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Researchers in the burgeoning subfield of mechanistic interpretability, inspired by neuroscience, instead try to understand models by opening them up and poking around inside.
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Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
Varma is an associate professor of the psychological/medial anthropology subfield and the vice chair of undergraduate studies.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including several prominent titles in various agricultural subfields.
—Byscience News Staff, science.org, 20 Mar. 2025
In a paper describing her team’s analysis of 511 other papers, Ghassemi’s team reported that machine learning papers in healthcare were reproducible far less often than in other machine learning subfields.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2021
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Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
Varma is an associate professor of the psychological/medial anthropology subfield and the vice chair of undergraduate studies.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including several prominent titles in various agricultural subfields.
—Byscience News Staff, science.org, 20 Mar. 2025
In a paper describing her team’s analysis of 511 other papers, Ghassemi’s team reported that machine learning papers in healthcare were reproducible far less often than in other machine learning subfields.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subfield
Noun
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Sharon also learned that the subspecialty of child abuse pediatrics itself has also been under increasing scrutiny.—
Jessica Lussenhop,
ProPublica,
30 June 2025
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Low-income individuals that received regular monthly cash stipends visited the emergency department less, had fewer hospital admissions and participated in more outpatient subspecialty care according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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But this scene is much bigger in scope with over 100 people involved.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
20 Oct. 2025
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Lou Tobin, executive director of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys' Association, said prosecutors have narrowed their scope for death penalty cases and primarily pursue it when a child or multiple people die.—
Haley BeMiller,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
19 Oct. 2025
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What would the amplitude of those gravitational wave fluctuations be?—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Oct. 2025
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As a person sleeps, this synchrony grows, producing brain waves that are lower in frequency and higher in amplitude.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
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With Pervis Estupinan or Davide Bartesaghi holding width on the left and No 9 Santiago Gimenez dragging defenders away, Pulisic attacks the gap between centre-back and full-back, arriving in stride rather than starting wide.—
Sukhman Singh,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Instead, Granatosky and his team made measurements of the rat hole using images taken of it, including from snout to tail, head width, the base of the tail and the length of the identifiable fingers and claws.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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The breadth and granularity of information available from how people search and navigate the web—data that Google, one of OpenAI’s top competitors, already has access to—could be invaluable for developing future chatbots.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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This year’s lineup of honorees is a testament to the breadth of Black creativity in film and television.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
22 Oct. 2025
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Earlier this year, the Washington Post reported that computer-programmer employment dropped to its lowest level since the 1980s—one profession that has been hit hardest over the past few years.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
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The problem of teacher vacancies at MPS — a nationwide issue as fewer graduates enter the profession — has been pervasive and troublesome.—
Rory Linnane,
jsonline.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Currently, there are no details on the extent of land burned or the size of the crew involved in executing the prescribed fire.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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To some extent, this is true across geographies, the study shows.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Subfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subfield. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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