PhD supervisor: What's wrong with your data? Mum: What's wrong with you? Therapist: What's wrong with your life? Predatory journals: Dear Eminent Professor,

The speed at which a virus spreads depends on: 1. How dense the population is 2. How dense the population is

Within two years you'll be able to prompt inject an entire country

You take notes in meetings because you think you'll remember more. Princeton and UCLA proved the opposite. Laptop note-takers wrote down 65% more words than longhand note-takers. They also scored significantly worse on understanding questions. A week later — with their own

The paper is called "The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard." Pam Mueller (Princeton) and Daniel Oppenheimer (UCLA), published in Psychological Science, 2014. Three studies. 325 participants. The result was so counterintuitive it became one of the most cited cognitive-science

LISTENING IN: Privacy Researcher Finds Anthropic’s Claude Desktop App Installs Undisclosed Native Messaging Bridge DO YOU HEAR ME NOW? A detailed technical analysis published by privacy and security researcher Alexander Hanff has raised serious concerns about Anthropic’s Claude

One in five student interactions with generative A.I. “involved cheating, self-harm, bullying, and other problematic behaviors,” according to a report published by Education Week. Why is the technology being adopted by schools? newyorker.com/culture/progre…

If you think you’ve had a bad day, my 9 year old came home from school with a trumpet.

Modern problems require modern solutions.

Why does WAtoday push advertisements for joining a foreign military which is illegal for Australians?

I still think the best thing I've heard this year is "he has a different way of doing percentages". You can't have a 'different way of doing percentages' - the mathematical definition is literally in the word: per cent, per hundred. If it's not per cent, then it's not percent.

I knew this was coming. We are so f*cked - fake and real now look the same. We desperately need tools to show journals and researchers that data is real, not AI-generated.

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The web is disappearing 🕳️ According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible. But that’s not the whole story. In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine

Science is about to get absolutely nuked. Unless we get extremely strict about providing and opening up code and data and documenting lab experiments rigorously, a torrent of credible-looking but fraudulent papers is upon us.

THE MAN THEY CALLED A NUTTER JUST GOT A KNIGHTHOOD In 2003, the Post Office fired Alan Bates from his small branch in Llandudno, Wales. The reason? He refused to repay £1,200 that the Horizon computer system had invented out of thin air. He invested £65,000 in that post office.

4 weeks later the Upside app still fails regulary #UI #fail

Perhaps Apple could go back to fixing UX faults now that Tim Cook moved on. Flattening the iOS Safari bookmark hierarchy created an absolute mess. 10 taps to save a bookmark? Seriously? Way to push customers to Firefox 🔥