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> The adult brain has three main regions: the forebrain, midbrain and… more
> Most birds of prey are loners. They might form huge flocks during migration,… more
> That’s the promise of modern genomics: introducing speed, precision, and the… more
> The researchers wondered if Evo could pick up these rules on its own. Instead… more
> “CapuchinAI” integrates a compact, battery-powered computing system into a… more
> I regret to inform you that a team of researchers, writing in a yet-to-be… more
> Sperm whales are the only whale known to rest vertically. It’s thought to… more
> In the 1960s, fishing surveyors off West Africa’s Benin coast hauled up heads… more
> Researchers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley report developing… more
> To check whether this behavior was more widespread, Ms. Van Belle and her… more
> For the very first time, biologists packed nonliving components into a… more
> Laughter is an important, universal form of human non-linguistic vocal… more
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> The Colorado River existed in western Colorado 11 million years ago and first… more
> The submission to MPC comprises approximately one million observations, taken… more
> Although eDNA is already collected routinely from water, snow and soil, to… more
> One way to tell GiveDirectly’s story is thus as a bellwether for… more
> The robotic platform at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg,… more
> Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) has released two landmark… more
> Heartbroken when his fur-baby was diagnosed with a deadly mast cell cancer in… more
> In many regions across the United States, soil phosphorus levels are now far… more
> In a two-year-long citywide experiment in Singapore, researchers divided… more
> In 1994, scientists didn’t know enough about those microscopic details to… more
> "Our radiation-hydrodynamic simulations track both how gas falls onto the… more
> Concentrations of Pb in human hair from the Salt Lake City region population… more
> New research may have solved an American mystery which has baffled geologists… more
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> Goodhart wasn’t talking in general about it being a bad idea to have targets.… more
> There has been a flurry of discussion on missing heritability over the past… more
> A common childhood virus appears to be the trigger for the autoimmune disease… more
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> The Pteronotus parnellii bat (Parnell's mustached bat) harbored the BRZ… more
> During sleep, the cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain helps to remove… more
> The organoids also released some of the same hormones as true kidneys. And… more
> In every other game, you can at least pretend the losers are going to be… more
> [W]e are pleased to announce that with Gauss, we have completed the project… more
> In the new study, the team devised a system to continually and rapidly… more
Here's a rather verbose series of blog posts that's intended to introduce… more
> In August 2022, three researchers at Khan Academy, a popular math practice… more
> Clocking in at over 10 million degrees, the filament contains around 10 times… more
> This bias-variance decomposition is always true for the squared loss. It’s… more
I linked to the table of contents for this series of blog posts by Ben Recht, a… more
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> A mysterious “cyber incident” at a National Science Foundation (NSF) center… more
> If we want to do rationality better, it will probably help to understand how… more