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Coding harnesses shape how autonomous coding agents translate model capabilities into long-horizon software-engineering performance, yet existing work typically evaluates harnesses as monolithic systems, leaving the…
A review of nearly 200 studies on how artificial intelligence reveals we know very little about how AI use impacts younger school children.
Community platforms face a critical challenge at launch: achieving sustainable engagement without...
EVs with 90,000 to 120,000 miles on the clock are more likely to pass MOTs than petrol models of the same age
New study finds cars send driver data to Big Tech companies, including locations, VINs, and other identifiers.
TL;DR: We study the scaling laws of data weighting across in-house and open-weight LMs, finding non-monotonic behavior across scales. We vary the weight assi...
Alzheimer's disease is starting to be considered as a treatable and preventable condition, a major new report says.
Turn PDFs, lectures and class notes into study notes, flashcards, quizzes and practice exams. Nuros ARC brings weak concepts back for review. Start free.
First, you want to form a habit. Second, you want to operate at peak productivity during your session. Third, you want to minimize the amount you forget between sessions.
Short story about ‘The Institute of September the Thirtieth’, dedicated to the study of a single day in 1939, in the form of a review of a fictional book.
Artificial intelligence offers an unprecedented opportunity to augment human capabilities, yet progress at the frontier has focused primarily on advancing model capabilities. We introduce StudentBench, a suite of AI…
Smarter cars could be the smartest way to fix traffic congestion
Data on millions of cars in the UK shows electric cars last longer than petrol cars, and the reliability gap gets bigger at higher mileages.
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A live look at 267 headphones and IEMs: reviewers disagree about treble far more than anything else, paying more doesn’t help, and fit often seems to be the reason.
TL;DR: We study the scaling laws of data weighting across in-house and open-weight LMs, finding non-monotonic behavior across scales. We vary the weight assi...
TL;DR: We study the scaling laws of data weighting across in-house and open-weight LMs, finding non-monotonic behavior across scales. We vary the weight assi...
Kids who blink more often show stronger mental flexibility and a distinct pattern of prefrontal brain activity, even after adjusting for age.
Guess the country from its statistics, then go and study the world map.
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A university study trying to create a better kombucha analyses whether the drink affects health.
In news that should surprise very few, connected cars remain a complete privacy nightmare. But now we have a better idea of what data those cars are giving away, and to whom, thanks to a study conducted by a team of researchers at Northeastern University and Consumer Reports . Testing 21 cars from 19 different brands revealed patterns of traffic to advertisers and trackers, as well as data shared with Big Tech firms like Microsoft and Adobe. And using a car’s companion app can multiply the problem, their testing found. In 2023, the Mozilla Foundation published a widely covered report looking at the privacy policies of more than two dozen automakers. They were appalled, writing that “cars are the worst product category we have ever reviewed for privacy.” But that analysis was conducted by sitting down and reading all the various privacy policies of each brand; today’s study involved measuring traffic from actual cars under a number of scenarios, including idling and being driven. The researchers even parked 11 cars—just the electric ones—in a Faraday tent to see if the loss of a cellular signal would push that traffic to the car’s Wi-Fi connection instead. Attempts to actually see what was in the data packets using modified certificates failed in every case. But “the network traces still yielded valuable information, including the domains contacted via DNS traffic, Server Name Indication (SNI) in TLS handshakes, the volume and timing of transmissions, and differences in behavior across experimental scenarios,” they found. Read full article Comments
Last month, we shared word of a Stanford study that found entry-level employment in so-called "AI-impacted" occupations lagging well behind that in other fields. Now, a new working paper from economics researchers at Munich's CESifo finds the opposite, arguing point blank that "there is no evidence of any significant, widespread displacement or reduction in hiring of recent college graduates in absolute or relative levels." In " The Early Impacts of AI on Employment Among Recent College Graduates ," researchers Robert Fairlie and Jane Wu said they decided to focus on recent graduates "because changes in labor demand may first appear through reductions in hiring." As AI gets good enough to at least perform the "relatively standardized tasks" in many entry-level office jobs, they argue, firms could reduce new hiring for simpler roles rather than laying off more experienced long-term employees. There's some reason to believe 2026's graduating job seekers might be more at risk of AI displacement than those graduating just a year or two prior. The CESifo researchers point to a recent sharp increase in the number of firms "replacing a large number of employee tasks with AI" in a Census survey, as well as broad increases in AI spending per employee and ChatGPT Enterprise token use in the last 12 months. Read full article Comments