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40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
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A study by German scientists at Hamburg University investigated the role of naps in facilitating moments of insight. Using EEG monitoring, they discovered that deeper N2 phase sleep correlated with a higher likelihood of "eureka" moments, outperforming the commonly emphasized light N1 phase.
Brex revamped its procurement process to adopt AI tools quickly, addressing the issue of lengthy evaluation cycles. The company created new data processing agreements, empowered employees to select tools, and embraced flexibility, acknowledging inevitable trial and error.
The Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission, alleging Google’s AI Overviews misuse web content, harming publishers by causing traffic and revenue loss. Google argues the AI feature enhances search experiences and data claims are incomplete.
Researchers are embedding hidden prompts in preprint papers on arXiv to influence AI tools to give positive reviews. Academics from 14 institutions, including Waseda University and Columbia University, have employed this controversial tactic, often justified as countering lazy AI-based peer reviews.
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Repository: ImprovedTube (A powerful but lightweight extension, to enrich your video experience & enable your content selection.)
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An Easy-to-use, Scalable and High-performance RLHF Framework based on Ray (PPO & GRPO & REINFORCE++ & vLLM & Ray & Dynamic Sampling & Async Agentic RL)
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Open-source framework for conversational voice AI agents.
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Prompts for our Grok chat assistant and the `@grok` bot on X.
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Fine-tune LLMs for free with 100+ Notebooks on Google Colab, Kaggle, and more.
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Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo
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