40,000-year-old Stone Age symbols may have paved the way for writing, long before Mesopotamia

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

Why is AI so bad at reading PDFs?

You just had to get lucky and hope that the document ID that you were looking at contains what you’re looking for,” said Igel ...
Scientific American

Poetry was humanity’s first language technology. AI is the next

Sasha Stiles turned GPT-2 experiments into a self-writing poem at a Museum of Modern Art installation—and a new way to think about text-generating AI optimization ...
IEEE

A Scalable and Write-Optimized Disaggregated B+-Tree With Adaptive Cache Assistance

Abstract: Disaggregated memory (DM) architecture separates CPU and DRAM into computing/memory resource pools and interconnects them with high-speed networks. Storage systems on DM locate data by ...

Archived tree cores reveal why boreal forests are getting starved for nitrogen

Despite decades of industrial deposition, nitrogen availability in the boreal forest is steadily declining. In a new study published in Nature, researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural ...