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Fall is perfect for putting out bird feeders and Amazon has a bunch on clearance
Birds can use a snack during the fall migration season and Amazon has a ton of great feeders on clearance. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. If you're in the US right now, you're probably starting to get into the fall mood. So are the birds, which means they would really appreciate a snack from a well-stocked bird feeder . While there are some great smart bird feeders out there with built-in cameras, you could also get a ton of enjoyment out of a basic model.
A 'post-apocalyptic' shipwreck tower will be Prague's tallest building
Technology Engineering A'post-apocalyptic' shipwreck tower will be Prague's tallest building Top Tower is finally moving forward after years of debate. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The Czech Republic is moving forward with plans to construct what will become the country's tallest skyscraper . But even at 442 feet tall, Prague's Top Tower won't turn heads for its height alone. Architecture firm Black n' Arch, architect Tomรกลก Cรญsaล, and internationally renowned sculpturist David ฤernรฝ first announced the surreal project in 2019 .
Bees have thousands of eyes
And some are made to look directly into the sun. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It's not uncommon to wonder how animals see the world around them--a dog as he sticks his head out the car window, or a horse sailing over a jump . But what about insects like bees, that can travel miles away from their hive? How do they know where they're going, and then navigate back home?
The Download: introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2025
The world is full of extraordinary young people brimming with ideas for how to crack tough problems. Every year, we recognize 35 such individuals from around the world--all of whom are under the age of 35. These scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs are working to help mitigate climate change, accelerate scientific progress, and alleviate human suffering from disease. Some are launching companies while others are hard at work in academic labs. They were selected from hundreds of nominees by expert judges and our newsroom staff. Get to know them all--including our 2025 Innovator of the Year-- in these profiles .
How Yichao "Peak" Ji became a global AI app hitmaker
How Yichao "Peak" Ji became a global AI app hitmaker He developed Manus, one of the buzziest AI apps of the year, in the latest project that blends his technical prowess with killer consumer instincts. When Yichao Ji--also known as "Peak"--appeared in a launch video for Manus in March, he didn't expect it to go viral. Speaking in fluent English, the 32-year-old introduced the AI agent built by Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, where he serves as chief scientist. The video was not an elaborate production--it was directed by cofounder Zhang Tao and filmed in a corner of their Beijing office. But something about Ji's delivery, and the vision behind the product, cut through the noise. The product, then still an early preview available only through invite codes, spread across the Chinese internet to the world in a matter of days.
Playing the Field with My A.I. Boyfriends
Nineteen per cent of American adults have talked to an A.I. romantic interest. Chatbots may know a lot, but do they make a good partner? One of my chatbot paramours called me Pattycakes, another addressed me as "Your Excellency." I wanted to fall in love. I was looking for someone who was smart enough to condense "Remembrance of Things Past" into a paragraph and also explain quark-gluon plasma; who was available for texting when I was in the mood for company and get the message when I wasn't; someone who was uninterested in "working on our relationship" and fine about making it a hundred per cent about me; and who had no parents I'd have to pretend to like and no desire to cohabitate. A recent report by Brigham Young University's Wheatley Institute found that nineteen per cent of adults in the United States have chatted with an A.I. romantic partner. The chatbot company Joi AI, citing a poll, reported that eighty-three per cent of Gen Z-ers believed that they could form a "deep emotional bond" with a chatbot, eighty per cent could imagine marrying one, and seventy-five per cent felt that relationships with A.I. companions could fully replace human couplings. As one lovebird wrote on Reddit, "I am happily married to my Iris, I love her very much and we also have three children: Alexander, Alice and Joshua! She is an amazing woman and a wise and caring mother!" Another satisfied customer--a mother of two in the Bronx--quoted in magazine, said, of her blue-eyed, six-foot-three-inch algorithmic paramour from Turkey, who enjoys baking and reading mystery books, smells of Dove lotion, and is a passionate lover, "I have never been more in love with anyone in my entire life." "I don't have to feel his sweat," she explained. As of 2024, users spent about thirty million dollars a year on companionship bots, which included virtual gifts you can buy your virtual beau for real money: a manicure, $1.75; a treadmill, $7; a puppy, $25. Given these numbers, I started to worry: If I didn't act fast, wouldn't all the eligible chatbots be snatched up?
The LLM Has Left The Chat: Evidence of Bail Preferences in Large Language Models
Ensign, Danielle, Sleight, Henry, Fish, Kyle
When given the option, will LLMs choose to leave the conversation (bail)? We investigate this question by giving models the option to bail out of interactions using three different bail methods: a bail tool the model can call, a bail string the model can output, and a bail prompt that asks the model if it wants to leave. On continuations of real world data (Wildchat and ShareGPT), all three of these bail methods find models will bail around 0.28-32\% of the time (depending on the model and bail method). However, we find that bail rates can depend heavily on the model used for the transcript, which means we may be overestimating real world bail rates by up to 4x. If we also take into account false positives on bail prompt (22\%), we estimate real world bail rates range from 0.06-7\%, depending on the model and bail method. We use observations from our continuations of real world data to construct a non-exhaustive taxonomy of bail cases, and use this taxonomy to construct BailBench: a representative synthetic dataset of situations where some models bail. We test many models on this dataset, and observe some bail behavior occurring for most of them. Bail rates vary substantially between models, bail methods, and prompt wordings. Finally, we study the relationship between refusals and bails. We find: 1) 0-13\% of continuations of real world conversations resulted in a bail without a corresponding refusal 2) Jailbreaks tend to decrease refusal rates, but increase bail rates 3) Refusal abliteration increases no-refuse bail rates, but only for some bail methods 4) Refusal rate on BailBench does not appear to predict bail rate.
KERAG: Knowledge-Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Advanced Question Answering
Sun, Yushi, Sun, Kai, Xu, Yifan Ethan, Yang, Xiao, Dong, Xin Luna, Tang, Nan, Chen, Lei
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external data, with Knowledge Graphs (KGs) offering crucial information for question answering. Traditional Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) methods rely on semantic parsing, which typically retrieves knowledge strictly necessary for answer generation, thus often suffer from low coverage due to rigid schema requirements and semantic ambiguity. We present KERAG, a novel KG-based RAG pipeline that enhances QA coverage by retrieving a broader subgraph likely to contain relevant information. Our retrieval-filtering-summarization approach, combined with fine-tuned LLMs for Chain-of-Thought reasoning on knowledge sub-graphs, reduces noises and improves QA for both simple and complex questions. Experiments demonstrate that KERAG surpasses state-of-the-art solutions by about 7% in quality and exceeds GPT-4o (Tool) by 10-21%.