Tag: Survival

After a decade of rapid growth in artificial intelligence (AI) model complexity and compute, 2023 marks a shift in focus to efficiency and the broad application of generative AI (GenAI). As a result, a new crop of models with less than 15 billion parameters, referred to as nimble AI, can closely mat...

People enjoying wine feels like a conspiracy. When I’m at another obligatory work gathering, drinking wine is almost unavoidable. The boss orders wine for the whole team. I find myself sipping on it, not because I prefer it over my sweet, fruity cocktails, but because he’s footing the...

I’m eight years old, at baseball semi-finals with my family. It’s round robin but I don’t really know what that means. Aunties, uncles, cousins, grandparents, siblings, Mum. It’s not Dad’s weekend with us. My Auntie is entering a fundraiser game. You have to pick a n...

Al, an old alarm clock who always had a frown on his face, used to live in a quiet, empty town called Gadget-Ville. His best days were long ago when his steady ringing filled the houses and woke people from their worst fears. But things changed when a handsome new guy named Max showed up w...

Let’s change it, shall we? This hierarchical power structures and rules -which is simply a mimicry of how religions and reigns work- are very dominant in the business world. And as the wealthy get wealthier, they earn such a strong influence on governments which eventually erodes our democr...

My discovery of America was a cultural shock, as I described in the previous chapters. Like a large number of foreigners and French people, I rejected American culture, always finding something to complain about. As soon as something didn’t fit with what I was used to in France and more partic...

Toronto scares the hell out of me. No wonder I have hermit tendencies; I feel like I’m taking my life into my hands every time I go out the door into ‘The Big Smoke’. It’s like a freaking zoo out there! I swear they should make a board game based on living in Toronto. I kn...

Example: Of the 65 freshwater ponds sampled this spring at St. Marks, salamanders showed up at 29 of them. “That’s a pretty decent number,” says Chloë Dubben, a biological technician who recently left the Service. “It’s very exciting that, at one of those ponds,...

Today, I present to you a grand three-course meal, fit for both the mind and the palate. Prepare yourselves for a starter full of delightful visualization, a main course brimming with essential information, and a dessert garnished with a simple solution and a sprinkle of humor for that perfect taste...

Survivalists often talk about the things they need to survive a calamity. The list ranges from person to person but there are some items that are irrefutably necessary under any circumstances. What are they and why are they so important? Let's take a look. Water Without water, it's all...

Ever thought about how trudging through the untamed wilderness and navigating the dating world are eerily similar? No? Well, let me take you on a trek through this analogy. As someone who’s hiked a fair share of treacherous trails and survived the equally perilous world of dating, I’ve g...

Ifyou've ever lived in survival mode, you know what it's like to try to juggle competing interests, to wonder whether you have enough food to last until payday, whether you can afford utility bills, or even make your rent or monthly mortgage payments. As one report shows, more than half...

The doctors stressed the substantial risks both to her health and fertility if she continued the pregnancy. Along with these comments, the doctors revealed the baby would have “virtually no chance” of survival. Expressing her anguish, Cox declared her reluctance to witness her child suff...

Ifyou've ever lived in survival mode, you know what it's like to try to juggle competing interests, to wonder whether you have enough food to last until payday, whether you can afford utility bills, or even make your rent or monthly mortgage payments. As one report shows, more than half...

Survival analysis is a branch of statistics focused on analyzing the expected duration of time until one event occurs. It has been largely used in the healthcare sector, with the main use case being to understand the probability of one’s survival in medical trials. This approach can al...

The question posed in the title of this essay is deeply troubling to anyone sympathetic to the Jewish people, and should also concern any disinterested lover of humanity. As someone put it many years ago, when the beast of “antisemitism” seemed to be in deep hibernation, if Judaism could...

I suspect that the reason we like certain music is that the abstract patterns in the music match well with the mental models our species have found to be helpful in survival that are passed down to us from generation to generation. The mental models are shaped by genetic inheritance and our experien...