PETOSKEY — Petoskey’s annual Christmas Bird Count took place on Sunday, Dec. 14. This year, volunteers conducted the count from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in a 7.5-mile radius with the center point at the ...

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Adults under 60 should aim for 8,000 to 10,000 steps per day to lower the risk of death. Adults over 60 should aim for 6,000 to 8,000 steps per day for a lower risk of mortality. Taking at least 2,300 ...

Our daughter gave me a wallboard that says, “Count your blessings every day.” To those of you who keep writing about how awful it is to live in America, how terrible President Trump is, how badly ...

The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published. By Gina Kolata Letters ...

I’m curious to understand the logic of the letter writer from Zachary on Oct. 11, blaming the Republicans for the shutdown. The Republican House voted to keep the government open with a narrow ...

Forty-three years ago, in 1982, Detroit was introduced to a wonderful character, Count Scary, played by none other than Mr. Tom Ryan. Count Scary was no ordinary vampire. With his exaggerated ...

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) struggle on simple tasks such as counting the number of occurrences of a letter in a word. In this paper, we investigate if ChatGPT can learn to count letters ...

Re: “Vote no on Measure A sales tax hike” (Page A12, Oct. 19). Has the Mercury News gone crazy? I read the editorial, and it’s hard to believe that the liberal Mercury News opposes a tax increase.

US oil and gas drilling rig activity increased this week with the addition of 7 rigs, bringing the total working rigs to 549. This week’s count, however, is down 38 rigs from the comparable period a ...