If anyone's still wondering whether vaccines were tested against placebo: Our living database now includes 1,267 controlled trials - 501 with inert (mostly saline) placebos - with 9.36M participants. And MANY more to add. Grateful to the incredible team making it possible. 🙏

I'm thrilled to announce the definitive course on Claude Code, created with Anthropic and taught by Elie Schoppik Elie Schoppik. If you want to use highly agentic coding - where AI works autonomously for many minutes or longer, not just completing code snippets - this is it.

Like everything ⁦John Burn-Murdoch⁩ makes, this chart is amazing. The sharp decline in conscientiousness and rise in neuroticism among young people is astonishing. But also of note: literally every age group has gotten less extroverted in the age of the smartphone

Derek Thompson John Burn-Murdoch This is what happens when the media is hijacked by click-seeking content marketers instead of journalists. They exploit the basic human bias towards negative emotions to get our attention. x.com/credistick/sta…

We launched a Claude Code learning mode! Claude Code not only makes you more productive, but can now also help you get better at coding. Whether you're a CS student or seasoned programmer, it will push you to think deeper about the code you're generating.

I am (slowly) re-reading the Tolkien legendarium (of which Lord of the Rings is a small part). The whole body of work is so incredible and there's nothing else like it... it dilutes other worlds of fiction. Wait - your story doesn't have a comprehensive history/mythology spanning

Today we're releasing NVIDIA Nemotron Nano v2 - a 9B hybrid SSM that is 6X faster than similarly sized models, while also being more accurate. Along with this model, we are also releasing most of the data we used to create it, including the pretraining corpus. Links to the

Pure meritocracy sounds nice untill you realize the entire purpose of elite colleges is to mix rich kids with smart kids so the rich kids seem smarter and the smart kids seem richer

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

Introducing Asta—our bold initiative to accelerate science with trustworthy, capable agents, benchmarks, & developer resources that bring clarity to the landscape of scientific AI + agents. 🧵