The invention of selective breeding was unbelievably late (2019)(gwern.net)

43 points by barry-cotter 3 years ago | 15 comments

A new method of recording and searching information (1953)(fermatslibrary.com)

14 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 5 comments

Early dispersal of domestic horses into the Great Plains and northern Rockies(fermatslibrary.com)

48 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 14 comments

Multi-Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

39 points by PaulHoule 5 months ago | 6 comments

Multiple lines of evidence suggest persistence of the ivory-billed woodpecker(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

30 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 13 comments

Computers and Automata (1953)(fermatslibrary.com)

77 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 10 comments

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.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored(rachel.fast.ai)

549 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 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.

The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines(phys.org)

21 points by pseudolus 1 month ago | 18 comments

Phys.org news article about how references to The Beatles appear in research papers across academic disciplines; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.

There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets(blog.jxmo.io)

448 points by bilsbie 1 year ago | 240 comments

Jack Morris essay arguing that major AI breakthroughs, including LLMs, came from new datasets rather than new ideas or methods.

A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await(cel.cs.brown.edu)

431 points by wcrichton 1 month ago | 124 comments

Brown University Cognitive Engineering Lab blog post summarizing a paper comparing how async/await designs differ across programming languages.

Full Text Search of US Court records(judyrecords.com)

412 points by FigurativeVoid 1 year ago | 81 comments

Judyrecords is a free full-text search engine covering over 740 million United States court cases, with an API.