Topic
research
- gpt-researcher
GPT Researcher is an autonomous agent designed for comprehensive online research on a variety of tasks. The agent can produce detailed, factual and unbiased research reports, with customization options for focusing on…
- Hot Dogs and Process Replication
Stuart Buck with a fascinating piece on the seemingly simple but deceivingly hard process of replicating studies. Two labs were collaborating on a breast cancer study, and ran into surprising challenges getting the sa…
- Whatever Happened To The Industrial Rd Lab
Ben Southwood looks at the waning of the big R&D labs:
- Readwise, Books, and Spaced Repetition
In his piece "Why Books Don't Work," Andy Matuschak made a strong case that books are a poor medium for knowledge transfer. Even with the most advanced book experiences today (like digital ebook downloads to a Kindle)…
- Man-Computer Symbiosis
J.C.R. Licklider's seminal 1960 paper on what would eventually become the personal computer. Man-computer symbiosis is a subclass of man-machine systems. There are many man-machine systems. At present, however, there…
- Weekend Reading: Figma Multiplayer, Rice vs. Wheat, and Tuft Cells
🕹 How Figma’s Multiplayer Technology Works An interesting technical breakdown on how Figma built their multiplayer tech (the collaboration capability where you can see other users’ mouse cursors and highlights in the…
- A Network of Science
A beautiful visualization project from Nature converts 150 years of scientific papers into a 3-dimensional network diagram, making concrete the network of citations and references linking together the history of disco…
- Progress Studies
A few weeks back, Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison co-authored this piece for The Atlantic calling for research into the study of progress. From the thesis of the piece: Progress itself is understudied. By “progress,”…
- Fermat's Library
This group is building some interesting tools to expose and enable sharing and collaboration on academic papers. We develop software to help illuminate academic papers. Just as Pierre de Fermat scribbled his famous la…
- Building Complex Reasoning Skills Online Through Open-Ended Activities
The Khan Academy's Long-term Research group studies new strategies for teaching and learning. This paper presents a method for freeform response and feedback on open-ended The dynamism and interactivity of these tools…
- Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper
Paul Romer has an interesting take on this piece from the Atlantic: Jupyter rewards transparency; Mathematica rationalizes secrecy. Jupyter encourages individual integrity; Mathematica lets individuals hide behind cor…