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by bikenaga 2y ago
I'm about 2/3 of the way through Richard Hofstadter's "Anti-intellectualism in American Life". It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964, but it's striking how many of his observations are still pertinent - which is con
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Rethinking Carnot: Scientists overcome traditional power-efficiency trade-off(phys.org)
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by bikenaga 2y ago
I don't understand what triggers the AI overview. "per capita gdp by country" - no AI "population of Kansas" - no AI "lisp interpreter" - no AI "emacs vs. vim" - AI overview "size of mit stu
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Large language models think too fast to explore effectively(arxiv.org)
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The Second-Longest Conveyor Belt Is Rolling in West Texas(texasmonthly.com)
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Democrat teams up with movie industry to propose website-blocking law(arstechnica.com)
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Why a Race to Artificial Superintelligence Is Self-Defeating [pdf](arxiv.org)
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People Reduce Workers' Compensation for Using Artificial Intelligence [pdf](arxiv.org)
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Anatomy of a Formal Proof(ams.org)
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Antibiotics,vaccinations, anti-inflammatory meds linked to reduced dementia risk(medicalxpress.com)
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Lifetime risk and projected burden of dementia(nature.com)
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Solar panels should not be cleaned with dishwashing detergent(techxplore.com)
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Stochastic Taylor Derivative Estimator(techxplore.com)
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MathReader: Text-to-Speech for Mathematical Documents [pdf](arxiv.org)
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Starbucks ends its 'open-door' policies(cnn.com)
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by bikenaga 2y ago
My t420 has an i5-2520M. Do you remember what model i7 you swapped for your i5?
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Losing ground – the Mississippi River's sprawling delta could soon vanish(science.org)
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Why the West needs prairie dogs(hcn.org)
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Mathematical methods point to possibility of particles long thought impossible(phys.org)
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Health insurers limit prosthetic limb coverage, questioning medical necessity(medicalxpress.com)
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Coffee drinking timing and mortality in US adults(academic.oup.com)
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Ocean sand is in demand, but mining it comes at a cost(phys.org)
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Study urges cutting irrigation to preserve Great Salt Lake's future(phys.org)
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America's first bird flu death reported in Louisiana(cnn.com)
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Brain study challenges long-held views about Parkinson's movement disorders(medicalxpress.com)
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by bikenaga 2y ago
Related to this question, there was a study done a few years ago to assess the effect of "real names" vs. pseudonyms on the online community: "Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment
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Princ-wiki-a Mathematica: Wikipedia editing and mathematics [pdf](arxiv.org)
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Rep-Tiles [pdf](arxiv.org)
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by bikenaga 2y ago
You might be thinking of: "One rather curious conclusion emerges, that pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied." I wonder what he would think if he could see the ways in which number theory, once often
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by bikenaga 2y ago
Yeah, my bad - I'm so accustomed to pdfs that I forget people often like other formats. Thanks for the link!

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