Bilingualism affords no general cognitive advantages: Study(journals.sagepub.com)

296 points by amadeuspagel 3 years ago | 341 comments

Lonely individuals process the world in idiosyncratic ways(journals.sagepub.com)

117 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 68 comments

Research Finds Women Are Advantaged in Being Hired in Academic Science(journals.sagepub.com)

38 points by jimmybox 3 years ago | 3 comments

The brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile inside (2020)(journals.sagepub.com)

304 points by optimalsolver 3 years ago | 155 comments

Spirituality of Science: Implications for Meaning, Well-Being, and Learning(journals.sagepub.com)

33 points by geox 3 years ago | 39 comments

Evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging (2022)(journals.sagepub.com)

48 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 2 comments

Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it(science.org)

598 points by nabla9 1 year ago | 370 comments

A Science Advances research article on how cognitive skills change with age and whether using them prevents decline; the page showed a Cloudflare verification check.

Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s(shloked.com)

408 points by shloked 1 year ago | 216 comments

Blog post analyzing how Claude's memory system works, retrieving from raw conversation history on demand, and contrasting it with ChatGPT's memory design.

LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale(anthropic.com)

429 points by johnbender 3 days ago | 265 comments

Anthropic research post describing how Claude produced formal proofs of crash-freedom for RISC-V binaries of 123 OSS-Fuzz open-source libraries, finding bugs along the way.

Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)(karpathy.medium.com)

335 points by swatson741 11 months ago | 132 comments

Andrej Karpathy's 2016 Medium essay arguing that practitioners should understand backpropagation because it is a leaky abstraction.

Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation(sciencedirect.com)

341 points by ck45 3 years ago | 219 comments

Abstract page for a Journal of Experimental Social Psychology paper finding that loyal workers are selectively targeted for exploitation by managers.

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics(openai.com)

545 points by davidbarker 8 months ago | 369 comments

OpenAI post announcing that GPT-5.2 derived a new result in theoretical physics; the captured page shows only a loading logo.