Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency(infoq.com)

274 points by ivanche 3 years ago | 441 comments

Meme group on Discord is focus of uproar over leaked Pentagon documents(nytimes.com)

71 points by hi5eyes 3 years ago | 223 comments

Click (2016)(clickclickclick.click)

117 points by JetSpiegel 3 years ago | 33 comments

Meta Open-Sources Computer Vision Foundation Model DINOv2(infoq.com)

202 points by thread_id 3 years ago | 84 comments

LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

110 points by zyl1n 3 years ago | 21 comments

Master Plan Part 3(tesla.com)

268 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 304 comments

Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent(dailyprincetonian.com)

341 points by bookofjoe 5 months ago | 513 comments

Daily Princetonian news article reporting that Princeton faculty voted to require proctoring for in-person exams, ending 133 years of unproctored exams under the honor code.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public(time.com)

347 points by binning 11 months ago | 146 comments

TIME article reporting on court filings alleging Meta downplayed risks its platforms posed to children and misled the public.

Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt(triblive.com)

565 points by Geekette 3 years ago | 692 comments

TribLive news article reporting that Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh have ended admissions preferences for children and relatives of alumni.

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.