Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower(smithsonianmag.com)

38 points by bookofjoe 6 months ago | 23 comments

Sandhill cranes have adopted a Canada gosling(smithsonianmag.com)

141 points by NaOH 1 year ago | 35 comments

Mesmerizing Interlocking Geometric Patterns Produced with Japanese Woodworking(smithsonianmag.com)

120 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 26 comments

A lumberjack created more than 200 sculptures in Wisconsin's Northwoods(smithsonianmag.com)

91 points by noleary 1 year ago | 41 comments

In a milestone for Manhattan, a pair of coyotes has made Central Park their home(smithsonianmag.com)

176 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 168 comments

Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning(smithsonianmag.com)

179 points by 1659447091 7 months ago | 40 comments

Mathematical Origami(mathigon.org)

108 points by signa11 27 days ago | 22 comments

Mathigon page on mathematical origami, showing how to fold Platonic solids and other polyhedra with 3D models and explanations.

Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa(catonmat.net)

332 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 116 comments

A Catonmat blog post explaining how consecutive Fibonacci numbers can approximate conversions between miles and kilometers.

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 19 days ago | 380 comments

Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.

Why Math Dumped OpenAI(raymyers.org)

11 points by xeonmc 9 days ago | 0 comments

A blog post by Ray Myers arguing why the mathematics community moved away from OpenAI.

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.

If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function(devblogs.microsoft.com)

55 points by ibobev 20 days ago | 25 comments

Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining what happens when someone tries to hot-patch a Windows function that has already been hot-patched.