Study of fairy story origins traces some back thousands of years, with one tale dating back as far as bronze age

This is why people say the open source ecosystem sucks.

Structured data sources, such as tables, graphs, and databases, are ubiquitous knowledge sources. Despite the demonstrated capabilities of large language models (LLMs) on plain text, their...

Plant engineered to counter a debilitating vitamin A deficiency in developing countries has faced fierce opposition

A portable Common Lisp toolkit for building inspectors [MOVED TO CODEBERG] - aartaka/trivial-inspect

Lessons learned here hold solutions that can cross borders.

Inadvertent poisoning of scavengers across Indian subcontinent is forcing some communities to give up ancient custom

A decade-long effort to build a machine to unlock the promise of nuclear fusion fell victim to budget constraints and competing science, and was shut down the day it was dedicated. It was never turned on.

You know that mildly jarring experience whenever that well-known celebrity shows up in an entirely different context -- e.g. a musician making a horror

This paper introduces a novel Bayesian learning model to explain the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on their core optimization metric of next token prediction. We develop a...

Can't switch off from work? Envy those 'lazy' strikers? In this 1932 essay, Bertrand Russell, socialist and winner of some minor award called the Nobel Prize in Literature, presents the case for idleness. One can also download and/ or listen to an audio version…

The ADA just settled an explosive legal case accusing the organization of betraying people with diabetes

For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly everything else: semiconductors.

The Union of Concerned Scientists reports that Tyson Foods has dumped millions of pounds of toxins into America waterways.

Google has rolled back a recent release of its reCaptcha captcha noscript after a bug caused the service to no longer work on Firefox for Windows.