Gradient Descending Through Brinespace(slimemoldtimemold.com)

37 points by voisin 2 years ago | 4 comments

Have attention spans been declining?(slimemoldtimemold.com)

595 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 435 comments

A Slime Mold Time Mold blog post, a reader-submitted finalist in its Mysteries Contest, examining whether human attention spans have actually been declining.

Mystery math whiz and novelist advance permutation problem(quantamagazine.org)

201 points by sashank_1509 3 years ago | 80 comments

Lady Tasting Brine(slimemoldtimemold.com)

33 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 25 comments

GDP is the wrong tool for measuring what matters (2020)(scientificamerican.com)

36 points by simonfxr 3 years ago | 10 comments

Math has changed the shape of gerrymandering(quantamagazine.org)

81 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 88 comments

Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)(arxiv.org)

165 points by teleforce 1 month ago | 68 comments

An arXiv paper proposing a multi-agent AI architecture inspired by Kahneman's fast and slow thinking, with a metacognitive module choosing between system 1 and system 2 agents.

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.

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy(news.cornell.edu)

411 points by giuliomagnifico 9 months ago | 748 comments

Cornell Chronicle article on research finding that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are associated with reductions in Americans' grocery and food purchases.

The Art of Finishing(bytedrum.com)

609 points by emmorts 2 years ago | 147 comments

A personal blog essay on the ByteDrum blog about a developer's pile of unfinished side projects and the challenge of actually finishing them.

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review(theguardian.com)

118 points by NewJazz 23 days ago | 59 comments

Guardian analysis on an FDA proposal to expand a loophole letting some toxic, non-carcinogenic chemicals be added to food without safety review.

Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video](youtube.com)

70 points by signa11 28 days ago | 36 comments

AI Engineer World's Fair talk video in which Stanford's John Ousterhout presents Homa, a transport protocol proposed to replace TCP in AI datacenter clusters.