INT. WAREHOUSE - NIGHT Following my recent rants about computer generated effects ( here and here ), I thought it would be fun to look i...

A definitive list of the signs of slop you’re seeing everywhere these days.

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An in-depth overview of some of the unusual and very advanced technical tricks used in the Commodore 64 game, Seawolves.

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Scientists must choose which among many experiments to perform. We study the epistemic success of experimental choice strategies proposed by philosophers of sci...

Saving regret has less to do with procrastination than we thought, and more to do with whether your country absorbs economic shocks or lets them hit your savings

I just finished Oliver Sacks’ excellent Everything in Its Place. In it, he mentioned as an aside that the Ginkgo biloba tree is hundreds of millions of years old, and its phenotype has been practically frozen since then – a living fossil.

Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characte…

This post is an elaboration on a comment I made on Hacker News recently, on a blog post that showed an increase in volume and decline in quality among the “Show HN” submissons.
I don't actually mind AI-aided development, a tool is a tool and should be used…

Ex-leader sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour over failed martial law declaration in 2024

The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict

92.6% of developers now use AI coding assistants. Yet productivity gains remain at 10%. New research explains why adoption hasn't matched impact.