2026-07-05
Probing the loss-band sparsity assumption in Scientist AI
Epistemic status: ~1 hour of compute on a T4. Note that I just tried with one model, and one subspace. The volume finding seems solid; the curvature finding is suggestive...
Book Review: The God Test
Book review: The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning, by Robert Wright.Some AI doomers talk about AI becoming god-like. Robert Wright goes further, telling us that the...
Swarm of Cyborg Remote Controlled Cockroaches Gains New Power
Cyborg roaches are a thing, and soon there'll be nowhere they can't reach. The post Swarm of Cyborg Remote Controlled Cockroaches Gains New Power appeared first on Futurism.
Ocarina of Time's most underrated character deserves more appreciation
We should be praising Ocarina of Time's helpful fairy instead of turning her into memes.
NASA Has Not Launched Anything Faster Than Voyager in 48 Years. Here Is the Real Menu of Machines That Could Finally Beat It
Voyager 1 is about to become the first object one light-day from Earth, still whispering home on a plutonium supply the size of a car battery. Nothing humanity has built...
Marvel Rivals players suspect Captain America's summer sausage has already been downsized
On the fourth of July, no less.
We need 3rd party Training-Run Assessments
Training-run assessments conducted by a 3rd party should become a standard part of frontier AI safety.By a Training-Run Assessment, or TRA, I mean an in-depth analysis of the post-training pipeline...
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners studio teases more Delicious in Dungeon, new project from Promare's creators
A second season of Delicious in Dungeon and a new project from Kill la Kill and Promare creators Hiroyuki Imaishi and Kazuki Nakashima are on the way
Telltale's Game of Thrones is the only game to match HBO's intensity
House of the Dragon viewers wanting more Game of Thrones in their life should look to Telltale's choice-based, episodic adventure from 2014.
The U.S. Tried to Sneak Two F-117 Stealth Jets Through Neutral Austria — a 1950s Swedish Fighter Caught Them
Too many registrations on the flight plan, ten minutes in Austrian airspace, and photos on a security council's table a week later. The F-117 was never perfect.
Terraforming Venus means removing 90 Earth atmospheres of carbon dioxide, cooling a planet that melts lead, and importing an ocean — the newest NASA idea skips all of it
Venus crushes, roasts, and corrodes anything that touches it, and it has almost no water. But fifty kilometers up, the pressure matches Earth's — and ordinary breathable air floats there...
Huge Survey Finds the Truth About What mRNA Vaccines Do to the Human Body
"After billions of doses, we now have an extraordinary amount of scientific evidence." The post Huge Survey Finds the Truth About What mRNA Vaccines Do to the Human Body appeared...
MFA-optional banks leave safe doors (and accounts) wide open for thieves to pillage
Financial institutions are putting their clients at risk in the name of convenience.
Doctor Who's best companion pairing wasn't a love story like fans think
The Doctor has had many great companions throughout the years, but this particular pairing stands head and shoulders above the rest.
Hasbro should stop looking for a Baldur's Gate 4 studio and take a leaf out of Larian's book by trying something new
Baldur's Gate has peaked, but D&D still has a lot to offer.
The Most Feared Missile of the Cold War Missed Every Shot America Fired in Anger — in 2024 the Navy Built One Again
The US Navy built the deadliest air-to-air missile of its era, fired it in anger three times, and hit nothing. The pilots who made it legendary flew for someone else...
Crimson Desert's latest update makes it worth it to play as Damiane and Oongka
Damiane and Oongka can now access the Abyss and equip more outfits following Pearl Abyss' latest update for Crimson Desert
Harry Potter and the Rules of Quidditch
Ron's face pulled into a scowl. "If you don't like Quidditch, you don't have to make fun of it!""If you can't criticise, you can't optimise. I'm suggesting how to improve...
Sweden Built Five Generations of Saab Fighters for a War That Never Came. Ukraine Just Bought the Newest for the War That Did
Four Cold War fighters wrote the playbook Ukraine just bought, and almost nobody outside Sweden remembers them. One went to war for the UN and never came home. One locked...
Boeing Lost the F-35 in 2001 — and the U.S. Air Force Designed the F-47 NGAD Specifically to Avoid What That Loss Created
In October 2001, Boeing lost the largest fighter program ever conceived and nearly lost the fighter business with it. For twenty-four years the company survived on airplanes another company designed,...
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