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Studies with promising early results like these, such as the tooth-regeneration study that is expected to complete its Phase I trial soon, really give me hope for being able to gro…

After playing the game for 10+ hours and dropping it out of sheer frustration, I came to the conclusion that I must have been playing a vastly different game than the people praisi…

While I still mainly use Google to search for terms online, I am increasingly using the free version of Perplexity for more advanced topics or general questions. Perplexity is an L…

I personally believe the reason for non-western fiction gaining so much mainstream traction is quite simple: it provides a perspective almost entirely seperated from the reality mo…

The author states that AI safety is very important, that many experts think it is very important and that even governments consider it to be very important, but there is no mention…

It is quite amusing to read this essay 8 years after it has been published, now that we know about the similarities of how large language models (LLMs) and the human brain function…

I fully agree with the author on that text editing is nothing but cumbersome. But instead of modifying and (hopefully) improving on what we have now, I would actually prefer an ent…

My point is that expecting time-pressed students to ignore freely available answer sheets is like expecting a hungry horse to ignore a carrot dangling in front of them. There is no…

While I've always had a negative outlook on the modern school system due to my own experiences, I fail to see how the answer to the title could be anything but "yes". I've seen thi…

I am not waving away all other factors, I am merely stating that the difference of mental development between girls and boys is, at least to me, quite obviously the largest by far.…

Isn't the answer extremely obvious? Girls grow up faster than boys, while boys have a longer growing period that extends further (or is equal to) than the schooling period. I'd be …