Miscellaneous Links #45

AI MatterGen: A new paradigm of materials design with generative AI The Product Lifecycle of Human Labor: Will humans become an idle resource? You are an absolute moron for believing in the hype of “AI Agents”. 25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes Game developers […]

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AI

MatterGen: A new paradigm of materials design with generative AI

The Product Lifecycle of Human Labor: Will humans become an idle resource?

You are an absolute moron for believing in the hype of “AI Agents”.

25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI

AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes

Game developers still aren’t warming up to generative AI: Developers do not in fact welcome our new AI overlords

Robotics

‘Not wasting time’: Local law enforcement to launch new ‘drone first responders’ program

Nasa’s Perseverance rover spots shocking ‘green spots’ on Mars

RIC Technology debuts robotic 3D printer that can print up to 3 stories high

CogSci

Predicting Human Brain States with Transformer

Tech

How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?

What Went Wrong With Germany’s Insane Hover Transport?

Decentralized Syndication — The Missing Internet Protocol

Foldable Smartphones: New Devices, New Opportunities

Computer Cousins: The Atari ST and DOS PCs

Creative Computing Magazine Interviews Clive Sinclair (1980)

UI is hell: four-function calculators

Creating a highly-integrated open-source laptop from scratch.

FFmpeg By Example

Health

Eating soft plastic to lose weight

Why is asbestos so much more dangerous than other ‘sharp’ dusts like fibreglass?

More

Think all bees are vegetarians? Strange reasons some eat meat

Effects of the Quantum Vacuum at a Cosmic Scale and of Dark Energy

Star Trek’s Warp Drive Leads to New Physics

The Many Sackings of Rome — Eight Times the Eternal City Was Captured and Pillaged

Potoooooooo

Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

417-Megapixel Andromeda Galaxy Panorama

The Story of Shellac

David Lynch painting in his studio