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Adnan Abbas is an ex-AI researcher with a deep expertise in building SOTA VLMs. He is the co-founder of Unsiloed AI. Large language models have dramatically expanded the surface area of what machines ...

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Wind is the movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure. In fact, wind exists because the sun unevenly heats the surface of the Earth. As hot air rises, cooler air moves ...

Correspondence to Dr Barbara J Jefferis, Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London, London NW3 2PF, UK; b.jefferis{at}ucl.ac.uk Objectives To understand how ...

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