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 ...
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Chewed Plants Help Detect Viruses in Wild Mountain Gorillas and Monkeys

Chewed plants prove a simple, noninvasive way to test primates for viruses Infectious diseases introduced by humans pose one of the greatest threats to survival of great apes in the wild Simple ...
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Covariance of Sample Moments for Simple Random Sampling with Replacement of a Finite Population

Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. 99A, No. 2 (Dec., 1999), pp. 171-177 (7 pages) In this paper we derive the exact covariance of some sample moments for 'simple random sampling ...
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Deep learning method enables efficient Boltzmann distribution sampling across a continuous temperature range

A research team has developed a novel direct sampling method based on deep generative models. Their method enables efficient sampling of the Boltzmann distribution across a continuous temperature ...
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Endangered-Mouse Study Shares No-Contact Sampling Method

A salt marsh harvest mouse walks across the bulrush at Grizzly Island Wildlife Area in San Francisco. (Cody Aylward/UC Davis) From species of marmots to moles, shrews and mice, many of the world’s ...