Mushroom hunters can't stop finding mysterious fungi(nytimes.com)

149 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 97 comments

How does David Geffen Hall sound?(nytimes.com)

10 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 1 comments

What a crab sees before it gets eaten by a cuttlefish(nytimes.com)

182 points by gk1 1 year ago | 51 comments

What sank the Bayesian superyacht in Italy?(nytimes.com)

131 points by rediguanayum 2 years ago | 192 comments

Google's plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search(nytimes.com)

137 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 221 comments

Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru's Desert(nytimes.com)

19 points by morninj 1 year ago | 13 comments

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

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.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

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.

Octopuses, crabs and lobsters recognised as sentient beings under UK law (2021)(lse.ac.uk)

429 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 388 comments

LSE news release from November 2021 announcing that octopuses, crabs and lobsters will be recognised as sentient beings under UK law following an LSE report.