Recent neuroscience research suggests that traveling electrical waves in the brain are far more complex and functionally important than previously believed. Traditionally observed as simple planar osc
The Pangram Backlash Unfolding on College Campuses
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
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Four years after ChatGPT’s release, colleges remain uncertain how to address AI-assisted cheating. Timothy Paustian, a University of Wisconsin biology professor, used hidden prompts and AI detectors t
Does vitriol make you feel special?
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IRREGULARCHAT MODS
Aug 17
A new study in *PNAS* argues that social media negativity is driven not only by attention-seeking algorithms, but also by a psychological motive called differentiation: the desire to stand out from ot
The paper explores whether long text can be compressed by converting it into an image and feeding that image to a multimodal LLM instead of sending all text tokens directly. The key idea is that visio
AI in Science Research Boosts Speed, Limits Scope
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IrregularChat: Research/PAI
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A new analysis of more than 40 million academic papers suggests that AI tools are reshaping science in two opposing ways. On the one hand, researchers who use AI publish more papers, earn more citatio