Mongabay on breadfruit’s “biodiversatility”: According to recent research, the increased temperatures of climate change will widen breadfruit’s range, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa […] making this a reliable crop for places struggling with poverty and food security.
The Long Boom that got kinda real
They knew too much too soon.
Dr James Wootton on the 80s video game that helped scientists win a Nobel Prize
They’re more than just games.
Janelle Shane from AI Weirdness reviewed a study that showed GPT detectors were misclassifying writing by non-native English speakers as AI-generated 48-76% of the time, compared to 0%-12% for native speakers.
TIL: there’s an online encyclopedia for integer sequences. You can’t just put any sequence of numbers in but there are plenty of pages for the Fibonacci sequence, the Catalan numbers, and prime numbers.
The house is winning even more as Las Vegas casinos shift the odds and raise the stakes
Sam Rothstein would have never let this happen in his casino!
John D. Cook’s three advantages of non-AI models: It’s hard to imagine doing anything like Midjourney’s image generation without neural networks. The same is true of ChatGPT’s text generation. But a lot of business tasks do not require AI, and in fact would be better off not using AI.
Shout out to Nira Chamberlain
Born to Jamaican parents, Chamberlain regularly campaigns for more diversity within the mathematics community.
Japan’s prime minister wants to kill hay fever: As pollen levels in Tokyo surged to their highest in a decade, Kishida told a parliamentary committee this week that hay fever had become a “social problem,” adding that he would work with ministers to devise a response.
Why We’re Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power: a video by Half as Interesting examining Moore’s law and why transistors can’t get much smaller
Janus Cycle on the Technophone Excell PC105T: the world's first pocket-sized mobile phone
Nils and the Amazing Technophone Dream…phone?
STOP exploring the Ocean
Alright, nothing to sea here!