downboots
Re:What universities and higher education demand today
on Monday April 27, 2026 @03:56AM (#47918875)
Organized, attentive, nuanced, articulate, adaptable, critical thinking.
Re:An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem–by asking AI
on Monday April 27, 2026 @12:19AM (#47917656)
Re:Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the West...
on Sunday April 26, 2026 @06:21PM (#47915345)
We'll hopefully look back at these like we now see asbestos. All our scientific advancement doesn't automatically cure myopia. https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/disappearing-pod/how-...
Distribution of Global Biomass
The Shoe That Broke Running [video]
Re:An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem–by asking AI
on Sunday April 26, 2026 @08:28AM (#47909789)
Whoosh
Re:An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem–by asking AI
on Sunday April 26, 2026 @03:30AM (#47908195)
It doesn't matter if you use a car or go there walking. If your goal is cave exploration, the tools are irrelevant.
Re:How many biological substrates of life?
on Saturday April 25, 2026 @11:56PM (#47907195)
Does turing machine count?
Fruit Box
Re:Simulacrum of Knowledge Work
on Saturday April 25, 2026 @05:30PM (#47904687)
Yes. I think the main warning here is that it is an added risk. A little glitch here and there until something breaks.
Re:Simulacrum of Knowledge Work
on Saturday April 25, 2026 @05:15PM (#47904604)
Feels like a parallel with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_%28philosophy_o... where "it's not valid until you checked"
Re:Education must go beyond the mere production of words
on Saturday April 25, 2026 @12:43AM (#47898708)
> accurately represent a reality is going to become increasingly important
I personally perceive a decoupling all over the board. Not just in language. You hear terms like "wage stagnation" or "degree inflation". Just choose an area. They're all detachments from the true thing they represented.
Acrylamide
Watermarked LLM Outputs [pdf]
Re:Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries
on Thursday April 23, 2026 @02:15AM (#47872721)
No problem https://i.redd.it/1c3h2y6uzks61.jpg
Asset Harvester
Information Asymmetry
Re:Ping-pong robot Ace makes history by beating top-level human players
on Thursday April 23, 2026 @12:34AM (#47872273)
Robo-augmented padel, the future
Re:New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It'...
on Thursday April 23, 2026 @12:23AM (#47872232)
Corn cyborgs, the future
Search, Experience, Credence – classification of resources
Computerising Hyerogliphic Scripts [video]
Linkages to Trisect an Angle
Re:Show HN submissions tripled and now mostly have the same vibe-coded...
on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:52AM (#47865418)
Another can be cynicism depending on yuor audience
Re:The Engine, a fictional device to generate permutations of word sets
on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @01:53PM (#47852098)
Re:Less human AI agents, please
on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:03AM (#47845908)
Language's usefulness lies in its alignment with truth.
It's the difference between "there's a lion hiding in those bushes" and the appealing song of a mermaid.