Research on the visual rabbit illusion takes a leap forward(kyushu-u.ac.jp)

35 points by geox 2 years ago | 32 comments

Researchers create transparent magnetic materials using laser heating(tohoku.ac.jp)

24 points by geox 2 years ago | 10 comments

Organic thermoelectric device can harvest energy at room temperature(kyushu-u.ac.jp)

29 points by geox 2 years ago | 25 comments

Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report(psu.edu)

83 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 24 comments

First 2D, non-silicon computer developed(psu.edu)

123 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 27 comments

Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery(postech.ac.kr)

94 points by giuliomagnifico 10 months ago | 46 comments

Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan(tokyodev.com)

126 points by pwim 26 days ago | 41 comments

A TokyoDev article by Marco Cognetta on completing a computer science PhD at Tokyo Institute of Technology on a MEXT scholarship while working at Google.

AI Makes Me Sad(mondobe.com)

121 points by mondobe 24 days ago | 120 comments

A personal blog essay in which the author describes feeling sadness and hopelessness about new developments in AI, despite being positioned to benefit from it.

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder(ivanturkovic.com)

343 points by saikatsg 7 months ago | 242 comments

Blog post by Ivan Turkovic arguing that AI tools make producing code easier while making the broader job of being a software engineer harder.

GPUs Go Brrr(hazyresearch.stanford.edu)

1056 points by nmstoker 2 years ago | 243 comments

Stanford Hazy Research blog post on what GPU hardware wants for efficient AI kernels, introducing the ThunderKittens CUDA kernel library.

This is not the future(blog.mathieui.net)

581 points by ericdanielski 10 months ago | 309 comments

Blog post arguing against the 'this is the future, like it or not' framing for generative AI and other tech, asserting nothing is inevitable and modern technology is abusive.

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.