Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world(ox.ac.uk)

250 points by mudil 1 month ago | 88 comments

Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact(bristol.ac.uk)

239 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 59 comments

Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately(uwaterloo.ca)

358 points by ndrwnaguib 1 year ago | 145 comments

University of Waterloo news release about researchers developing a needle-free wrist-worn device that tracks blood glucose levels more accurately.

Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS (2021)(uwaterloo.ca)

118 points by mgh2 2 years ago | 75 comments

Octopuses, crabs and lobsters recognised as sentient beings under UK law (2021)(lse.ac.uk)

429 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 388 comments

LSE news release from November 2021 announcing that octopuses, crabs and lobsters will be recognised as sentient beings under UK law following an LSE report.

Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica(psu.edu)

40 points by geox 1 year ago | 12 comments

Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages(ritsumei.ac.jp)

354 points by robin_reala 3 years ago | 56 comments

Personal website of Ritsumeikan University psychology professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka showcasing his optical and anomalous motion illusion artworks and research.

Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes(simonwillison.net)

339 points by ulrischa 1 year ago | 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.

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.

Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations(nhmu.utah.edu)

438 points by astronads 10 months ago | 263 comments

Natural History Museum of Utah article on a newly identified hallucinogenic mushroom from Yunnan markets, known locally as Jian shou qing, that causes fairytale-like visions.

Cold-blooded software(dubroy.com)

499 points by arbesman 2 years ago | 198 comments

Patrick Dubroy's blog essay using cold-blooded animals as a metaphor for software that can sit untouched for long periods and still work when revived.

Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess(dynomight.substack.com)

626 points by crescit_eundo 1 year ago | 424 comments

A Dynomight newsletter post examining how well large language models play chess and why results vary strangely across models.