Leap seconds have helped keep clocks synchronized with Earth’s rotation, but their time is now over – here’s why

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Leap seconds have helped keep clocks synchronized with Earth’s rotation, but their time is now over – here’s why

You’re probably used to the month of February having an extra day every four years, during the leap year. Timekeepers added that extra leap day because Earth completes one orbit around the Sun in about 365 and one-quarter days. If we didn’t add leap days, the equinoxes and solstices that mark the b»»»

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Large lan­guage mod­els (LLMs) need no intro­duc­tion. Omni­present in our lives, AIs such as Chat­G­PT, Claude and Gem­ini pos­sess remark­able cap­ab­il­it­ies for pre­dict­ing the sequence of words in a text based on stat­ist­ic­al cal­cu­la­tions. How­ever, in the view of a grow­ing num­ber of »»»

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