Kid has an English assignment, where school has kids first submit essay to an "AI checker." Kid did not use AI. AI checker says the use of the word "devoid" magically turned essay into 18% AI written. Changing "devoid" makes it drop to 0%. We're spending time "un-AI-ing" an essay that has no AI.
Enjoyed reading this article about Darwin’s interests in biological rhythms, by Tiago de Andrade and Andrew Beale #chronobiologyacademic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Abstract. While the formalization of chronobiology as a scientific discipline occurred in the mid-20th century, the exploration of rhythmic phenomena has a
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‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything: “The capitalism of today has produced a global, digital ghost mall, filled with botshit, crap gadgets from companies with consonant-heavy brand names and cryptocurrency scams.”
The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?
In actuality, science is less about the romanticization of savantism and more about being fairly good at something and gradually building expertise overtime through trial and error. It takes practice humility, and patience to become good at science, and we all have to go through it.
Ezra Klein is basically right here. Gen Z is reacting to the only Israel they’ve ever known, and it’s a Bibi-led Israel that makes no bones about its anti-democratic and anti-Palestinian commitments. That, more than anything, is driving the shift in generational attitudes.
Israel is losing the support of a generation, not just a few student groups. And it is losing it because of what it does, not what it is.
The US embassy in London has weighed in on the controversy created by a US scientist's suggestion that tea needs a pinch of salt.
Great news from the EU Parliament today. One step closer to allowing European agriculture to sustainably reap the benefits of modern technologies like CRISPR! www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
To make our food system more sustainable and resilient, MEPs support new rules for some NGT plants, but those not equivalent to conventional plants must follow stricter rules.
"We are not any smarter, kinder, wiser, or more moral than people who lived ninety years ago. We are just as likely to needlessly give up our political power and to remain willfully ignorant of darkness as it’s dawning. But we know something they didn’t know: we know that the Holocaust is possible."
I’m not arguing that because other people have made the same comparison I have, I am right. What I am trying to do is add a time dimension to this conversation. What struck me about this comparison ...