Induction stoves use electromagnetism to heat food more efficiently than any other kind of stovetop. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Ask someone in the United States about "electric cooking" and they'll probably describe one of those awful coil stoves, the ones that take forever to heat up and then burn your dinner to a crisp the moment you take your eyes off it. This unfortunate association is perhaps one reason why induction cooking hasn't quite taken off in the U.S. the way it has elsewhere in the world--in Europe, for example, where induction stoves are commonplace. How do induction stoves differ from electric stoves?

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A few years ago I upgraded from gas to induction. This sentence might confuse you. Gas stoves have a reputation as being the best, mostly because of marketing, so you might think I'm only saying I "upgraded" to induction because of environmental conviction. And I'll admit using less energy motivated the switch (I like saving money) but efficiency alone is not why I'm saying that induction is better.

Co-hosts on'The Big Weekend Show' discuss Gov. Gavin Newsom's latest attempts to continue to expand benefits for illegal migrants in the state of California. California Gov. Gavin Newsom tossed out a slew of bills over the weekend, bucking several of his Democratic Party's more progressive initiatives on things like standards for transgender care, regulating gas stoves and providing additional benefits for noncitizens. Newsom, who has had to review more than 1,000 bills over the last few months ahead of Monday's legislative deadline, vetoed AB 2442, AB 2513 and SB 227. AB 2442, which would have expedited medical licenses for out-of-state applicants seeking to perform transgender surgical procedures, was declined by Newsom on Friday. NEWSOM'S DEEPFAKE ELECTION LAWS ARE ALREADY BEING CHALLENGED IN FEDERAL COURT Gov. Gavin Newsom addressed the press over a new state budget.

Informal reasoning ability is the ability to reason based on common sense, experience, and intuition.Humans use informal reasoning every day to extract the most influential elements for their decision-making from a large amount of life-like information.With the rapid development of language models, the realization of general artificial intelligence has emerged with hope. Given the outstanding informal reasoning ability of humans, how much informal reasoning ability language models have has not been well studied by scholars.In order to explore the gap between humans and language models in informal reasoning ability, this paper constructs a Detective Reasoning Benchmark, which is an assembly of 1,200 questions gathered from accessible online resources, aims at evaluating the model's informal reasoning ability in real-life context.Considering the improvement of the model's informal reasoning ability restricted by the lack of benchmark, we further propose a Self-Question Prompt Framework that mimics human thinking to enhance the model's informal reasoning ability.The goals of self-question are to find key elements, deeply investigate the connections between these elements, encourage the relationship between each element and the problem, and finally, require the model to reasonably answer the problem.The experimental results show that human performance greatly outperforms the SoTA Language Models in Detective Reasoning Benchmark.Besides, Self-Question is proven to be the most effective prompt engineering in improving GPT-4's informal reasoning ability, but it still does not even surpass the lowest score made by human participants.Upon acceptance of the paper, the source code for the benchmark will be made publicly accessible.

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'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host analyzes the internal video produced by Microsoft. Modern Xbox consoles will soon have a new default setting that regulates the video game systems' power usage to protect the environment. "Xbox is working to reduce our environmental impact to help us reach Microsoft's goal of being a carbon negative, water positive, and zero waste company by 2030 by rethinking how we design, build, distribute, and use our products," a press release from Microsoft's Xbox Wire said. Xbox said they are focused on carbon emissions "in the homes of our fans." According to the release, "We not only hold ourselves accountable to the carbon emissions in the production and distribution of our products, but to the emissions created with the use of our products in the homes of our fans as well."