Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists(dynomight.net)

174 points by Schroedingers2c 3 years ago | 217 comments

WHO aspartame brouhaha(dynomight.net)

95 points by cantaloupe 3 years ago | 176 comments

Take something you don’t like and try to like it(dynomight.net)

237 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 185 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics(quantamagazine.org)

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

DNA is maybe 60-750MB of data(dynomight.net)

16 points by MattSayar 1 year ago | 2 comments

Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s(resobscura.substack.com)

64 points by arbesman 3 years ago | 33 comments

Why English doesn't use accents(deadlanguagesociety.com)

318 points by sandbach 1 year ago | 528 comments

A Dead Language Society newsletter post by Colin Gorrie explaining why English spelling lacks diacritic accents while French uses many.

I don't want to read what you didn't write(blog.colinbreck.com)

952 points by mooreds 1 month ago | 394 comments

Colin Breck's blog essay arguing against reading AI-generated writing such as design documents and summaries, and describing where he finds AI useful.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

456 points by artninja1988 3 months ago | 225 comments

A Xena Project blog post about mathematicians being outpaced at finding counterexamples, from the blog on mathematicians learning the Lean theorem prover.

A lot of population numbers are fake(davidoks.blog)

362 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 295 comments

A blog post by David Oks arguing that many national population figures are unreliable or fabricated, questioning how well we know the world's population.

I'm Tired of Talking to AI(orchidfiles.com)

1753 points by theorchid 5 months ago | 850 comments

A personal essay recounting frustration with people replying using copy-pasted AI answers, including on GitHub discussions and from an employer sharing ChatGPT screenshots.

The revolt of the reader(bcantrill.dtrace.org)

554 points by chmaynard 1 month ago | 269 comments

Bryan Cantrill blog post arguing, as a reader, against people publishing LLM-authored writing under their own names.