A man who listens to whales(blue-continuum.com)

11 points by dnetesn 1 month ago | 2 comments

Blue Continuum feature profiling David Gruber, who is trying to decode what sperm whales are saying and believes it may be possible.

Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales(blue-continuum.com)

79 points by dnetesn 29 days ago | 60 comments

A Blue Continuum magazine profile of David Gruber, who is trying to decode what sperm whales are saying, using AI to analyze their communication.

Welcome to the Block Universe(nautil.us)

18 points by samizdis 7 months ago | 2 comments

Deep beneath earth's surface, clues to life's origins(quantamagazine.org)

72 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 27 comments

Precursors of Copernicus' heliocentric theory(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

47 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 16 comments

Euclid finds complete Einstein Ring in NGC galaxy(euclid-ec.org)

156 points by raattgift 1 year ago | 40 comments

I don't want to read what you didn't write(blog.colinbreck.com)

952 points by mooreds 1 month ago | 394 comments

Colin Breck's blog essay arguing against reading AI-generated writing such as design documents and summaries, and describing where he finds AI useful.

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)

463 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 222 comments

Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Total Historian(theideasletter.org)

18 points by benbreen 10 days ago | 4 comments

An essay in The Ideas Letter by Nicholas Mulder on historian Marc Bloch, prompted by his induction into the Panthéon in Paris.

Why Japanese companies do so many different things(davidoks.blog)

828 points by d0ks 5 months ago | 386 comments

A Substack essay by David Oks explaining the internal logic behind why Japanese corporations diversify into so many unrelated businesses.

Calculus with Julia(jverzani.github.io)

249 points by subset 23 days ago | 49 comments

Online open textbook by John Verzani teaching calculus using the Julia programming language, shown at its preface page.