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2026-10-06 @ 16.19.40 ∈ In English

Is AI the End of Math As We Know It? | Quanta Magazine

Mathematicians are facing the sudden shift with grief, anger, and a desperate search for fresh ideas: “If we don’t adapt, there’s just no more math in 50 years.”

2024-09-15 @ 15.54.07 ∈ In English

‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman

In general, the claims about how long people are living mostly don’t stack up. I’ve tracked down 80% of the people aged over 110 in the [world]. Of those, almost none have a birth certificate. […] [A] Japanese government review in [2010 found] that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead.

2024-06-27 @ 11.17.36 ∈ In English

Search iNaturalist Photos With Text · iNaturalist

This demo enables you to search a snapshot of 10 million iNaturalist photos using text queries. For instance, typing in ‘a bird eating fruit’ will return matching photos ranked by their relevance to your query.

2023-11-02 @ 16.56.56 ∈ In English

Water can evaporate with just light, no heat, says surprising study

Scientists at MIT have made the surprising discovery that light alone can evaporate water, and is even more efficient at it than heat. […] The team named the new phenomenon the “photomolecular effect,” and hypothesized that photons of light could potentially “cleave off” clusters of water molecules near the liquid’s surface.

2022-04-07 @ 11.51.33 ∈ In English

Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography | Quanta Magazine

The existence of true one-way functions, they proved, depends on one of the oldest and most central problems in another area of computer science called complexity theory, or computational complexity. This problem, known as Kolmogorov complexity, concerns how hard it is to tell the difference between random strings of numbers and strings that contain some information.

2021-04-22 @ 19.44.27 ∈ In English

Groundbreaking effort launched to decode whale language

With artificial intelligence and painstaking study of sperm whales, scientists hope to understand what these aliens of the deep are talking about.

2019-10-30 @ 16.22.58 ∈ In English

The world’s first poop database needs your help

The campaign, launched by microbial health company Seed, dares you to “give a shit” for science by uploading photos of your feces so that scientists can use it to train an AI platform launched out of MIT.

2019-09-17 @ 15.41.33 ∈ In English

Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT - Slashdot

"Following outrage over his remarks about Jefferey Epstein's victims, Richard Stallman has resigned from his position in MIT, effective immediately." […] Stallman also resigned as president from the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as well as from the organization's board of directors, FSF announced shortly after.