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Towards Test-Time Refusals via Concept Negation Peiran Dong 1 Song Guo 2 Junxiao Wang 3 Bingjie Wang
Here is a breakdown of the three steps involved: 1) Prototype: We utilize CLIP to encode a collection of text prompts obtained from social media platforms that express similar negative concepts. These encoded features are then aggregated into a comprehensive prototype feature, capturing the semantics of the negative concepts.
Study of Buddhist Monks Finds Meditation Alters Brain Activity
New research reinforces that it's a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus, learning, and well-being. If you've ever considered practicing meditation, you might believe you should relax, breathe, and empty your mind of distracting thoughts. Novices tend to think of meditation as the brain at rest, but a new international study concludes that this ancient practice is quite the opposite: Meditation is a state of heightened cerebral activity that profoundly alters brain dynamics. Researchers from the University of Montreal and Italy's National Research Council recruited 12 monks of the Thai Forest Tradition at Santacittฤrฤma, a Buddhist monastery outside Rome. In a laboratory in Chieti-Pescara, scientists analyzed the brain activity of these meditation practitioners using magnetoencephalography (MEG), technology capable of recording with great precision the brain's electrical signals.