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Genomic prediction of IQ is modern snake oil (theinfinitesimal.substack.com)

a day ago | YeGoblynQueenne | substack.com | newest

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Breaking Wheel (wikipedia.org)

5 days ago | YeGoblynQueenne | wikipedia.org | newest

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'Precocious' early-career scientists with high citation counts proliferate (nature.com)

a week ago | YeGoblynQueenne | nature.com | newest

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Dutch suburb where residents must grow food on at least half of their property (theguardian.com)

a week ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Sweden is a nearly cashless society NAD that affects people who are left out (theconversation.com)

2 weeks ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theconversation.com | newest

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Is it true that up to half of people have no inner monologue? I investigated (theguardian.com)

2 weeks ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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'I received a first but felt tainted': inside the university AI cheating crisis (theguardian.com)

a month ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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I was a long-haired teenage boy in the 1960s. Why did everyone hate us so much? (theguardian.com)

a month ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Dune at 40: David Lynch's oddball adaptation remains a fascination (theguardian.com)

a month ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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'Systematic reviews' extracting broad conclusions from many studies are in peril (science.org)

a month ago | YeGoblynQueenne | science.org | newest

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Waymo gets stuck in a roundabout loop (reddit.com)

a month ago | YeGoblynQueenne | reddit.com | newest

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Tech companies Palantir and Anduril form fellowship for AI adventures (theregister.com)

a month ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theregister.com | frontpage

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Comparative lit class will be first in Humanities division to use UCL AI (ucla.edu)

a month ago | YeGoblynQueenne | ucla.edu | newest

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Japanese scientists were pioneers of AI; they're being written out of history (theconversation.com)

a month ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theconversation.com | best

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[flagged] 'I had no idea being a social drinker would damage my liver by 31' (bbc.co.uk)

a month ago | YeGoblynQueenne | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink (theregister.com)

a month ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theregister.com | frontpage

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Forest keepers: Arhuaco balance modern and ancient ways – photo essay (theguardian.com)

2 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Kong Yiji: The memes that lay bare China's youth disillusionment (bbc.co.uk)

2 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | bbc.co.uk | newest

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LLMs Orchestrating Structured Reasoning Achieve Kaggle Grandmaster Level (arxiv.org)

2 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | arxiv.org | newest

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How Far Is Video Generation from World Model: A Physical Law Perspective (arxiv.org)

2 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | arxiv.org | newest

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[dupe] Kentucky man declared brain dead wakes up during organ harvesting (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Scientific papers that mention AI get a citation boost (nature.com)

3 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | nature.com | newest

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[flagged] Tesla Optimus bots were controlled by humans during the 'We, Robot' event (techcrunch.com)

3 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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Invert a Binary Tree – $10k AI Reasoning Challenge (v2) (gist.github.com)

3 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | github.com | newest

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I was written off by John Lewis for car insurance because I'm an author (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Can AI have common sense? Finding out is key to achieving machine intelligence (nature.com)

3 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | nature.com | newest

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'People say, just get surgery, and I'm like: Bruh, this is after surgery' (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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'Places to heal, not to harm': brutal prison design kills off hope (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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"Self-Driving" Cars Have a Dirty Secret. and It's a Big One (futurism.com)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | futurism.com | newest

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Genetic ghosts suggest Covid's market origins (bbc.com)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | bbc.com | frontpage

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[flagged] Executions of the conceivably innocent are no better than human sacrifice (latimes.com)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | latimes.com | frontpage

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Doctor who sounded alarm on ultra-processed food urges tougher action (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Britain's 'broken' water system: a history of death, denial and diarrhoea (theconversation.com)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theconversation.com | newest

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Suspected serial killers and unsuspected statistical blunders (sagepub.com)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | sagepub.com | newest

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Operating on the wrong body part – what can be done to prevent it? (theconversation.com)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theconversation.com | newest

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Illegal visa network making millions fleecing students (bbc.com)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | bbc.com | frontpage

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Lucy Letby hospital's 'inexplicable spike' in baby deaths not unusual (telegraph.co.uk)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | telegraph.co.uk | newest

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US arms advantage over Russia and China threatens stability, experts warn (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Amazon is trying to trick me into signing up for Prime services (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | best

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Using SWI-Prolog in the Browser (WASM) (swi-prolog.org)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | swi-prolog.org | newest

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An epidemic of falls on the 'mean streets' of Athens (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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The National Childbirth Trust has shaped childbirth in the UK (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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The trial of Lucy Letby has shocked British statisticians (economist.com)

5 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | economist.com | newest

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Sydney aquarium filled with song after sea birds mourn death of gay penguin (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Spiders manipulate and exploit bioluminescent signals of fireflies (cell.com)

5 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | cell.com | newest

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Can Large Language Models Reason? A Characterization via 3-SAT (arxiv.org)

5 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | arxiv.org | newest

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Briton dies before clearing name after 38 years in US jails (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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[flagged] What do scientists tell us about boxing's gender row? (bbc.com)

5 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | bbc.com | frontpage

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Google listed my restaurant's number as its British HQ (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | best

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Tesla that killed motorcyclist was in Full Self-Driving mode (theregister.com)

5 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theregister.com | newest

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Do you think that ChatGPT can reason? – Machine Learning Street Talk (youtube.com)

6 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | youtube.com | newest

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The other shoe dropping on 'AI' and office work (baldurbjarnason.com)

6 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | baldurbjarnason.com | newest

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Raw Milk Consumption Risks and Benefits (2015) (nih.gov)

6 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | nih.gov | newest

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Forensic Pseudoscience – The Unheralded Crisis of Criminal Justice (2015) (bostonreview.net)

6 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | bostonreview.net | frontpage

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Greeks reflect on democracy's new dawn 50 years after its return (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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The Neural System, the Waterfeeler, the Legsystem, Wind (strandbeest.com)

6 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | strandbeest.com | newest

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The oldest known recording of a human voice [video] (bbc.com)

6 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | bbc.com | best

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What if Lucy Letby is innocent? (dailymail.co.uk)

6 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | dailymail.co.uk | newest

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Is Lucy Letby innocent? I'm a miscarriage of justice investigator (independent.co.uk)

6 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | independent.co.uk | newest

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Bionic Duckweed: making the future the enemy of the present (2020) (stianstian.medium.com)

6 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | medium.com | newest

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Lucy Letby: Serial killer or a miscarriage of justice? (telegraph.co.uk)

6 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | telegraph.co.uk | newest

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Lucy Letby: killer or coincidence? Some experts question the evidence (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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The French republic is under threat. We 1k historians cannot remain silent (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Labour is telling Britain it is now a conservative party – we should believe it (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Boeing Is the Canary in the Trickle-Down Coal Mines (medium.com/civic-skunk-works)

7 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | medium.com | frontpage

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In Sweden, a far-right assault on the media is undermining the Nordic model (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Exactitude in Science (wikipedia.org)

7 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | wikipedia.org | newest

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Is there asbestos in your makeup? Women with cancer are suing big beauty brands (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Wooden bowling arm that bested Australian cricketer in 1909 rebuilt (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | best

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Bishop's plea over Sudan civil war media coverage (bbc.com)

7 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | bbc.com | newest

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Checkmate? AI's pawn-pushing prowess proves partly pitiful, partly promising (theregister.com)

7 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theregister.com | newest

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Last major Arabic-style mosque in China loses its domes (theguardian.com)

8 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite – and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug (theregister.com)

8 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theregister.com | frontpage

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AI Driving Materials Discovery? Perspective on Deep Learning Materials Discovery (acs.org)

8 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | acs.org | newest

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Press Pause on the Silicon Valley Hype Machine (nytimes.com)

8 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | nytimes.com | newest

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Waymo's NHTSA investigation shows how far along autonomous cars are (buttondown.email/apperceptive)

8 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | buttondown.email | newest

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A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It? (newyorker.com)

8 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | newyorker.com | newest

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Antisemitism, Then and Now: A Guide for the Perplexed (thenation.com)

8 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | thenation.com | newest

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Greece churches in Vrontados take part in annual 'rocket war' [video] (bbc.co.uk)

8 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | bbc.co.uk | newest

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PlanBench: An Extensible Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Planningand Reasoning (neurips.cc)

8 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | neurips.cc | newest

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Can LLMs Reason and Plan? (Talk Google_DeepMind LLM Reasoning Seminar) (youtube.com)

8 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | youtube.com | newest

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Vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites (theguardian.com)

8 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | best

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Elon Musk's latest brainfart is to turn Tesla cars into AWS on wheels (theregister.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theregister.com | frontpage

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Unregulated 'identity tracers' harass people for debts they do not owe (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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'Eat the future, pay with your face': my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15B miles away (theregister.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theregister.com | best

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Artificial Intelligence's 'Insatiable' Energy Needs Not Sustainable Arm CEO Says (wsj.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | wsj.com | newest

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Goldsmiths crisis: cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Texas is replacing human exam graders with AI (theverge.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theverge.com | newest

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IDF colonel discusses 'data science magic powder' for locating terrorists (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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Mass use of guided bombs driving Russian advances, says Ukraine (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Su-34: Russia Upgrades UMPC Software for Bomb Release (eurasiantimes.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | eurasiantimes.com | newest

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In defence of wasps: a misunderstood insect with human-like qualities (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | newest

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For some Christians, a solar eclipse signals the second coming of Christ (theconversation.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theconversation.com | newest

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Autonomous Weapons: The False Promise of Civilian Protection (2022) (cigionline.org)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | cigionline.org | best

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AI is driving a future of autonomous warfare – DW Analysis (youtube.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | youtube.com | newest

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Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids (ft.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | ft.com | best

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OpenAI-backed Ghost Autonomy shuts down (techcrunch.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | techcrunch.com | newest

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[dupe] 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spree in Gaza (archive.is)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | archive.is | frontpage

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Cups vs. grams: why can't American and British cooks agree on food measurements? (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | YeGoblynQueenne | theguardian.com | frontpage