Peacock feathers can be lasers(science.org)

13 points by ohjeez 1 year ago | 9 comments

NSF plans end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker(science.org)

74 points by trauco 1 year ago | 39 comments

Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground(science.org)

258 points by pseudolus 4 months ago | 291 comments

Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia(science.org)

312 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 141 comments

Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws pushback(science.org)

29 points by WarOnPrivacy 1 year ago | 8 comments

U.S. conditionally approves vaccine to protect poultry from avian flu(science.org)

26 points by Anon84 1 year ago | 24 comments

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.

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise(nair.sh)

742 points by nilirl 5 months ago | 314 comments

Essay by Tuhin Nair on why senior software developers struggle to communicate their expertise to others.

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight(karpathy.bearblog.dev)

637 points by __rito__ 10 months ago | 261 comments

Andrej Karpathy blog post about using LLMs to grade decade-old Hacker News discussions and commenters' predictions with hindsight, presented as an "HN Time Capsule" site.

Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds(bloomberg.com)

706 points by simula67 2 years ago | 467 comments

Bloomberg article reporting a San Francisco Fed study finding no evidence that remote work affects productivity, with about 30% of paid workdays remote at end of 2023.

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.

AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please(sergey.fyi)

393 points by serjester 1 year ago | 230 comments

Blog post by Sergey Filimonov arguing AI agents should prioritize reliability over expanded capability, critiquing flight-booking demos.