Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins(sciencedirect.com)

50 points by wslh 6 months ago | 20 comments

Diesel pollution particles impair lysosomal functions of iPSC-derived microglia(sciencedirect.com)

22 points by PaulHoule 10 months ago | 9 comments

Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective(sciencedirect.com)

121 points by Brajeshwar 8 months ago | 49 comments

Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer's Disease in Adventist Health Study-2(sciencedirect.com)

20 points by Stratoscope 5 months ago | 19 comments

Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada(sciencedirect.com)

219 points by bushwart 4 months ago | 145 comments

The Water Footprint of AI(doi.org)

32 points by MASNeo 2 months ago | 32 comments

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less(charitydotwtf.substack.com)

321 points by BerislavLopac 4 months ago | 157 comments

Charity Majors' Substack essay arguing that AI-assisted development requires more engineering discipline, comparing it to the shift from pet servers to immutable infrastructure.

TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale(afterbabel.com)

474 points by cwwc 1 year ago | 471 comments

An After Babel Substack essay arguing that TikTok causes widespread harm to children and teens.

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.

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.

How America's universities became debt factories(anandsanwal.me)

388 points by car 2 years ago | 433 comments

Blog post by Anand Sanwal arguing that American universities have become debt factories that saddle students with heavy loans.

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.