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Quantitativity on the number of rational points in the Mordell conjecture
#HackerNews #Quantitativity #MordellConjecture #RationalPoints #MathBreakthrough #ScientificAmerican
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First-ever flexible #ToolUse seen in a #cow suggests livestock are smarter than believed | #ScientificAmerican https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-ever-flexible-tool-use-seen-in-a-cow-suggests-livestock-are-smarter/ #science #animal #intelligence
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A classic graphic comparing #animallocomotion, updated for #ScientificAmerican’s 180th anniversary, reveals that #bicycles make #humans some of the most #energyefficient #landtravellers. While humans aren’t streamlined like fish, bicycles allow us to glide and minimise energy expenditure, similar to swimming. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-human-on-a-bicycle-is-among-the-most-efficient-forms-of-travel-in-the/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Seemingly #HarmlessPhotos could be used to hack #AIAgents https://zorz.it/pQALt | #PesalaBandara #hacker #CyberThreat #MaliciousCommands #OpenAI #ChatGPTAIAgent #ScientificAmerican #vulnerability
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A Scientific American bolt puzzle — https://leancrew.com/all-this/2025/03/a-sciam-bolt-puzzle/
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A Scientific American bolt puzzle — https://leancrew.com/all-this/2025/03/a-sciam-bolt-puzzle/
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A Scientific American bolt puzzle — https://leancrew.com/all-this/2025/03/a-sciam-bolt-puzzle/
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A Scientific American bolt puzzle — https://leancrew.com/all-this/2025/03/a-sciam-bolt-puzzle/
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#ScientificAmerican: In the Quantum Realm, Time’s Arrow Might Fly in Two Directions.❛❛ the researchers’ work suggests that two time’s arrows, rather than one, are a spontaneous feature of an open #quantum system.
The new work adds to some interesting questions about what #physicists deem relevant in their #studies of #time. ❜❜
🔗 https://www.ScientificAmerican.com/article/does-time-work-differently-in-the-quantum-realm/ 2025 Feb 27
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time#Community #TimeTravel #Research #arrowoftime #physics #science #cosmology #Kronodon
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I was greatly inspired by Martin Gardner's "#Mathematical Circus - More #Games, #Puzzles, Paradoxes, & Other Mathematical Entertainments from Scientific American"
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"What Is the #Maillard #Reaction? - Instant Egghead #44" by #ScientificAmerican
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Update. #JohnHorgan, past staff writer for #ScientificAmerican, writes an appreciation of @laurahelmuth.
"Will the next editor of Scientific American have the guts to challenge #Trump and his minions? Will anyone?"
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You're simply great, Laura! Scientific American was getting better and better.
Good luck!
Thanks for being here!
#Science #ScienceMastodon #ScientificAmerican #ScienceWriting
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So trivial and yet somehow quite cool: The first #Spektrum (#ScientificAmerican) article to report on its own work.
https://www.spektrum.de/news/sepsis-fataler-amoklauf-des-immunsystems/2225505
For all those who want to know (without a paywall) what our #Sepsis early detection AI is all about, I recommend our homepage: https://www.uniklinikum-leipzig.de/einrichtungen/ampel/en/models/sepsis
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@kofanchen FYI here's the full citation and link to article (Sep 2017 issue) with this #WomenInDataviz #dataViz of the complexities of human biological sex:
Montañez, A. (2017). Beyond XX and XY: The extraordinary complexity of sex determination. #ScientificAmerican, 317(3), 50. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0917-50
#wayback_machine archived snapshot of article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240421151029/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyond-xx-and-xy-the-extraordinary-complexity-of-sex-determination -
They don't know what the single trident-shaped tooth is for?
OBVIOUSLY- it's for pokety-pokety. Sheesh! Scientific American needs more editorial help from THIS citizen-scientist.
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"In June a notice posted on the website of the journal Nature set a new scientific record. It withdrew what is now the most highly cited research paper ever to be retracted."
