AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by ...
Virginia Connection Newspapers

Money Does Grow On Trees

Virginia’s Department of Forestry strives to see many more native trees planted in the Commonwealth. For the second year in a row, they are willing to give money away to make that happen. DOF has $800 ...

MIT’s new ‘recursive’ framework lets LLMs process 10 million tokens without context rot

While standard models suffer from context rot as data grows, MIT’s new Recursive Language Model (RLM) framework treats ...
Scientific American

Mystery tower fossils may come from a newly discovered kind of life

Their trunklike fossils were discovered in 1843. Yet despite more than a century of speculation, scientists have struggled to answer the most basic question about Earth’s original terrestrial giants: ...
InfoQ

MIT's Recursive Language Models Improve Performance on Long-Context Tasks

Researchers at MIT's CSAIL published a design for Recursive Language Models (RLM), a technique for improving LLM performance on long-context tasks. RLMs use a programming environment to recursively ...

How Gregor Mendel’s pea plant experiments created modern genetics

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...