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Terence Tao on the paradox of solving mathematical problems
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (168+ words) Mathematician Terence Tao, a 2006 Fields Medal winner and professor at UCLA, discusses with Big Think solving problems with AI and the process of finding solutions without. By using AI to effectively skip over the mistakes, challenges, and learning towards a…...
Trustworthy data visualization
2+ week, 6+ day ago (138+ words) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpj-zqkiiXQ Kieran Healy, a professor of sociology at Duke University, gives an enjoyable lecture on the limits of trust in data visualization. We were already approaching a place where people could say what they wanted with charts, regardless of what…...
Maintaining a vibe-coded internet
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (103+ words) The internet runs on a foundation of open-source software, but codebases, the learning process, and project maintenance grows more muddled as it gets easier to produce code without knowing what any of it means. For the Financial Times, Sam Learner…...
Bot traffic surpasses human traffic
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (109+ words) Traffic has been rising extra quickly these past couple of years. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view) it’s mostly from automated AI bots scraping all they can get. From Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare: Welp, that…...
What LLM speed looks like when generating output
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (110+ words) LLM speed is commonly expressed as tokens per second, which is kind of meaningless for the uninitiated. Mike Veerman made a more intuitive view for what various speeds look like. More tokens per second means faster generation, which you can…...
Book about future of truth contains generated quotes
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (108+ words) Steven Rosenbaum wrote The Future of Truth, a book about AI and reality that was published this month. It has generated and misattributed quotes throughout. Benjamin Mullin reports for the New York Times: When asked about the quote, Ms. Swisher…...
Poor geometry in deepfake images
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (132+ words) Science profiled Hany Farid, a researcher in digital forensics at the University of California, Berkeley. An interesting guide in the middle shows how simple geometry can expose a fake image. For example, in the generated image above, the lines connecting…...
Restraint in the visualization process
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (118+ words) Hi everyone. This is issue No. 387 of the Process, where we aim for the best charts in the land of infinite possibilities. I’m Nathan Yau. This week is about constraints. To access this issue of The Process, you must be…...
Estimating how much text on the internet is generated
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (154+ words) Researchers analyzed newly published websites from 2022 through mid-2025 to estimate what percentage used generated text and how this might affect future information online. So it has grown to about a third of new sites that use AI-generated or AI-assisted text. That…...
Past job transformations, because of technology
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (92+ words) FlowingData Past job transformations, because of technology It seems every day the chances that AI transforms work trends towards certain. The less certain part is the how. Some jobs could go away but new ones might appear. Employment needs could…...