Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterJul 29, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. There are about 26 consensus All-Americans per season. Twenty-four different players have won a Heisman since 2000. The one thing guaranteed about college football is that no one stays too long, and there are always new…
So-called “unlearning” techniques are used to make a generative AI model forget specific and undesirable info it picked up from training data, like sensitive private data or copyrighted material. But current unlearning techniques are a double-edged sword: They could make a model like OpenAI’s GPT-4o or Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B much less capable of answering…
I spent a lot of my first trip around the world partying. I was twenty-five and ready to cut loose after a quarter century of living a fairly sheltered, middle-class life. In my mind, a lot of backpacking was about meeting fellow travelers, partying, and saying yes to anything that came your way. And that…
Congressional Republicans are asking FBI Director Christopher Wray to “correct” his testimony that there was “some question” about whether Donald Trump’s ear was struck by a bullet or shrapnel. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Wray on Friday that accused him of “creating confusion” in…
I’ll admit it, I’m a beach bum. One of my best packing hacks is to bring stylish staples that do double duty. Case in point: I always keep a lightweight long-sleeve shirt on hand. It’s a chic beach cover-up that transitions into a smart blouse when I hit the town. Amazon’s Ekouaer Beach Cover-Up Shirt…
After a busy full day of competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics, big names close out the first weekend. Editor’s Picks 2 Related Simone Biles, Sunisa Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera made their Paris debuts on the U.S. gymnastics team in qualifications Sunday. Team USA men’s basketball faced three-time NBA MVP Nikola…
Matthew Patrick’s most unique achievement isn’t that he grew his YouTube account into a multi-channel media business with over 40 million subscribers. It’s that he managed to sell his company and successfully transition away from a career that’s so hard, both emotionally and logistically, to leave. In an emotional video posted earlier this year, Patrick…
1.4K Dhigurah island is probably the most beautiful island you’ve never heard of in the Maldives. It’s a local island without the fancy overwater resorts that are famous in the Maldives, but instead it has a long and wonderful white sand beach. If you’re wanting to see the Maldives on a budget, this is one…
When you hear someone casually drop the word “fuck,” what’s your reaction? Offended? Surprised? Confused? In any case, I’m fairly certain hearing someone curse out of nowhere provokes some kind of immediate reaction. We have a taboo in this culture against profanity and when someone breaks that taboo, it gets your attention. But why is…
If you’re a frequent Disney-goer, like me, you absolutely need a belt bag. In a bout of midlife-crisis nostalgia some years back, I returned to Walt Disney World for my 40th birthday for the first time in two decades, and I’ve found myself there multiple times a year, ever since. I am no novice. And…
