There are all kinds of reasons why you might want to extract text out of images. Maybe you’ve taken photos of restaurant bills and you want to make a record of what you’ve eaten; or perhaps you’ve got a bunch of screenshots that you need to get product names out of; or you could have […]
This means that the total computing power required for attention grows quadratically with the total number of tokens. Suppose a 10-token prompt requires 414,720 attention operations. Then: Processing a 100-token prompt will require 45.6 million attention operations. Processing a 1,000-token prompt will require 4.6 billion attention operations. Processing a 10,000-token prompt will require 460 billion […]
Travel is stressful enough for most of us, but not being able to text while you’re on the road is a true nightmare. On an Apple iPhone, you see the dreaded words “not delivered” with an exclamation mark in a red circle whenever a message can’t get through. It’s a worse feeling than losing your […]
The details surrounding the emergency spending bill are expected to be delayed and may “slip by a day” as the deadline to avoid a government shutdown looms. Lawmarkers were expected to share the text of the emergency spending bill to avoid a government shutdown and address disaster relief on Sunday, but Fox News is told […]
Authorities are investigating racist text messages sent to black Americans across the country telling them to report to a plantation “to pick cotton”. Black Americans, including school and college students, were among the recipients in states including Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania. “The FBI is aware of the offensive and racist text […]
Readers of those other sites may not care much about font size and column widths. “40-character line lengths? In 18-point Comic Sans? I love it!” they say. But not you, because you are an Ars reader. And Ars readers are discerning. They have feelings about concepts like “information density.” And we want those feelings to […]
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Chemical markers attached to pre-fabricated units of DNA can easily encode data. Credit: Nobeastsofierce/SPL An epigenetic upgrade allows DNA to store information as a binary code — the strings of 0s and 1s used by standard […]
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For a molecule of RNA, the world is a dangerous place. Unlike DNA, which can persist for millions of years in its remarkably stable, double-stranded form, RNA isn’t built to last—not even within the cell that made it. Unless it’s protectively tethered to a larger […]
