Articles by the-mitr
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More Students Use AI for Homework, and More Believe It Harms Critical Thinking (rand.org)

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How Reading books regulates your nervous system (bigthink.com)

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Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies (2021) (openhumanitiespress.org)

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The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces (2022) (oapen.org)

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Experimental Publishing Compendium (copim.pub)

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Been There, Done That – A History of Replacing Schools with AI (stager.tv)

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MoonRay – DreamWorks' open-source production MCRT renderer (openmoonray.org)

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Sage Math Cell – embed Sage computations into any webpage (sagemath.org)

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Tiny Terminal (meimakes.com)

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Math Notepad (mathnotepad.com)

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Preserving the Web Is Not the Problem. Losing It Is (techdirt.com)

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Gravity's Effect on Biology (frontiersin.org)

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mathematics [pdf] (cmu.edu)

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School stu­dents launch satel­lite to detect fungi in atmosphere (thehindu.com)

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AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture (nature.com)

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Surreal Number (wikipedia.org)

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Searching for Birds (visualcinnamon.com)

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Stop abusing Bernoulli when describing lift (straightdope.com)

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Poemotion by Takahiro Kurashima: An Interactive Book of Moire Patterns (abakcus.com)

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Barcode Scanner as a Musical Instrument (electronicosfantasticos.com)

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The Perry Bible Fellowship (pbfcomics.com)

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The Silicon Gaze: A typology of biases and inequality in LLMs (inequalities.ai)

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Transhumans – open-source illustrations of humans (transhumans.xyz)

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Memos – An open-source, self-hosted note-taking service (github.com/usememos)

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Journeying through cosmic views with James Webb Space Telescope [video] (youtube.com)

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World's Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots (techxplore.com)

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Learn Your Way – Re-imagining textbooks for every learner (withgoogle.com)

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Quartify: Convert R scripts into Quarto Markdown documents (github.com/ddotta)

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LLM Council – Your Local Multi-Model AI Advisory Board (github.com/karpathy)

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Cybernetic Methods in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (1976) (archive.org)

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Why Does A.I. Write Like – That? – Chatbot Writing Style (nytimes.com)

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Nighttime exposure to light may raise cardiovascular risk by up to 50% (news.harvard.edu)

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Why do we become mathematicians? (maa.org)

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AI Might Not Harm Us in the Way You Think (nautil.us)

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The danger of Biorender (& the death of scientific illustration) (twitter.com/nickdesnoyer)

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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out – Feynman Interview by BBC (1983) (archive.org)

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New universal law predicts how most objects shatter (phys.org)

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The Model of Catastrophe (aeon.co)

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From Cells to Selves (aeon.co)

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The Hidden Language of Our Body's Rhythms (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Great Math Software: List of fun visual math programs (xahlee.info)

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Electric Discharges Detected on Mars (phys.org)

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Our Phosphorescent World (aeon.co)

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The AI Challenge: Building Systems That Adapt, Not Just Adopt (punyamishra.com)

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Mapping Bob Dylan's Mind (aeon.co)

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Big Tech Wants Direct Access to Our Brains (nytimes.com)

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Really Simple Licensing – The open content licensing for the AI-first Internet (rslstandard.org)

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A Trip Around Our Surprisingly Psychedelic Planet (nautil.us)

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Copyright winter is coming (to Wikipedia?) (authorsalliance.substack.com)

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Visualisations explore what the deep future holds for our night sky [video] (aeon.co)

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Earth's largest modern crater discovered in Southern China (phys.org)

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I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students (nytimes.com)

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Physics in Pictures (1981) (archive.org)

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Shell Grotto: England's mysterious underground seashell chamber (boingboing.net)

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Books for Robots (Only) (jmadden.org)

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MIT Press Open Access Collection (archive.org)

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Cadabra – a field-theory motivated approach to computer algebra (cadabra.science)

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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2014) (tgvaughan.github.io)

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Kanban (wikipedia.org)

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The Lumafield Battery Quality Report (lumafield.com)

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The Earth Is Round (p < .05) (1994) [pdf] (sjsu.edu)

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Discrete Mathematics Without Formulas – Lectures Without a Board (archive.org)

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Immersive Linear Algebra (immersivemath.com)

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WorldCat Editions and Holdings Release (annas-archive.org)

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Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland" – Space, Time and Relativity [video] (archive.org)

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Authenticate Thyself (aeon.co)

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The Geometry of Colour [video] (aeon.co)

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Sci-Hub has been blocked in India (sci-hub.se)

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Desktop Linux Keeps Winning the Wrong Battles (howtogeek.com)

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The US used to be a haven for research. Now, scientists are packing their bags (csmonitor.com)

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Gnuplot (gnuplot.info)

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My Retro TVs (myretrotvs.com)

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Potemkin Village (wikipedia.org)

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The Scam of Age Verification (pornbiz.com)

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Ask HN: How do you take, manage and retrieve notes from pdfs and online sources

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Graphviz drawing in hand-made style (sketchviz.com)

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Graham's Number (wikipedia.org)

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Making Project Work Better with R (topepo.github.io)

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Memories Without Brains (aeon.co)

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M.C. Escher – Adventures in Perception [video] (archive.org)

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Jeffreys's Amazing Statistics Program (jasp-stats.org)

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Remembering the first 'photo' of a black hole (2017) (engadget.com)

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Mathematical Analysis for School Students (1980) (archive.org)

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The cosmic distance ladder with Terence Tao: part two [video] (aeon.co)

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A Critical Review by Scientists of How Physics and Astronomy Get Done [2008] (archive.org)

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How to run a shadow library: operations at Anna's Archive (2023) (annas-archive.org)

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Discussions on Refraction of Light (1984) (archive.org)

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What Happens When AI-Generated Lies Are More Compelling Than the Truth? (behavioralscientist.org)

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TikZ Libraries (tikz.dev)

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Agent-Based Modeling and Its Tradeoffs (arxiv.org)

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Mathematical Fiction (charleston.edu)

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Halton Arp (wikipedia.org)

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Twist: Teleoperated Whole-Body Imitation System (arxiv.org)

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Toward Practical Quantum Cryptography (aps.org)

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BloombergGPT: The First Large Language Model for Finance [2023] (medium.com/codex)

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Have They Been Here? Why We are searching for alien tech in solar system (aeon.co)

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A future in which 'artificial scientists' make discoveries may not be far away [video] (aeon.co)

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The Chernobyl Disaster Created an Unexpected Predator Paradise (atlasobscura.com)

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Math Proof Draws New Boundaries Around Black Hole Formation (nautil.us)

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Turbulence, the oldest unsolved problem in physics (2018) (arstechnica.com)