The American Weather Forecast Is in Trouble(theatlantic.com)

24 points by zfg 1 year ago | 7 comments

Americans Have Lost the Plot on Cooking Oil(theatlantic.com)

27 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 33 comments

America's Coming Smoke Epidemic(theatlantic.com)

63 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 17 comments

Should the Hawthorn Be Saved?(theatlantic.com)

29 points by nkurz 2 years ago | 12 comments

Venus flytraps count electrical impulses to induce the digestive process (2016)(theatlantic.com)

35 points by gaws 3 years ago | 7 comments

Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age(theatlantic.com)

113 points by Rant423 2 years ago | 246 comments

Plastics are poisoning us(newyorker.com)

361 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 416 comments

New Yorker article by Elizabeth Kolbert on how plastics release and attract toxic chemicals and spread everywhere, from human placentas to deep ocean trenches.

Every type of plastic used by LEGO (2022)(bricknerd.com)

348 points by nkurz 3 years ago | 106 comments

BrickNerd guest article by Ryan Howerter cataloguing every type of plastic material LEGO has used in its bricks and elements.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods(plasticlist.org)

588 points by jeff18 1 year ago | 179 comments

The PlasticList report describing a project that tested 100 everyday Bay Area foods for plastic chemicals such as endocrine disruptors, with methodology and results.

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.