The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)(jsomers.net)
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An essay by James Somers and Edwin Morris explaining how a single E. coli cell forages for nutrients through chemotaxis.
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The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)(jsomers.net)
390 points by jsomers | 123 comments
An essay by James Somers and Edwin Morris explaining how a single E. coli cell forages for nutrients through chemotaxis.
Scientists Untangle the Biology of an 'Undruggable' Cancer Gene(nytimes.com)
4 points by gumby | 2 comments
New York Times article on scientists working out the biology of a cancer gene long considered undruggable; the capture shows only a captcha page.
There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)
59 points by luu | 31 comments
An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.
Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft(writings.hongminhee.org)
541 points by dahlia | 539 comments
Blog essay arguing that AI-assisted clean-room reimplementation, as with chardet 7.0 relicensed from LGPL to MIT, may be legal but erodes the legitimacy of copyleft.
The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)
361 points by 6bitquant | 380 comments
Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.
Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)
453 points by bx376 | 663 comments
An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.