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John Henry Turpin (18761962) was a sailor in the United States Navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was one of the first African-American chief petty officers in the U.S. Navy, becoming a chief gunner's mate on the cruiser Marblehead in 1917. He was transferred to the Fleet Reserve in 1919 and retired in 1925. He is also notable for surviving the catastrophic explosions of two U.S. Navy ships: USSMaine in 1898, and USSBennington in 1905.Photograph credit: unknown photographer; restored by Adam CuerdenRecently featured: Tocopilla railwayColias croceusMichael William BalfeArchiveMore featured pictures

January 12: Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania (1964)Comet McNaught1659 The fort at Allahabad was surrendered to the forces of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.1879 Anglo-Zulu War: Natal Native Contingent and British troops defeated Zulu forces in the Action at Sihayo's Kraal.1899 During a storm, the crew of Lynmouth Lifeboat Station transported their 10-ton lifeboat 15mi (24km) overland in order to rescue a damaged schooner.1967 Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.2007 Comet McNaught (pictured) reached perihelion, becoming the brightest comet in over 40years, with an apparent magnitude of 5.5.John Singer Sargent (b.1856)Laura Adams Armer (b.1874)Princess Patricia of Connaught (d.1974)More anniversaries: January 11January 12January 13ArchiveBy emailList of days of the yearAbout

Multi-hop queries have always given LLM agents a hard time with their solutions, necessitating multiple reasoning steps and information from different sources. They are crucial for analyzing a models comprehension, reasoning, and function-calling capabilities. At this time when new large models are booming every other day with claims of unparalleled capabilities, multi-hop tools realistically assess them by bestowing with a complex query, which the model needs to decompose into atomic parts and iteratively solve by invoking and utilizing appropriate tools. Furthermore, multi-hop tool evaluation has emerged as pivotal for advancing models toward generalized intelligence.Existing works in this field fall short of offering a reliable evaluation method. Methods proposed until now have relied on tool-driven data construction methods where queries are simulated for a given collection of tools. This shortfall points out the loophole in ensuring the interdependence of collected tools and assessing the multi-hop reasoning. Additionally, the absence of verifiable answers introduces model bias and evaluation errors. This article discusses the latest research that presents a reliable method to honestly assess the multi-hop capabilities of a large language model.Fudan University and ByteDance researchers presented ToolHop, a dataset designed explicitly for multi-hop tool evaluation with 995 rigorously designed user queries and 3,912 associated tools. Toolhop claims to solve all the aforementioned problems through diverse queries, locally executable tools, meaningful interdependencies, detailed feedback, and verifiable answers. The authors propose a novel query-driven data construction approach that could expand a single multi-hop query into a comprehensive multi-hop tool use test case.The proposed novel scheme comprises three key stages: tool creation, document refinement, and code generation.Tool Creation: A preliminary set of tool documents is created per the user-provided multi-hop query. The document is designed to keep it interdependent and relevant by resolving queries into atomic parts and individually handling each. This way, the document captures the essence of the query and structures itself to generate similar queries, ensuring modularity and cohesion.Document Refinement: The prepared tool document undergoes comprehensive filtering to support the evaluation of models in complex multi-hop scenarios. Here, new features like result filtering and customizable formats are introduced to expand functionality while maintaining originality. Parallelly, the number of parameters is increased, and their types are optimized.Code Generation: At this stage, locally executable functions are generated by the prepared tool. Through these functions, tools are externally invoked, enabling seamless multi-turn interactions between the model and tools.The research team implemented the approach with the queries drawn from the MoreHopQA dataset. Further, to ensure the evaluation with ToolHop, a rigorous five-dimensional analysis was done. ToolHop was then evaluated on fourteen LLMs from five families, including open and closed-sourced models. The evaluation method was so designed that answer correctness and minimized invocation errors were ensured. The authors observed that using tools increased the models performance by up to 12 % on average and by up to 23 % for GPT models. The best-performing model could achieve 49.04% answer correctness even after the increase. Also, despite using tools in response to multi-hop queries, models hallucinated around 10% of the time.Conclusion:This paper presents a comprehensive dataset for solving multi-hop queries using specially designed queries and tools. The main finding from the experiments was that while LLMs have significantly enhanced their ability to solve complex multi-shop queries with the use of tools, their multi-shop tool use capabilities still leave considerable room for improvement.Check out the Paper. