The cases of consumer-grade routers on puny power supplies(blog.apnic.net)

69 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 43 comments

Writing Builds Resilience in Everyday Challenges by Changing Your Brain(scienceclock.com)

22 points by PikelEmi 11 months ago | 3 comments

Inspired by Spider-Man, scientists recreate web-slinging technology(scienceclock.com)

54 points by ohjeez 11 months ago | 14 comments

The Promise of 5-MeO-DMT(undark.org)

36 points by EA-3167 2 years ago | 38 comments

Why a spritz of water before grinding coffee yields better results(arstechnica.com)

308 points by CHB0403085482 2 years ago | 232 comments

Taurine and aging: Is there anything to it?(science.org)

57 points by etiam 1 year ago | 41 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.

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.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Mechanical Watch (2022)(ciechanow.ski)

700 points by razin 4 months ago | 118 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive blog article explaining how a mechanical watch mechanism works, with draggable 3D demonstrations.

EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear(environment.ec.europa.eu)

1138 points by giuliomagnifico 8 months ago | 747 comments

European Commission news article announcing Delegated and Implementing Acts under new EU rules banning the destruction of unsold clothes and shoes.

Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects(medicalxpress.com)

365 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 313 comments

Medical Xpress news article on a Stanford study finding a naturally occurring molecule that rivals Ozempic for weight loss without its side effects.