Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants(smithsonianmag.com)

107 points by bryanrasmussen 8 months ago | 32 comments

Titanic's sister, Britannic, sank in 1916. Divers have recovered artifacts(smithsonianmag.com)

57 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 18 comments

Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever(smithsonianmag.com)

146 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 39 comments

How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues(smithsonianmag.com)

249 points by divbzero 3 months ago | 196 comments

Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in nearly 12k years of records(smithsonianmag.com)

75 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 19 comments

Fields where Native Americans farmed a thousand years ago discovered in Michigan(smithsonianmag.com)

225 points by CoopaTroopa 1 year ago | 105 comments

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.

Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse(theregister.com)

45 points by beardyw 12 days ago | 32 comments

The Register article criticizing Anthropic for promoting a hypothetical AI threat that the author says stokes fears of an AI apocalypse.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

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.

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less(charitydotwtf.substack.com)

321 points by BerislavLopac 4 months ago | 157 comments

Charity Majors' Substack essay arguing that AI-assisted development requires more engineering discipline, comparing it to the shift from pet servers to immutable infrastructure.

America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom(washingtonpost.com)

441 points by voxleone 1 year ago | 607 comments

Washington Post business article on how US investment is flowing into an AI boom rather than a manufacturing revival.