Why imperfection could be key to Turing patterns in nature

In essence, it’s a type of symmetry breaking. Any two processes that act as activator and inhibitor will produce periodic ...

Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative

The method, called Verbalized Sampling (VS), helps models like GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini produce more diverse and human-like outputs—without retraining or access to internal parameters. It is ...
IEEE

A Sentence-to-Sentence Clustering Procedure for Pattern Analysis

Abstract: Cluster analysis for patterns represented by sentences is investigated. The similarity between patterns is expressed in terms of the distance between their corresponding sentences. A ...
Hackaday

Mesmerizing Patterns From Simple Rules

Nature is known for its intense beauty from its patterns and bright colors; however, this requires going outside. Who has time for that insanity!?!? [Bleuje] provides the perfect solution with his ...
Canadian Living

Basic crocheted socks

Hand-knitted socks are all the rage, but did you know you can crochet them, too? Find out how with this basic pattern for crocheted socks. For S: 5 single crochet = 1" (2.5 cm) with size H-8 (5 mm) ...
Inc

With 1 Simple Sentence, McDonald’s Just Taught a Key Lesson in Leadership

Tariq Hassan, chief marketing and customer experience officer for McDonald’s. Photos: Getty Images This is a story about planning, remembering, and the marketing at McDonald’s. It starts with the ...
IEEE

Object Region Mining with Adversarial Erasing: A Simple Classification to Semantic Segmentation Approach

Abstract: We investigate a principle way to progressively mine discriminative object regions using classification networks to address the weakly-supervised semantic segmentation problems.