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project. Also,dont forget to follow us onTwitter and join ourTelegram Channel andLinkedIn Group. Dont Forget to join our60k+ ML SubReddit. Adeeba Alam Ansari+ postsAdeeba Alam Ansari is currently pursuing her Dual Degree at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, earning a B.Tech in Industrial Engineering and an M.Tech in Financial Engineering. With a keen interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence, she is an avid reader and an inquisitive individual. Adeeba firmly believes in the power of technology to empower society and promote welfare through innovative solutions driven by empathy and a deep understanding of real-world challenges. [Recommended Read] Nebius AI Studio expands with vision models, new language models, embeddings and LoRA (Promoted)

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Starting off the year with the tech overload of the CES trade show has been a CNET tradition for decades, and CES 2025 was no different, as our editors stalked the floors and booths looking for the most innovative products, culminating in our official Best of CES awards.This year's CES tech extravaganza served scads ofAItools, tech for yoursmart home, slick newTVs, groundbreaking EVs, powerfullaptops, ingenioushealth techand a bounty of robots.Scroll down for some of the most interesting products at CES 2025. For more CES coverage, check out all of the delicious (and gross) food created by CES kitchen tech or read about the top seven biggest disappointments at CES. Lisa Eadicicco/CNET Nike x Hyperice Tech-filled "shoes" that soothe your aching feet with topical warmth and compression. Nike partnered with fitness recovery tech company Hyperice to make a tech-filled boot that can help sore feet recover. First deployed at last year's Paris Olympics, the Nike x Hyperice boot (no more official name) slips around your foot and applies heat and compression with buttons to adjust either. It's technically a "system of dual-air Normatec bladders bonded to warming elements," but there was only one word when our CNET Senior Reporter Lisa Eadicicco wore them on the Vegas show floor: relief. Nike's Prototype Shoes Squeezed and Heated Our Weary Feet at CES 2025. Here's What They Feel Like. CNET Kirin Electric Salt Spoon Soup too bland but lowering salt intake? Use this spoon to add flavor... through electric shocks. The pitfall of salt is that it tastes so good, but many of us are on low-sodium diets for our health. Rather than use an untasty alternative, why not turn to science? Japanese appliance company Kirin has a new experimental soup spoon. It's large and requires an awkward grip to engage the sensors, so you kinda look like a toddler using it. But pull it off and weak electrical current will simulate the taste of salt (varying per person), making it an imperfect but promising piece of dinnerware tech. We Tested an Electric Salt Spoon That Might Help You Stick to Your Low-Sodium Diet. James Martin/CNET LG G5 OLED TV Hey, good looking After seeing the picture quality, TV expert David Katzmaier singled this out as one of his favorite TVs of the show; he traditionally finds LG's OLED quality best-in-class (as do I for its monitors), and this year's is brighter with better contrast in ambient light. New LG OLED TVs Boost Brightness, Load Up on AI and Flirt With Going Wireless. Watch this: Best TVs of CES 2025: Among So Many New Screens, I Pick 4 05:35 Katie Collins/CNET Flint Paper Battery Sustainable, affordable, scalable power Singaporean startup Flint's technology hopes to solve the problems inherent in today's widely-used lithium-ion batteries with cellulose, a natural material that promotes ionic transfer between the positive and negative terminals of a battery. Which is another way of saying "electricity!". Cellulose, the stuff of leaves and other greenery, is flexible, compressible and possibly more important, biodegradable; the paper battery can be shrunk small enough embed in a smartwatch strap. It's one our picks for Best of CES 2025, too. These Paper Batteries -- Yes, Paper -- Are Coming For Your Tech. LG LG UltraGear 45GX990A Bend it, game it The flagship of LG's new GX9 line of UltraGear gaming monitors announced at the show is the most feature-laden of the group and more interesting than a lot of other offerings -- it's relative high resolution (5,120 x 2,160), has support for multiple picture sizes and refresh rate configurations (dual mode) and a curved-to-flat bendable screen (like theCorsair Xeneon). The Monitors of CES 2025 I Can't Wait to Try. Honda Honda 0 series EVs From prototype to production We first saw Honda's 0 ("zero") series last yearas a concept, and this year Honda has shared a closer-to-final version of the sleek line, which goes into production in 2026. It's now running Asimo OS, an operating system named after its Asimo robot of yesteryear.These EVs look like what you'd expect a future car to look like; still with some wedginess to their shapes, and referred to as "gorgeous" by automotive reporter Antuan Goodwin. Honda's Gorgeous 0 Series EVs Begin Production Next Year. Geoffrey