The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020)(nature.com)

213 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 68 comments

Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos(nature.com)

34 points by bryanrasmussen 25 days ago | 4 comments

Open-access Scientific Reports article studying body awareness in Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana).

Mummy of juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from Upper Pleistocene(nature.com)

46 points by bryanrasmussen 1 year ago | 17 comments

Lawful kinematics link eye movements to the limits of high-speed perception(nature.com)

24 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 5 comments

Cannabis pollen dispersal across the United States(nature.com)

71 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 67 comments

AI poetry is indistinguishable from human poetry and is rated more favorably(nature.com)

62 points by lr0 1 year ago | 114 comments

Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)(arxiv.org)

165 points by teleforce 28 days ago | 68 comments

An arXiv paper proposing a multi-agent AI architecture inspired by Kahneman's fast and slow thinking, with a metacognitive module choosing between system 1 and system 2 agents.

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.

The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions(arxiv.org)

195 points by martincsweiss 4 days ago | 80 comments

arXiv abstract page for a NeurIPS 2026 paper proposing a method to sample scientifically coherent research directions that existing researcher communities are unlikely to propose.

Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds(bloomberg.com)

706 points by simula67 2 years ago | 467 comments

Bloomberg article reporting a San Francisco Fed study finding no evidence that remote work affects productivity, with about 30% of paid workdays remote at end of 2023.

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.

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.