The 'Man-Eater' Screwworm Is Coming(theatlantic.com)

34 points by fortran77 1 year ago | 15 comments

Elephants use namelike calls(theatlantic.com)

125 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 92 comments

Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?(theatlantic.com)

29 points by paulpauper 6 months ago | 29 comments

Lore Segal Saw the World in a Nutshell(theatlantic.com)

7 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 0 comments

Venus flytraps count electrical impulses to induce the digestive process (2016)(theatlantic.com)

35 points by gaws 3 years ago | 7 comments

America Is Now a Rogue Superpower(theatlantic.com)

64 points by JumpCrisscross 6 months ago | 20 comments

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth(404media.co)

259 points by gumby 18 days ago | 148 comments

A 404 Media article about Jonathan, a tortoise believed to be the oldest living land animal, and what he might reveal about longevity and aging.

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.

The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)

388 points by mattjhall 1 year ago | 202 comments

A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.

Crows are even smarter than we thought(nautil.us)

443 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 236 comments

Nautilus article by Kenna Hughes-Castleberry on new evidence that crows and other corvids have surprising mental abilities.

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.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.