Meet The Tree That Shoots Its Seeds At 150 MPH — A Biologist Explains

This rainforest tree solved one of evolution’s hardest problems. Here’s how it evolved to use tension and geometry to fire ...
IEEE

Transferring Knowledge from Observed to Unknown: A Data-Driven Lane Change Trajectory Prediction Strategy Based on the Concept of Few-Shot Learning

Abstract: Existing data-driven lane change trajectory prediction methods lack the capability to achieve broad consistency in the complex and variable real-world traffic scenarios due to their reliance ...
GitHub

HtmlRAG: HTML is Better Than Plain Text for Modeling Retrieval Results in RAG Systems

We propose HtmlRAG, which uses HTML instead of plain text as the format of external knowledge in RAG systems. To tackle the long context brought by HTML, we propose Lossless HTML Cleaning and Two-Step ...
PC Gamer

One of the internet's top experts on Skyrim minutiae hosted a $10,000 charity competition to guess how many trees there are in the Bethesda classic

Fewer than I thought, but more than one person could feasibly count by hand. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. AnyAustin closed the ...
IEEE

Source Data Free Abnormal Sound Detection of Industrial Equipment Based on Teacher-student Structure

Abstract: In industrial equipment maintenance, acoustic monitoring offers an effective non-contact approach for anomaly detection. However, deep learning-based methods typically require large ...
USA Today

You won't believe how many Christmas trees these folks have. Fir real

From the sweet aroma of baked cookies to the festive family gatherings, Shawn Hundertmark’s mom always put the merry in Christmas. When she died 20 years ago, Hundertmark dedicated his yearly ...