💭 Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
A thought-provoking reflection from one of the internet’s pioneers, reckoning with how openness and innovation also enabled polarization. A sober meditation on technology’s human side.
A reflective essay mourning how the early ideals of the internet—once imagined as a borderless, unifying force—have instead fostered division and harm. The author admits misplaced optimism about human behavior in open systems and the unforeseen consequences of technological idealism.
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⚡ TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models
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🌌 High Schooler Discovers 1.5M New Astronomical Objects with AI
An inspiring case of how accessible AI and data science tools are enabling young researchers to make real scientific discoveries using massive open datasets.
Eighteen-year-old Matteo Paz created an AI algorithm that discovered 1.5 million potential new astronomical objects by analyzing NASA’s NEOWISE data. His model processed 200 billion data points to detect variable infrared signals, uncovering supernovas, black holes, and binary star systems. The work earned him the top prize at the 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search, and his dataset, VarWISE, is now being used by Caltech astronomers for further research.
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📐 Ancient Greek Geometry
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