I Tried Making my Own (Bad) LLM Benchmark to Cheat in Escape Rooms

I Tried Making my Own (Bad) LLM Benchmark to Cheat in Escape Rooms
Recently, DeepSeek announced their latest model, R1, and article after article came out praising its performance relative to cost, and ...
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The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games

The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games
Despite all this, The Sims is worth a look It’s telling that in a market with too many options, I ...
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Why People Act So Weirdly at Airports

Why People Act So Weirdly at Airports
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Many of us have witnessed unusual and even ...
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What a return to supersonic flight could mean for climate change

What a return to supersonic flight could mean for climate change
Last week, Boom Supersonic completed its first supersonic test flight of the XB-1 test aircraft. I watched the broadcast live, ...
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Civilization VII is getting a Quest VR port this spring

Civilization VII is getting a Quest VR port this spring
The Civilization franchise is getting the VR treatment with Sid Meier’s Civilization VII – VR on Meta Quest headsets this ...
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Fancii Abigail Review: The Best Travel Makeup Mirror

Fancii Abigail Review: The Best Travel Makeup Mirror
I think it’s a universal law that your makeup looks best if you apply it while sitting on the floor. ...
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Afraid to Cut Anything From the Military Budget, Elon Is Now Sending a DOGE Boy to Make Cuts at Veterans Affairs

Afraid to Cut Anything From the Military Budget, Elon Is Now Sending a DOGE Boy to Make Cuts at Veterans Affairs
Image by SDI Productions / Getty Images Amid his quest to trim $2 trillion from the federal budget, Elon Musk ...
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The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army

The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army
The establishment of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) relied on a recruitment campaign carried out, in part, ...
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OpenAI’s o3-mini now lets you see the AI’s thought process

OpenAI’s o3-mini now lets you see the AI’s thought process
ZDNET OpenAI released its o3-mini model exactly one week ago, offering both free and paid users a more accurate, faster, and cheaper ...
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Startups Making Egg Substitutes Poised To Poach New Customers

Startups Making Egg Substitutes Poised To Poach New Customers
Egg lovers have had good reason to gripe about price spikes and shortages lately. One group that’s not complaining, however, ...
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