AvatarA.F.AvatarAvatar2 days agoThey Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a WarWIRED - Rachel LanceThe untold, top-secret story of the British researchers who found the key to keeping humans alive underwater—and helped make D-Day a success. Not long …
AvatarA.F.AvatarAvatar1 day agoThe invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloatverified_publisherThe Verge - Josh DziezaOn the afternoon of March 11th, 2011, Mitsuyoshi Hirai, the chief engineer of the cable maintenance ship Ocean Link, was sitting in his cabin 20 miles off Japan’s eastern coast, completing the paperwork that comes at the end of every repair. Two weeks earlier, something — you rarely knew what — …
AvatarA.F.FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day agoThe Dual Illusions of Timepsychologytoday.com - John NostaHow language shapes human and LLM temporal realities. Can large language models (LLMs) truly comprehend the concept of time? It's a question that goes …
AvatarA.F.FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo6 days agoRemembering Daniel Kahneman: A Mosaic of Memories and Lessonsbehavioralscientist.org - Evan NesterakThe loss of Daniel Kahneman looms large over the behavioral sciences. The pathbreaking and Nobel-winning psychologist has died at the age of 90. His …
AvatarA.F.FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAI Can Pretend To Be Stupider Than It Really Is, Scientists Findverified_publisherfuturism.com - Noor Al-Sibai"We may underestimate their capabilities for an extended period, which is not a safe situation." A new study suggests that advanced AI models are …
AvatarA.F.FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAdvanced AI can mimic human development stages, study findspsypost.org - Eric W. DolanIn the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, a new study published in PLOS One has shed light on an unexpected capability of large …
AvatarA.F.AvatarAvatarThe Atlantic Publishes “The Great American Novels,” a New List of the Most Consequential Novels of the Past 100 Yearsverified_publisherThe AtlanticThe list launches with events at the New Orleans Book Festival and on April 3 at the Strand, in New York Today The Atlantic launches “The Great American Novels,” an ambitious new project that brings together the most consequential novels of the past 100 years. Focusing on 1924 to 2023––a period that …
AvatarA.F.AvatarAvatarHalf Moon, Small Cloudverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By John UpdikePublished in The Atlantic in 2006 Today, the moon will pass directly in front of the sun, casting a shadow on Earth—and on us, eager onlookers ready with our eclipse glasses, necks craned to the sky. Some people will have traveled a long way to get a better look; others will seep out of homes or …
AvatarA.F.FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHow we know the Universe is 13.8 billion years oldbigthink.com - Ethan SiegelAccording to the theory of the hot Big Bang, the Universe had a beginning. Originally known as “a day without a yesterday,” this is one of the most …
AvatarA.F.AvatarAvatarThe principles of wearable etiquetteverified_publisherThe Verge - Victoria SongFirst adopters are ambassadors for the future. Glassholes need not apply. On my wedding day, I took off all my wearables. I had many reasons why. I didn’t want any distractions. It seemed ridiculous to squeeze in a workout on my big day just to keep my streaks going. As a wearables reviewer, I didn’t …
AvatarA.F.StoryboardIf Hitler Had Won WW2, These Were His Plans For The USAvatarCurated byGrungeHistory isn't linear: It's more like a spiderweb than a progression of singular events through Points A, B, C, and so on. Take World War II. For a long time, historians have been trying to learn just how much America knew about what was going on in Nazi Germany, and a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum project to document newspaper headlines of the era — and going back to the 1930s — makes it pretty clear that there were enough warning signs that "Why didn't the U.S. get involved sooner?" becomes...
AvatarA.F.AvatarAvatarHere’s How Nuclear War Could “Destroy Civilization” in Just a Few Hoursverified_publisherVanity Fair - By Jon SkolnikAnd why Putin and Trump present major danger to the United States’ nuclear paradigm. Twenty-four minutes. That’s how long it would take—just 1,440 seconds—for a nuclear warhead to travel from North Korea to the largest nuclear power plant in California, where it could set off a chain reaction of …