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Twilight of the Age of Steam, Part 2: Petroleum and After

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The human use of petroleum is ancient, and may (for all we know) date well into pre-history. In the form found most often in nature, as thick pools of bituminous tar, this sticky, potentially flammable substance found use as a caulk,… In the mid-nineteenth century, a new industry emerged, based on the refining of petroleum.

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3D images of over 13,000 museum specimens now free to everyone

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The completion of the openVertebrate (oVert) project is a significant milestone for natural history museums, as well as researchers, educators, students, and the public. The digital library is the first to offer free access to incredibly detailed – and, frankly, beautiful – 3D images of over 13,000 vertebrates.

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Brief History of LLMs

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The early days of natural language processing saw researchers experiment with many different approaches, including conceptual ontologies and rule-based systems. entitled “Large language models: their history, capabilities, and limitations,” follows the history of LLMs from that first intersection to their current state.

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Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)

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Set of spectacular engravings of insects and their floral abodes — one of the first natural histories of Suriname.

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Complete roadmap of LlamaIndex to Creating Personalized Q&A Chatbots

Data Science Dojo

LLMs like GPT-4 are pre-trained on massive public datasets, allowing for incredible natural language processing capabilities out of the box. Once your data is indexed, it provides a number of ways to interact with it, including: Natural language querying: You can ask LlamaIndex questions about your data in plain English.

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How to Build a Machine Learning Model to Distinguish If It’s Human or ChatGPT?

Analytics Vidhya

‘Can you tell me about the history of the Kohinoor (Koh-i-Noor) Diamond?’ With the advances in natural […] The post How to Build a Machine Learning Model to Distinguish If It’s Human or ChatGPT? Introduction Have you ever wondered how to tell if a text was written by a human or an AI?

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An Introduction to Stemming in Natural Language Processing

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We shall provide an overview of stemming and trace its history. The post An Introduction to Stemming in Natural Language Processing appeared first on Analytics Vidhya. This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Finally, we will discuss several kinds of stemmers and various applications […].