Socioeconomic status and the relationship between the SAT and GPA (2009) [pdf](files.eric.ed.gov)

24 points by noch 2 years ago | 56 comments

Destruction of nuclear bombs using ultra-high energy neutrino beam (2003) [pdf](arxiv.org)

115 points by mvkel 2 years ago | 97 comments

Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study(ieeexplore.ieee.org)

39 points by rodrigo975 3 years ago | 6 comments

Welding of Plutonium (1958) [pdf](sgp.fas.org)

102 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 69 comments

Economic Effects of State Bans on Direct Manufacturer Sales to Car Buyers [pdf](justice.gov)

71 points by luu 2 years ago | 50 comments

Spike in short selling in Israeli-company ETF days before Oct 7 [pdf](img.haarets.co.il)

53 points by tecc501 2 years ago | 29 comments

Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments(neosmart.net)

497 points by ComputerGuru 8 months ago | 183 comments

A NeoSmart Technologies blog post on reconstructing original PDFs from raw encoded email attachments in the DoJ's Epstein archive release.

Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable(arxiv.org)

334 points by Cynddl 1 year ago | 333 comments

arXiv paper finding that fine-tuning language models to be warm and empathetic raises error rates and makes them more sycophantic on safety-critical tasks.

QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning(qwenlm.github.io)

445 points by nwjsmith 1 year ago | 147 comments

Qwen Team blog post announcing QwQ-32B, a 32B-parameter reasoning model trained with scaled reinforcement learning.

Some critical issues with the SWE-bench dataset(arxiv.org)

331 points by joshwa 1 year ago | 113 comments

arXiv paper introducing SWE-Bench+, an empirical analysis revealing data quality issues in the SWE-bench coding benchmark for LLMs, such as solution leakage and weak tests.

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks(nber.org)

327 points by littlexsparkee 5 months ago | 341 comments

NBER working paper by Kouchekinia, Neumark, and Bruckner examining whether employment slows cognitive decline using labor market shocks as evidence.

Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025)(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

89 points by thelastgallon 21 days ago | 44 comments

A 2025 Wiley journal article on replacing petroleum-based products with plant-based materials; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.