marojejian

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by marojejian 3mo ago
archive: https://archive.is/mai5w Impressed by the progress. Also interesting how much stronger depression is as a risk factor, vs. all others.
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Chickadees cheat on their partner more with males better at navigation(elifesciences.org)
2 points by marojejian 3mo ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 3mo ago
This is why men don't ask for directions :P
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CatchCat – Pokémon Go for Cats, IRL(catchcat.lol)
47 points by marojejian 3mo ago|10 comments
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by marojejian 3mo ago
Sister shared this with me. Actually looks cool. They try to verify you are taking a live picture, so you get real cats. more info: https://cheezburger.com/45806853/pokmon-go-but-for-cats-free...
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GLP-1's help women find work, and men to leave their partners(ft.com)
4 points by marojejian 4mo ago|4 comments
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by marojejian 4mo ago
archive: https://archive.is/zx8Ba Here's the full research article, from the researcher's website: https://hu-my.sharepoint.com/personal/rdiamond_fas_harvard_e... >Single women’s marriage
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by marojejian 4mo ago
SIgh, just seeing the comments here. I get emails for replies to my comments, but not to postings, so never saw these. The link was one provided by the researcher, but HN stripped out al the params that allowed it to be viewed. I need to
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Differentiation drives the erosion of positivity on social media(pnas.org)
4 points by marojejian 4mo ago|2 comments
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by marojejian 4mo ago
full article via preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/7fjpr_v2 essentially negativity progresses since: >it is easier to differentiate oneself through negative comments than through positive comments I f
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Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to federal regulatory structure(npr.org)
83 points by marojejian 4mo ago|124 comments
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GLP-1 drugs increase women's marriage and employment rates(hu-my.sharepoint.com)
1 points by marojejian 4mo ago|6 comments
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by marojejian 4mo ago
OK, these effect sizes are huge. That and the drama of the findings provokes general skepticism. So I welcome some experienced folks picking this apart. >Single women’s marriage/cohabitation rates rise by 29 percentage points and
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Fruit fly sperm are almost as the the fly. How do they stay untangled?(nytimes.com)
3 points by marojejian 4mo ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 4mo ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/science/giant-fruit-fly-s... This seminal discovery is nuts. And interesting way beyond the puns. Each sperm is almost as long as the fly itself. They seem t
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AI systems out-persuade expert humans(arxiv.org)
3 points by marojejian 4mo ago|2 comments
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by marojejian 4mo ago
> We found converging evidence that AI's advantage stemmed from rapidly deploying larger quantities of information This jibes with previous results in LLMs effectiveness at combatting disinformation: https://mitsloan.mit.
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Plants keep tabs on the competition, and adapt growth patterns(economist.com)
4 points by marojejian 4mo ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 4mo ago
archive: https://archive.is/DmK2v#selection-1073.0-1073.39
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Vinod Khosla: We will need a new tax code for the wealth AI creates(ft.com)
3 points by marojejian 4mo ago|2 comments
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by marojejian 4mo ago
archive https://archive.is/K5s2A#selection-1457.0-1457.12 OK, it's temping for me to make this comment about Vinod and perceptions of his past actions. But he's not important in the larger picture, and this issue
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Bumblebees can solve problems like chimps and elephants(npr.org)
7 points by marojejian 4mo ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 4mo ago
paper: Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady1618
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by marojejian 4mo ago
Taking action to even the distribution of wealth & power anywhere in the world is a good idea. this has always been true. The Machine Learning Revolution is just making it more urgently true. That said it's a bad idea to have the s
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The plan to give Americans an equity stake in AI(ft.com)
3 points by marojejian 4mo ago|3 comments
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by marojejian 4mo ago
archive: https://archive.is/ainRf
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by marojejian 5mo ago
Having done my share of pipetting back in the day, I have no problem letting my ML overlords take that part of the job. for good or ill, overall biology is so complex and hard to experiment with, ML progress will be bottlenecked by other fa
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The British Used to Sound Like We Did(nytimes.com)
2 points by marojejian 5mo ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 5mo ago
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/opinion/british-american-...
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Multimember Districts? Ranked Choice? This Is How to Fix Our Elections(nytimes.com)
7 points by marojejian 5mo ago|2 comments

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