Lessons from the Lebanese Space Program – Kasurian(kasurian.com)

24 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 12 comments

Jefferson and America's Lost Idea: Natural Aristocracy(blog.joelonsdale.com)

31 points by the_bookmaker 3 years ago | 22 comments

Research as leisure activity(personalcanon.com)

159 points by gmays 2 years ago | 29 comments

Epicurus for Our Time(lareviewofbooks.org)

76 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 41 comments

The uncertain origins of aspirin(asimov.press)

48 points by dearwell 10 months ago | 12 comments

Designing AI for Disruptive Science(asimov.press)

66 points by mailyk 7 months ago | 38 comments

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.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

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.

Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high(worksinprogress.news)

414 points by bensouthwood 1 year ago | 411 comments

A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Deena Mousa arguing that AI is not replacing radiologists, with demand for human radiologists at an all-time high.

The Art of Finishing(bytedrum.com)

609 points by emmorts 2 years ago | 147 comments

A personal blog essay on the ByteDrum blog about a developer's pile of unfinished side projects and the challenge of actually finishing them.