant bacteria via a novel mechanism.
AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)
555 points by kgwgk | 200 comments
Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.
The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury(nature.com)
336 points by gmays | 218 comments
Nature news article reporting that after a heart attack, immune cells stimulate sleep neurons in the brain, inducing deep restorative sleep that aids healing.
Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops(nature.com)
535 points by rbanffy | 302 comments
A Nature technology feature on why researchers are running small, openly available AI models locally on laptops, with guidance on getting started.
Japan's push to make all research open access(nature.com)
612 points by sohkamyung | 92 comments
Nature news article on Japan allocating 10 billion yen to institutional repositories to make the nation's publicly funded research free to read.
Polio is on the brink of eradication(nature.com)
424 points by sohkamyung | 303 comments
Nature news feature on how the global campaign to eradicate polio may soon succeed and the challenge of keeping the disease from returning.
Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL(nature.com)
721 points by anjneymidha | 250 comments
Open-access Nature paper from DeepMind describing AlphaDev, which used deep reinforcement learning to discover faster sorting algorithms.