Morrison/CNET Xgimi Ascend A roll-up projector screen on the cheap-ish It's not the LG OLED rollable screen of your dreams, but the Ascend may be more within your grasp. It's a retractable, ambient light-rejecting screen with built-in speakers and an ultra short-throw projector that looks like a piece of furniture when the screen withdraws. TV tech guru Geoffrey Morrison has been an ultrashort throw skeptic, but thinks this pair may solve some of the issues he's had with them. There's no pricing yet for the screen (the projector is $2,700), but it's bound to be less than models like the LG. Finally, A Roll-Up Projector Screen of Your Budget TV Dreams. Humetrix Humetrix AI app An upgrade that will voice-to-voice translate your symptoms and meds in the local tongue. Humetrix's AI-powered translation technology already assisted aid workers at last summer's Paris Olympic Games, but soon it'll expand to help individuals seeking medical aid in places where they don't speak the native tongue. Humetrix's advantage lies in its database of 4 million medications and info on 67,000 medical conditions; using GPS location, Humetrix will translate and speak symptoms, medications and other health info into the local language (of 25 available for now) -- just speak into your phone and the Humetrix app will explain in the right lingual and medical terminology. CES 2025: This AI Tool Lets Doctors and Traveling Patients Converse, Despite Language Barriers. AC Future AC Future AI-THu, AI-THt and AI-THd Tiny homes with big tech When you're ready to go small -- or don't have the budget to go big -- a tiny home can be an appealing alternative, especially when it's luxurious and packed with the latest smart tech. Our favorite of AC Future's designer mini residences is the AI-Thu, a modular build (as small as 400 square feet) packed with smart technology that helps control lighting, heating, cooling and appliances, plus solar panels, a water recycling system, atmospheric water generation and a lot more. Would You Pay $100,000 for a Mini Smart House? We Saw the Details at CES 2025. Antuan Goodwin/CNET Top of mind for every potential EV buyer is how inconvenient charging is -- but the Aptera Solar EV is wrapped in solar panels to recharge while you drive. Forget the cockroach-looking solar-powered cars of yesteryear, as this EV is a svelte three-wheeler with a swooped design that looks like it's about to take off into the sky (that achieves 70% less drag than EV's on the road today). Aptera expects to start producing the $40,000 vehicle later this year, so start planning if a constantly-recharging two-seater EV would fit your lifestyle. I Took a Ride in an EV That Doesn't Need to Plug In. See at Aptera Read more: We Love These Ground-Breaking EV Solutions at CES 2025 James Martin/CNET Dreame X50 Ultra A robot vacuum with tiny legs to get up ledges or cross door gaps. Roombas and other robot vacuums have been a big hit, but their little wheels can be defeated by the tiniest ledge or threshold between rooms. Enter Dreame's X50 Ultra, which has two short wheeled legs it can deploy to surmount very modest obstacles. No, it won't climb stairs, but we saw it conquer small ledges a couple inches high. This advancement comes at the steep price of $1,699 when it starts shipping in mid-February (preorder it for $390 off). Dreame's Robot Vacuum Won't Be Climbing Stairs, but We Saw It Summit a Small Ledge at CES 2025. Read more: Home Tech Gadgets at CES 2025 Impressed More Than Last Year Katie Collins/CNET Delta Concierge Delta's AI-powered app aims to reduce travel woes. Delta has a new feature for its phone app, and yes, it's AI-powered. Coming this year, Delta Concierge will help out with the most annoying parts of travel, like reminding you about passport renewal and visa requirements, suggesting what to pack for your destination's weather and general tips on getting around while you roam. Like other new AI-powered features, you'll be able to ask questions through text or speech in natural language and have the app respond. Anything that makes travel less painful -- and for free -- is a big help these days. Delta Concierge Will Anticipate Your Every Travel Need Like an AI Trip Butler. Josh Goldman/CNET Lenovo Legion Go S New with added Steam! In addition to a prototype version of the update to its current Legion Go, the company's additions to its Go line of handheld gaming consoles include a couple of brand-new Go S models -- one of which is the first to run SteamOS natively, in addition to the Windows version. Yes, that's right: A Steam Deck alternative! Both models have identical hardware, and the Go S has a more traditional design compared with its somewhat overcomplicated sibling. It's pretty cool, but makes us wonder: where's our Xbox handheld, Microsoft? Lenovo Legion Go S Offers a Welcome, Less Complicated Design Than the Original. Zoltux Zoltux Instant Solar Kit "Balcony solar" 800-watt panels that can be installed in as little as five minutes. Zoltux's $1,199 Instant Solar Kit has a lot of promises and a few roadblocks, but it's still an intriguing Kickstarter product. It's an 800-watt solar panel you can hang anywhere, using an inverter to feed back into your home energy setup. You'll theoretically need an interconnection agreement and permission to operate from your local energy