Miao Li

1 week ago | medium.com | Miao Li

Picking an AI assistant shouldn’t feel like rocket science. But with GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Llama, and dozens more popping up every month, it’s getting harder to know where to start. Here’s the thing: there’s no single “best” AI. What matters is finding the one that fits what you actually need to do. You know how restaurant reviews can be helpful but don’t always match your personal taste? AI benchmarks work the same way.

1 week ago | newsday.com | Miao Li

After nearly four decades of shaping young minds in the classroom and on the field, Scott Gerken is saying goodbye to East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School and will retire at the end of the year. Once a strict, by-the-book teacher, his colleagues and students said he grew into a school mainstay known for patience, humor and heart — one they said they won’t forget.

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Miao Li

Google just unveiled something fascinating at Google I/O 2025 on May 20th — Gemini Diffusion, an experimental research model that could completely transform how AI creates written content[1][2]. Let’s dive into what makes this approach so different and why it might matter for the future of how we interact with AI. If you’ve been following AI image generation trends, you’ve likely already encountered diffusion models without realizing it[3].

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Miao Li

Something remarkable is happening in artificial intelligence laboratories around the world. Different AI models — built with different architectures, trained on different data, designed for different purposes — are beginning to see the world in eerily similar ways. This phenomenon, dubbed the “Platonic Representation Hypothesis,” might be telling us something profound about the nature of reality itself. Imagine training one AI model to recognize images and another to process language.

4 weeks ago | nature.com | Miao Li

AbstractNPS-2143, as a CaSR allosteric antagonist, performs an important role in diverse cancers. However, the function and mechanism of NPS-2143 in human retinoblastoma have not been reported. Cell viability was evaluated by using cell counting kit-8, flow cytometry was used for apoptosis detection and western blotting was carried out to detect the expression of target genes. Small interference RNA (siRNA) was used to reduce CaSR expression. Bortezomib was used to suppress the NF-κB pathway.