The first observation of humpback whale copulation(nautil.us)

11 points by geox 2 years ago | 1 comments

Repeat offenders may be responsible for many shark attacks(nautil.us)

39 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 36 comments

Are We over the "Jaws Effect?"(nautil.us)

26 points by fleahunter 10 months ago | 37 comments

Cows can use sophisticated tools(nautil.us)

70 points by Tomte 9 months ago | 40 comments

Einstein's Other Theory of Everything(nautil.us)

158 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 101 comments

Why Our Brains Crave Ideology(nautil.us)

7 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 1 comments

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored(rachel.fast.ai)

549 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 134 comments

Rachel Thomas blog post on how a high-profile Nature paper using a Transformer to predict enzyme functions contained many errors that received far less attention than the original result.

Cold-blooded software(dubroy.com)

499 points by arbesman 2 years ago | 198 comments

Patrick Dubroy's blog essay using cold-blooded animals as a metaphor for software that can sit untouched for long periods and still work when revived.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.