company, and there are concerns about just plugging one into any old 120-volt home outlet, but it's promising to get a plug-and-play solar panel to start harvesting your own energy without expensive installation -- assuming Zoltux works out the kinks. CES 2025: Could Zoltux's Instant Solar Kit Be the Answer to Hassle-Free Solar Power?. Watch this: See Lenovo's Gesture-Controlled, Rollable ThinkBook Laptop in Action 01:45 Lenovo Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable A clever take on dual-screen laptops It's still only a concept, but Lenovo's new laptop extends the screen upward rather than folding it (or folding two screens together) like almost every dual-screen laptop we've seen. We've got no pricing or available for it yet -- it's a real product, not just a concept or prototype -- but being able to turn a laptop screen from 14 to 16.7 inches in a press of a button sounds like something I want. Wild Displays: Lenovo Shows Off Dual-Screen Yoga Book and Rollable ThinkBook. Read more: Check Out These Mind-Blowing Concept Products From CES 2025 James Martin/CNET Housing renters who want to mount their TV but are wary of drilling into their walls, your ship is about to come in. The Displace TV uses suction cups to stick to the wall and runs off batteries, meaning you can stick it pretty much anywhere in your home or office. It comes in varying sizes, starting with a $1,499 27-inch model and going up to a $4,999 55-inch TV, which will ship in spring 2025. I Suction-Cupped Displace TV's Wireless OLED to a Wall. I'll Never Be the Same. See at Displace Watch this: Displace TV's 55-Inch Television Hangs From a Wall Using Suction Cups 03:15 Read more: Nvidia Hands-Down Won AI at CES 2025, And Also The Show Itself. Here's Why That Matters Matt Elliott/CNET Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards Bigger on the inside? The new Nvidia cards just jumped more than a generation's worth in their power to render games and perform complex AI image generation, among a lot of other things. And they still fit into the box on your desk and cost about the same as before. The Wait Is Over: Nvidia's Next-Gen RTX 50-Series GPUs Are Here. Watch this: Everything Announced at Nvidia's CES Event in 12 Minutes 11:47 Celso Bulgatti/CNET Samsung stretchable screen concept Horror movies just gained a dimension You know that horror trope where something scary stretches the screen towards you and something awful enters the world? Samsung's turned the stretching screen of our nightmares into reality -- though it could be flowers as much as the undead pushing through. The screen bulges in the middle to produce a 3D effect; it's a little hard to see, according to editor Lisa Eadicicco, but it's there. Samsung's Wild Stretchable Display Concept Turns 2D Into 3D. Lisa Eadicicco/CNET Swippitt A fast way to fill up your phone's charge. And empty your wallet Swippitt's added a twist to the phone battery case: a box that swaps external batteries when you stick your phone in the slot. But it's not for everyone: At $450 for the hub and $120 for the Link case, the Sippitt is more expensive than aPlayStation 5and almost as pricey as an iPhone 16. I Watched a Printer-Size Gadget Add More Battery Life to a Phone in Seconds.

In BriefPosted:3:36 PM PST January 11, 2025Apple board opposes proposal to abolish DEI programsApples board of directors has come out in opposition to a proposal seeking to end the companys Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs.In a proxy filing, the company said the National Center for Public Policy Research (a conservative think tank) is submitting a proposal for Apple to consider abolishing its Inclusion & Diversity program, policies, department and goals.The think tanks proposal claims that DEI programs could make companies vulnerable to lawsuits, citing the recent Supreme Court ruling against race-based affirmative action in colleges and noting that other companies have eliminated or scaled back similar programs. (Most recently, Meta eliminated its DEI programs, and Amazon is reportedly pulling back as well.)Apple, however, said the proposal is unnecessary because the company already has a well-established compliance program that would presumably keep it out of legal trouble. The filing also criticizes the proposal because it inappropriately seeks to micromanage the Companys programs and policies.The company also said it strives to create a culture of belonging where everyone can do their best work.TopicsGovernment & Policy

Hello everyone! I want the particles to leave a mark on the texture, but for that, I need to somehow determine where the particles are located in UV space. Heres an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3TkzRwzptYI. Currently, I am using a sample texture for this, but the problem with this method is that the particles stop being dynamic; they just appear and disappear, so this method doesnt work for me. However, I learned that a similar method is used in TLOU2 and found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bbPeCwNxAU timecode: 13:00. From this video, I understood that I need to create a custom module that will allow me to convert particles into UV space using barycentric coordinates, but I dont know how to do this. I would be very grateful if someone could help me write such a module.