Did Ancient Rome Have Windows?(learnancientrome.com)

3 points by choult 2 years ago | 1 comments

Cracking the code of Linear B(antigonejournal.com)

121 points by ecliptik 2 years ago | 25 comments

Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus(thehistoryblog.com)

69 points by danielam 6 months ago | 14 comments

“A Great Ox Stands on My Tongue”: The Pitfalls of Latin Translation(antigonejournal.com)

48 points by barrabas 3 years ago | 28 comments

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy(thehistoryblog.com)

238 points by wise_blood 6 months ago | 83 comments

Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe(quantamagazine.org)

193 points by jnord 3 months ago | 120 comments

Why the Bronze Age Collapsed(worksinprogress.news)

3 points by measurablefunc 26 days ago | 2 comments

A Works in Progress essay examining the causes of the Late Bronze Age collapse of Mediterranean civilizations.

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon(wilsoniumite.com)

466 points by Wilsoniumite 8 months ago | 597 comments

A personal blog post revisiting the author's failed prediction of a 2025 US economic crash and arguing a crash may still be coming, using data such as FRED unemployment charts.

The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire(michelecoscia.com)

136 points by mikk14 12 days ago | 30 comments

Blog post by Michele Coscia applying economic complexity analysis to the economy of the Western Roman Empire.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

TODOs aren't for doing(sophiebits.com)

380 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.

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.