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Some DeepMind researchers used mechanistic interpretability techniques to find concepts in AlphaZero and teach them to human chess Grandmasters: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Another appropriate analogy would be be HeLa / Henrietta Lacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa

I built a website for comparing satellite images from ESA Copernicus Sentinel-2 of Southern California from before and during the January 2025 wildfires. The extent of the damage t…

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2024-economic-we... > When faced with a hypothetical expense of $400, 63 percent of all adults in 2023 said they would have covered it e…

Thanks for link; this post is indeed a dupe of that one.

Note that OP of the tweet has since successfully got their Facebook profile unblocked: https://twitter.com/KikiDoodleTweet/status/14064498487699415...

Add musician Jonathan Coulton to that list: makes ~$500,000 a year without having ever signed on to a major label.

This is a good lesson for everyone who builds online communities: Some design decisions that are acceptable to the majority, like the real-name policy, harm groups of people who ar…

The Kelvin problem: what is the optimum way to partition 3D space into identical cells, such that the surface area between them is minimized? Lord Kelvin conjectured that the Kelvi…

Maybe. One of TED's purposes is to bring together people with ideas and people with the capital and influence to make them happen.

You need to massage your data to get more meaningful results. It might be interesting to compare your word counts with the word counts from a general-purpose word corpus, then pick…

World of Goo, another excellent indie game, also reported a 90% piracy rate two years ago. The developers calculated that percentage from the number of users on their high score bo…

My hunch says that this is a culture-specific study. The findings might break down in some Asian cultures, especially those in which it is polite to speak highly of everyone, regar…

Given the nature of this community, if HN runs ads, I'd expect to see links to user-made alternate front-ends and ad-blocking extensions, right on the same page.

Similar thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1518619 Start by helping software projects that you already use. You will have personal insight as to where the bugs are.