2025-02-08
Elon Musk's Massive Rocket Explosion May Have Caused Significant Atmospheric Pollution
Collateral Damage When a multi-ton spacecraft blows up mid-air, it turns out that you can't just brush aside its environmental impact. Following the explosion of the upper stage of SpaceX's...
A New AI World
Illustration and Charts by Shira Seri LeviNo Mercy / No MaliceA hat tip here to Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong, who said on the Prof G Markets Podcast on Jan....
When a Man’s AI Girlfriend Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Its Creator Says It Was Working as Intended
Dark Turn Yet another AI companion company is facing concerns over its AI chatbots encouraging human users to engage with self-harm and even suicidal behavior. According to reporting from MIT...
Biohackers Say They Have Cracked the Code to Producing Healthier Babies
Personal genotyping can illuminate what you might be doing wrong in the fertility optimization department. This is NOT a replacement for a doctor’s guidance on your parenting journey. If your...
How 3D-Printed Sound Panels Can Absorb Noise More Efficiently
Researchers analyzed labyrinthine unit cells using a first-iteration Wunderlich curve design, modeling thermo-viscous losses to optimize sound absorption. By balancing energy leakage and structural losses, the study demonstrated how critical...
Paranoid Elon Musk Says That USAID Has Been Constructing a False Reality Around Us
Elon Musk is saying that USAID — and untold other regions of the American federal government — has constructed a false, "Truman Show"-esque reality around us. Keyword: saying. It means...
5 najgorszych broni średniowiecza
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II to wciągająca opowieść o zemście, odwadze i odkrywaniu. Wyrusz w niezwykłą podróż ze skromnej kuźni do królewskiego dworu już teraz na PC, PlayStation 5 lub Xbox...
Scientists Grow Living "Replacement Teeth" for Dental Implants
Like something out of "Little Shop of Horrors," scientists have managed to grow human-like teeth in a lab — and implant them inside a miniature pig's mouth. As the MIT...
Satellite Images Show China Building What Appears to Be a Huge Fusion Facility
GoldenEye In a move straight out of a Bond film, China seems to be building a massive laser-fired nuclear facility in Mianyang, a major science and research city in Sichuan...
The TechBeat: Your Chatbot Isn’t Reading Words—It’s Counting Tokens (2/8/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set...
Media Slant: Slant Contagion and Polarization
Here, we replicate Table 4, but instead of pre-FNC/MSNBC era newspaper endorsements, we distinguish observations by the county-level Republican vote share terciles
Are the Effects of Contagious Media Slant Driven by Supply or Demand?
A relevant question is whether the effects of contagious slant are driven by supply or demand – that is, a direct influence on news producers, or else theirs response to...
Researching Media Slant: Language Features and Topics
In Table C.14, re-run our main specification, but instead of bigram-based similarity with FNC, we regress vocabulary size (normalized by the total size of the corpus, column 1), average word...
Let's Take a Look at Fox News Channel's Viewership
In our quest to study media slant, let's take a look at Fox News Channel's viewership.
Senior Director at Meta, Salesforce - Big Tech Career Growth Case Study
Listen now (86 mins) | She’s led product teams in big tech. How did she land those roles, excel, and what can you learn to do the same? She’s going...
Cable News' Effects on Newspaper Content: A Deeper Insight
Taking a deeper look at Cable news's effect on newspaper content.
Email newsletters in the app almost working.
Email newsletters in the app almost working.
Media Slant Research: Newspaper-County Observations
Here, we replicate the baseline estimates but only consider newspaper-county observations where the county coincides with where the immediate owner of the newspaper is based.
Partnerships for Product Managers - follow up story
Using a partnership playbook
Media Slant: The Relationship Between the FNC Channel Position and Local Newspaper Content
Figure C.4 visualizes the reduced form relationship between the FNC channel position and local newspaper content similarity to FNC.
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