First screen, captured .
206 points by benbreen | 64 comments
Res Obscura Substack post by Benjamin Breen on using the Opus 5.5 AI model to find a previously unknown eyewitness account of the dodo.
336 points by CharlesW | 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.
15 points by benbreen | 4 comments
JHI Blog essay on how late-medieval writers like Oresme, Mézières, and Froissart used mechanical clocks, which needed constant maintenance, as metaphors for cosmic and political order.
324 points by Brajeshwar | 124 comments
Nautilus article by Madison Goldberg on cryptographers' advance toward fully private database lookups and internet searches (private information retrieval).
339 points by ulrischa | 264 comments
Simon Willison blog post arguing that LLM hallucinations in code are the least harmful kind of mistake because running the code exposes them immediately.
549 points by chmaynard | 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.
546 points by fagnerbrack | 213 comments
A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.