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How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)

virginia.edu
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Smart researchers pioneer nanosensor for real-time iron detection in plants

mit.edu

Researchers from the Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) interdisciplinary research group of the...
Researchers from the Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) interdisciplinary research group of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, in collaboration with Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) and MIT, have devel...

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Show HN: We built a Plug-in Home Battery for the 99.7% of us without Powerwalls

pilaenergy.com
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In contrast to Earth, Mars's middle atmosphere appears driven by gravity waves

phys.org

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"It Has Been Determined" That Infected Dairy Herd Serology Can Be Disclosed

substack.com

Opaqueness in decision-making was an eye-opener for me 22 years ago when I moved to federal...
Opaqueness in decision-making was an eye-opener for me 22 years ago when I moved to federal service from the private sector. Controversial or unpopular decisions came down from above with no fingerprints, just a third-party attribution, e.g. “it has been determined…” I came to quickly realize that not personally own...
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Welcome to the Zero Sum Era. Now How Do We Get Out?

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You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we...
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.My grandfather’s idea of an Easter egg hunt involved hiding money in colorful plastic eggs sprinkled around his house on Long Island. Most held coins, but there was always one ...

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Android phone will run Debian Linux soon (like some Pixels can)

zdnet.com

Kerry Wan/ZDNETQualcomm claims that my Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus' Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is faster than...
Kerry Wan/ZDNETQualcomm claims that my Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus' Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is faster than the Intel Core Ultra 288V chip. My smartphone also has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of solid-state storage. In short, it's more powerful than most of my laptops. So why not use it as a laptop? Why not, indeed, says Google,...
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Open-sourcing 5,000hrs of self-driving dataset

huggingface.co

Published March 11, 2025 Update on GitHub State-of-the art Vision Language Models and Large Language Models...
Published March 11, 2025 Update on GitHub State-of-the art Vision Language Models and Large Language Models are trained on open-source image-text corpora sourced from the internet, which spearheaded the recent acceleration of open-source AI. Despite these breakthroughs, the adoption of end-to-end AI within the robot...
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Why data on the economy doesn't match our feelings

marketplace.org

\n Leading up to the election, economic figures said the economy was doing pretty well and...
\n Leading up to the election, economic figures said the economy was doing pretty well and inflation was slowing down significantly. Yet a lot of people just didn’t feel it. Now, inflation expectations are rising, polls show economists say there’s a higher risk of recession due to chaotic tariff policy, and consumer...
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UK petition to keep Apple data encrypted

38degrees.org.uk
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Snapshots of Modern Mathematics from Oberwolfach

imaginary.org
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Percolation Theory [pdf]

mit.edu
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Truth Functional Logic for Hackers

lagomor.ph

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Why Go?

github.com
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Building Deep Research Agent from Scratch

swirlai.com

👋 I am Aurimas. I write the SwirlAI Newsletter with the goal of presenting complicated Data...
👋 I am Aurimas. I write the SwirlAI Newsletter with the goal of presenting complicated Data related concepts in a simple and easy-to-digest way. My mission is to help You UpSkill and keep You updated on the latest news in GenAI, MLOps, Data Engineering, Machine Learning and overall Data space.The big topic of last m...
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Espressif's Response to Undocumented Commands in ESP32 Bluetooth by Tarlogic

espressif.com

Recently, some media have reported on a press release initially calling out ESP32 chips for having...
Recently, some media have reported on a press release initially calling out ESP32 chips for having a “backdoor”. Espressif would like to take this opportunity to clarify this matter for our users and partners. Recently, some media have reported on a press release initially calling out ESP32 chips for having a “backd...
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Backyard Cyanide

suziepetryk.com

There’s a bushy tree in my backyard with these dark red fruit — the kind that...
There’s a bushy tree in my backyard with these dark red fruit — the kind that makes some primal instinct scream at you across millennia, but you can’t tell if it wants you to eat them or not. I used a plant app to identify it (like a true horticultural expert): it’s Prunus laurocerasus, or cherry laurel. The most in...
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NASA to launch space observatory that will map 450M galaxies

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A new NASA space observatory is scheduled to launch into orbit this week on a lofty...
A new NASA space observatory is scheduled to launch into orbit this week on a lofty mission to map more than 450 million galaxies.The SPHEREx mission (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will map the entire sky four times over two years, offering sci...
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New tools for building agents

openai.com
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Legion Health (YC S21) is hiring an AI/ML Engineer

ycombinator.com

World-class, AI-enabled psychiatry covered by insurance$130K - $180K / 0.40% - 1.20%San Francisco, CA, USConnect directly...
World-class, AI-enabled psychiatry covered by insurance$130K - $180K / 0.40% - 1.20%San Francisco, CA, USConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role › Join us in building the most efficient, AI-powered mental healthcare system. We’re a YC-backed company revolutionizing telepsychiatry—...
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Launch HN: Sift Dev (YC W25) – AI-Powered Datadog Alternative

ycombinator.com

Hi HN! We're Kaushik and Ishir. We’re building SiftDev (https://app.trysift.dev/docs), an intelligent logging tool that understands...
Hi HN! We're Kaushik and Ishir. We’re building SiftDev (https://app.trysift.dev/docs), an intelligent logging tool that understands your observability data in real time, automatically identifies anomalies, and lets you interact with your logs through natural language queries. Here’s a demo video: https://www.youtube...
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The strange story of Britain’s oldest sweet (2019)

bbc.com

Mike MacEacheranFeatures correspondentMike MacEacheranThe Oldest Sweet Shop in England sells liquorice coins known as Pontefract Cakes,...
Mike MacEacheranFeatures correspondentMike MacEacheranThe Oldest Sweet Shop in England sells liquorice coins known as Pontefract Cakes, which are said to be among the world’s oldest sweets (Credit: Mike MacEacheran)First created as a medicine, liquorice cakes have been eaten throughout the centuries – and are an unl...
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More mysterious DNS root query traffic from a large cloud/DNS operator (2022)

apnic.net

With so much traffic on the global Internet day after day, it’s not always easy to...
With so much traffic on the global Internet day after day, it’s not always easy to spot the occasional irregularity. After all, there are numerous layers of complexity that go into the serving of webpages, with multiple companies, agencies, and organizations each playing a role. That’s why when something does catch ...
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A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space

nature.com
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