HT Retraction Watch
#PublicationEthics #NatureMagazine #SpringerNature #ScientificAmerican #ResearchIntegrity #Retractions #StemCells #StemCellScience #AdultStemCell #CatherineVerfaillie #UniversityOfMinnesota #BoneMarrow #HighImpact #PeterAldhous
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I spoke to Chris Stokel-Walker for Scientific American about whether researchers can use generative AI, especially large language models, to replace human participants.
My short answer: no. My long answer:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-ai-replace-human-research-participants-these-scientists-see-risks/#LargeLanguageModels #ScientificAmerican #ChrisStokelWalker #GenerativeAI #LLMs #HumanResearch #SyntheticData #SyntheticDataGeneration #SimulatedData #DataSimulation #AItools #AIinResearch #ResearchTools #ResearchMethods #AcademicMastodon #ResearchEthics
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I spoke to Chris Stokel-Walker for Scientific American about whether researchers can use generative AI, especially large language models, to replace human participants.
My short answer: no. My long answer:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-ai-replace-human-research-participants-these-scientists-see-risks/#LargeLanguageModels #ScientificAmerican #ChrisStokelWalker #GenerativeAI #LLMs #HumanResearch #SyntheticData #SyntheticDataGeneration #SimulatedData #DataSimulation #AItools #AIinResearch #ResearchTools #ResearchMethods #AcademicMastodon #ResearchEthics
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I spoke to Chris Stokel-Walker for Scientific American about whether researchers can use generative AI, especially large language models, to replace human participants.
My short answer: no. My long answer:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-ai-replace-human-research-participants-these-scientists-see-risks/#LargeLanguageModels #ScientificAmerican #ChrisStokelWalker #GenerativeAI #LLMs #HumanResearch #SyntheticData #SyntheticDataGeneration #SimulatedData #DataSimulation #AItools #AIinResearch #ResearchTools #ResearchMethods #AcademicMastodon #ResearchEthics
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I spoke to Chris Stokel-Walker for Scientific American about whether researchers can use generative AI, especially large language models, to replace human participants.
My short answer: no. My long answer:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-ai-replace-human-research-participants-these-scientists-see-risks/#LargeLanguageModels #ScientificAmerican #ChrisStokelWalker #GenerativeAI #LLMs #HumanResearch #SyntheticData #SyntheticDataGeneration #SimulatedData #DataSimulation #AItools #AIinResearch #ResearchTools #ResearchMethods #AcademicMastodon #ResearchEthics
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I spoke to Chris Stokel-Walker for Scientific American about whether researchers can use generative AI, especially large language models, to replace human participants.
My short answer: no. My long answer:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-ai-replace-human-research-participants-these-scientists-see-risks/#LargeLanguageModels #ScientificAmerican #ChrisStokelWalker #GenerativeAI #LLMs #HumanResearch #SyntheticData #SyntheticDataGeneration #SimulatedData #DataSimulation #AItools #AIinResearch #ResearchTools #ResearchMethods #AcademicMastodon #ResearchEthics
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Monty McGovern, University of Washington, via #ScientificAmerican (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/these-are-the-most-beautiful-equations-in-mathematics)
Making my head hurt (in all the ways that do it good) this morning:
"My favorite equation is (1/p) + (1/q) + (1/r) = 1. Its only solutions in positive integers are p = q = r = 3; p = 2, q = r = 4; and p = 2, q = 3, r = 6. This equation pertains to a beautiful class of groups called Coxeter, or reflection, groups and marks the crucial boundary between finite and infinite groups of this kind. Its solutions are intimately related to the only ways of tiling the plane by regular polygons, namely by equilateral triangles, squares or hexagons."
Small thought, is there a (not #group-heavy) link between dividing 1 into parts and #Golomb Rulers?
