The medical profession saw nothing wrong with offering a cocaine-laced cola to white, middle-class consumers. Selling it to Black Americans was another matter.

Machine learning has a pseudoscience problem. In this perspective, the authors explore
the recent resurgence of deep learning-assisted physiognomy and argue that pseudoscientific
and socially harmful applications of machine learning often arise from shared…

The long-held medical view was that stress caused ulcers. Dr. Warren and fellow Australian Barry Marshall, who shared a Nobel Prize, showed it was a bacteria.

A command-line interface for LLMs written in Bash. - simonmysun/ell

A handheld Linux terminal using Raspberry pi Zero 2W as Core with 4" 720X720 TFT display - ZitaoTech/Hackberry-Pi_Zero

  Wow — evidence that very massive neutron stars may have cores made of deconfined quark matter! The idea of a ‘quark star’ is not new, but I didn’t know it was a serio…

We've forgotten what community really means.

Tiny terrahertz transmissions

A vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere! - asg017/sqlite-vec

A team of researchers challenged the belief that complex life forms first emerged on Earth 635 million years ago, saying life may have existed 1.5 billion years before.

This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin - uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues

Apple Macintosh System Software 7.1 source leak (m68k + basic PPC) - laniku/sys71src

The Servo project is out with their latest monthly status report to highlight advancements made on this open-source, Rust-written web layout engine.

This study extends the analytic approach conducted by Watts et al. (2018) to examine the long-term predictive validity of delay of gratification. Participants (n = 702; 83% White, 46% male) completed...

Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences.