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He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art
Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are fundamentally broken — but not unfixable. The post He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art first appeared on Quanta Magazine
From Quanta Magazine
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and artists streamed transient images into dark interior spaces with the help of a camera obscura. Julie Park explores the early modern fascination with this quasi-spiritual technology and the magic, melancholy, and…
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Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worlds
Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a *Tyrannosaurus rex*, Louis Pope Gratacap’s *The New Northland* (1915) is at once kaleidoscopic, mischievous, fascinating — and exhausting. Richard Fallon explores this “lost world” novel, finding a work as interested in cutting-edge science as it was…
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Kelvin P. Idanwekhai
I'm interested in Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning, Brains, Computational Chemistry, Social and Post-modern Issues.
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Science is fun. Science is when you do an experiment with participants, and then talk with a…
Science is fun. Science is when you do an experiment with participants, and then talk with a participant afterwards, and learn that yeah, actually, doctors are not supposed to give you propophol as a general anesthetic if you have a soy allergy. Which is really good to fucking know. Which is why I…
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Eastbourne – Perhaps the ultimate damnation of Met Office (lack of) standards.
Image from Google StreetView August 2024 looking directly in the direction of the Eastbourne Stevenson Screen from 13 metres/ 44 feet distance. Tims Channon’s original review of Eastbourne was the longest and most detailed of all those he published. It pre-dated the relocation of the screen to its…
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A Macro Journey Underwater Reveals the Radiant Geometries of Coral
Filmmaker Sandro Bocci brings us up close with coral reefs and their striking array of color, texture, and pattern. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article A Macro Journey…
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Witnessory – a signed record of the web's move to post-quantum crypto
58.9% of the top 10,000 sites negotiate post-quantum TLS; 51.3% of SSH servers offer post-quantum key exchange. As of 2026-10-29, from 4 probes; signed readings, recomputable.
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Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours
A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook.
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Quantum
Quantum’s (a.k.a. Guanzhong Chen) blog about coding, security, and other computer technology.
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras is an open/citizen science activist and researcher with a background in biology and bioinformatics. He worked as a senior researcher at The Alan Turing Institute and Inserm. In 2011, he founded openSNP. He was awarded a PhD in Bioinformatics in 2018. In 2017 he joined the…
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