Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales(blue-continuum.com)

79 points by dnetesn 22 days ago | 60 comments

A Blue Continuum magazine profile of David Gruber, who is trying to decode what sperm whales are saying, using AI to analyze their communication.

The first observation of humpback whale copulation(nautil.us)

11 points by geox 2 years ago | 1 comments

The problem with farmed seafood(nautil.us)

136 points by dnetesn 11 months ago | 96 comments

Scientists have 20-minute "conversation" with a humpback whale(earth.com)

63 points by aforelight 2 years ago | 37 comments

Are We over the "Jaws Effect?"(nautil.us)

26 points by fleahunter 10 months ago | 37 comments

Deep beneath earth's surface, clues to life's origins(quantamagazine.org)

72 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 27 comments

Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales(blue-continuum.com)

79 points by dnetesn 22 days ago | 60 comments

A Blue Continuum magazine profile of David Gruber, who is trying to decode what sperm whales are saying, using AI to analyze their communication.

As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing(thewalrus.ca)

845 points by awnird 2 months ago | 844 comments

A Walrus essay by Vass Bednar arguing that Google Search is declining as AI reshapes the web, and that the internet's collective memory is disappearing.

Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far(burkeholland.github.io)

797 points by tbassetto 9 months ago | 1203 comments

Burke Holland's blog post arguing that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 is a step change in AI coding agent experience.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 131 comments

Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.

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.