abilities

Windows Vex Bats' Echolocating Abilities

Published 2017-09-08 vex echolocating abilities

Smooth vertical surfaces like windows reflect sound waves away from bats—meaning bats can't "see" windows and similar obstacles with echolocation. Christopher I…

Brittle Stars Can "See" without Eyes

Published 2020-01-10 brittle abilities arms

The starfish relatives can recognize patterns using photoreceptors on their arms—and their color-changing abilities could have something to do with it. Christop…

What You Need to Know about GPT-4

Published 2023-04-14 abilities adchoices gpt

The AI GPT-4 has emergent abilities—but that’s not why it’s scary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should We Care About AI's Emergent Abilities?

Published 2023-07-17 abilities adchoices fm

Here’s how large language models, or LLMs, actually work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transferable Skills

Published 2016-12-30 transferable abilities episode

Unrelated abilities and techniques that prove surprisingly useful in indie app development.

Suddenly EDM

Published 2016-08-12 abilities stranger polygon

The Rocket hosts talk about Macbook Pro rumors and some of the exaggerations about the new MBP’s abilities. Then they talk about No Man’s Sky, and the exaggerat…