Seurat Most Famous for Paris Park Painting Yet Half His Paintings Were Seascapes(smithsonianmag.com)

23 points by bookofjoe 7 months ago | 7 comments

Titanic's sister, Britannic, sank in 1916. Divers have recovered artifacts(smithsonianmag.com)

57 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 18 comments

A Tiny Typo May Explain Centuries-Old Mystery Bout Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'(smithsonianmag.com)

26 points by keepamovin 1 year ago | 7 comments

Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants(smithsonianmag.com)

107 points by bryanrasmussen 8 months ago | 32 comments

Drought in Iraq reveals tombs created 2,300 years ago(smithsonianmag.com)

152 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 24 comments

Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in nearly 12k years of records(smithsonianmag.com)

75 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 19 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.

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.

Writing summaries is more important than reading more books(andreasfragner.com)

350 points by 42point2 3 years ago | 152 comments

Andreas Fragner's blog post arguing that writing summaries of good books yields more comprehension than reading more books.

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds(science.org)

402 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 350 comments

Science magazine news article reporting an analysis finding that sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake scientific papers.

Write some software, give it away for free(nonogra.ph)

350 points by nohell 5 months ago | 235 comments

An anonymous essay on Nonograph arguing for writing software and giving it away free, citing the platform's own low costs versus subscription-driven enshittification.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.