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Terence Tao on the paradox of solving mathematical problems
4+ day, 8+ 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, 5+ 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…...
Proposed arch in the path of air traffic
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (110+ words) FlowingData Proposed arch in the path of air traffic The current proposal for the arch sets the height at 288 feet above sea level. The New York Times mapped air traffic in the Washington, D.C. area to show why that’s an issue....
Solar passes coal for US electricity
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (72+ words) FlowingData Solar passes coal for US electricity Another recent flip: Based on estimates from Ember, monthly solar-generated electricity reached an all-time high in May and coal reached an all-time low in April. It looks like it won’t be long until…...
Showing when the data flips
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (131+ words) This is issue No. 392 of the Process, where we make charts that pull focus, because letting the data speak is for chumps. I’m Nathan Yau. This week, we focus on when there is a sudden change or flip in the…...
Overlap of endangered whale calls with sonic blasts – FlowingData
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (170+ words) Companies use seismic airguns in the Gulf of Mexico to find oil and gas deposits. The airguns deliver air blasts in the water, and the time it takes for an echo to return can be used to estimate metrics on…...
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…...
Visualization is not the goal
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (120+ words) This is issue No. 391 of the Process, where we strive to understand the data and help others do the same. I’m Nathan Yau. This week, we look past the chart and ponder its true purpose. To access this issue of…...