Machine conquest: Jules Verne's technocratic worldmaking(cambridge.org)

54 points by johntfella 2 years ago | 61 comments

The Submerged Nabataean Temple in Puteoli at Pozzuoli, Italy(cambridge.org)

71 points by aguaviva 2 years ago | 29 comments

How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet(cambridge.org)

455 points by bawolff 3 years ago | 485 comments

Open-access American Political Science Review article examining how rule ambiguity and institutional clashes shaped Wikipedia's governance and community.

Possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record? (2018)(cambridge.org)

139 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 153 comments

Monumental snake engravings of the Orinoco River (2024)(cambridge.org)

17 points by bryanrasmussen 10 months ago | 2 comments

We can mine asteroids for space food(cambridge.org)

156 points by reinaldnaufal 1 year ago | 192 comments

Miscellanea: The War in Iran(acoup.blog)

508 points by decimalenough 7 months ago | 718 comments

A blog post on A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (ACOUP) by historian Bret Devereaux discussing the war in Iran.

Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity(noahpinion.blog)

526 points by bankershill 3 years ago | 485 comments

Noah Smith's Noahpinion essay arguing that eliminating or delaying advanced math instruction in public schools will not improve educational equity.

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.

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.

AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment(edworkingpapers.com)

57 points by bryan0 20 days ago | 42 comments

An Annenberg EdWorkingPapers research paper page on a two-year school experiment evaluating AI tutoring with Khan Academy's Khanmigo.

Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code(danielmiessler.com)

46 points by eigenBasis 6 hours ago | 21 comments

Daniel Miessler blog post arguing that written intent, via an 'Ideal State Artifact', rather than code should be the source of truth when building software with AI.