Plus dogs hunting spotted lanternflies and other weird things we learned this week. The post We don’t actually know who pulled the greatest con in mushroom history appeared first on Popular Science .
The baby vicuna - the smallest member of the camel family - is settling in well at the Highland site.
"I wanted to see if I could optimize the dequantization bottleneck during 4-bit LLM inference. By writing a custom kernel in Triton to optimize memory access patterns, I managed to get up to a 1. 41x speedup over the standard bitsandbytes implementation.
When Hurricanes Helene and Milton struck in 2024, the storms not only left behind a trail of destruction but also exposed an often-overlooked challenge for local emergency responders: how hurricanes can disrupt the food system and make it harder for residents to access it when they need it most.
Jony Ive and Sam Altman made a big promise when they teased the launch of a completely new concept in AI hardware more than a year ago. The most recent report suggests that OpenAI may technically be delivering on this promise, but could end up at least partly competing with an upcoming AirPods m...
A dragon consultant weighs in on Westeros physics. The post Could Sheepstealer and other ‘House of the Dragon’ dragons actually fly? appeared first on Popular Science .