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Institution behind the excess-vocabulary study estimating LLM involvement in 2024 biomedical abstracts.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
A perforated ivory rod from Hohle Fels was catalogued as a prestige object until its discoverer noticed spiral grooves inside each hole, and a replication with cattail fiber suggests it made rope that never survived.
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Gerald Mayr's team named two genera new to science, including the eagle Mioaetus pforzenensis, at a site where only one bone find in 40 is a bird. The additions bring the fish-eating birds level with the fish-eating mammals.
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The method is a brute search over combinations of equipment already sitting in the lab rather than anything like a chatbot, which moves the scarce human skill from wiring the setup to writing down exactly what the setup should maximise.
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In a Tübingen listening study, pleasantness tracked four measurable acoustic properties of the recording. Identification skill did not come into it, which turns soundscape choice into a specification problem.
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A statistical study of tool shapes puts Neanderthals in the Saudi desert about 55,000 years ago. The inference is careful, the climate story is tidy, and the skeletal evidence is nonexistent.
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Florida State linguists traced "delve" to the human-feedback stage, not the training corpus or the architecture. The GitHub tools built to hide it are still shipping word lists.
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