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Decoding a Car’s VIN Can Tell You Where It Was Made—and More
You can also look at the first two characters of the VIN. These are called a World Manufacturer Identifier, and they show where a car’s final assembly took place. These are World Manufacturer Identifiers for vehicles sold in the U.S.: 1, 4, 5, 7F through 7Z, and 70: U.S.2: Canada3: Mexico9A through 9E and 93 through 99: BrazilAA through AH:…
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‘Mewing,’ ‘Sigma,’ and Other Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang You Might Need Help Decoding
It’s been a minute since Lifehacker looked at the slang of Generation Z—long enough that Generation Alpha has had time to develop and spread some of its own special buzzwords and jargon. Below is an alphabetized collection of slang taken from both Gen Z and Gen A, in case someone younger than you says something you don’t understand. As with…
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Decoding OpenAI’s o1 family of large language models – Computerworld
Further, Fan said that OpenAI must have figured out the inference scaling law a long time ago, which academia is just recently discovering. However, he did point out that productionizing o1 is much harder than nailing the academic benchmarks and raised several questions. “For reasoning problems in the wild, how (the model) to decide when to stop searching? What’s the…
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‘Mewing,’ ‘Sigma,’ and Other Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang You Might Need Help Decoding
It’s been a minute since Lifehacker looked at the slang of Generation Z—long enough that Generation Alpha has had time to develop and spread some of its own special buzzwords and jargon. Below is an alphabetized collection of slang taken from both Gen Z and Gen A, in case someone younger than you says something you don’t understand. As with…
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