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Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded | U.S. journalism needs to be treated as a “public good” like roads, schools and bridges
#ScientificAmerican #JournalismPublicGood #PubliclyFunded #USJournalism #PublicGood #FundingForJournalism #Politics #News
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Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded | U.S. journalism needs to be treated as a “public good” like roads, schools and bridges
#ScientificAmerican #JournalismPublicGood #PubliclyFunded #USJournalism #PublicGood #FundingForJournalism #Politics #News
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Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded | U.S. journalism needs to be treated as a “public good” like roads, schools and bridges
#ScientificAmerican #JournalismPublicGood #PubliclyFunded #USJournalism #PublicGood #FundingForJournalism #Politics #News
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Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded | U.S. journalism needs to be treated as a “public good” like roads, schools and bridges
#ScientificAmerican #JournalismPublicGood #PubliclyFunded #USJournalism #PublicGood #FundingForJournalism #Politics #News
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Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded | U.S. journalism needs to be treated as a “public good” like roads, schools and bridges
#ScientificAmerican #JournalismPublicGood #PubliclyFunded #USJournalism #PublicGood #FundingForJournalism #Politics #News
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On a related issue, Magda Mostafa was interviewed for a recent #ScientificAmerican article on #OpenPlan #office design:
“You #design better for the #center when you learn from the #margins,” says Magda Mostafa of the American University in Cairo, an architect who focuses on design for #autism.
Fixing the Hated Open-Design Office - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fixing-the-hated-open-design-office/
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#ScientificAmerican 📆 November 25, 2022 Stephen Cohen has been working on #SpaceElevators 🚠 for almost 20 years. He believes they will exist soon— in two or three decades. To build it, we need a #material whose specific strength 💪 is about 50 times higher than #steel https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-elevators-are-less-sci-fi-than-you-think
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#ScientificAmerican 📆 November 25, 2022 Stephen Cohen has been working on #SpaceElevators 🚠 for almost 20 years. He believes they will exist soon— in two or three decades. To build it, we need a #material whose specific strength 💪 is about 50 times higher than #steel https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-elevators-are-less-sci-fi-than-you-think
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#ScientificAmerican 📆 November 25, 2022 Stephen Cohen has been working on #SpaceElevators 🚠 for almost 20 years. He believes they will exist soon— in two or three decades. To build it, we need a #material whose specific strength 💪 is about 50 times higher than #steel https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-elevators-are-less-sci-fi-than-you-think
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#ScientificAmerican 📆 November 25, 2022 Stephen Cohen has been working on #SpaceElevators 🚠 for almost 20 years. He believes they will exist soon— in two or three decades. To build it, we need a #material whose specific strength 💪 is about 50 times higher than #steel https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-elevators-are-less-sci-fi-than-you-think
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#ScientificAmerican 📆 November 25, 2022 Stephen Cohen has been working on #SpaceElevators 🚠 for almost 20 years. He believes they will exist soon— in two or three decades. To build it, we need a #material whose specific strength 💪 is about 50 times higher than #steel https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-elevators-are-less-sci-fi-than-you-think
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When my company moved us from private offices to an #OpenPlan, they surveyed us about our workflow and needs. Then we discovered they’d already built out the space; the consultation process was a sham. This is common, as I write in #ScientificAmerican. A major insight from #InclusiveDesign, #DisabilityRights, and #DeafSpace is that people should be meaningfully involved in designing their physical environment. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fixing-the-hated-open-design-office/
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#autism #diagnosisbias #sexbias #brainscans
@genderscilab
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This #ScientificAmerican article on #moralinjury is fascinating. Feels like something that, even out side of a medical provider context, lots of people are struggling with as our #safetynets and #socialcontract are undermined by #rightwing nut jobs. Nothing feels stable, everything seems to be damaged and it’s overwhelming to try to make a difference…
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My morning reads . . .
#science #ScientificAmerican #SkepticalInquirer #skeptic -
#Introduction
I am a #composer/ #musician and write various kinds of music. I would love it to have a greater impact but, for now, I do it because I enjoy it and others can as well.I am a #skeptic, #humanist, #freethinker, #criticalthinker, lover of #science, read #ScientificAmerican (just because), and believe that people make the best decisions based on the information available. And . . . the better person can change their mind when presented with compelling contradictory information.
