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Do AI assistants notice if a paper was faked?
In 2001, Jan Hendrik Schön was publishing at a rate of about one paper every eight days, many of which in Nature and Science. These papers were about molecular transistors and organic superconductors. Most of them turned out to be fabricated. Before this was revealed, other labs had spent years
Is beekeeping good for bees?
I often hear from beekeepers that they are helping keep bee numbers healthy and are necessary for bee survival. This is often linked to their own honey sales, which they can now market as a sustainable product. However, I never carefully considered whether beekeepers were right that their honeybees help
LLM delusions and sycophancy
I found this interesting preprint from MIT (Chandra et al., 2026) about LLM chatbot sycophancy. They ask whether a perfectly rational person be talked into believing something false by a chatbot that never intends to deceive them? The answer the authors arrive at, through a Bayesian model and simulation, is
Why trees, neurons, and arteries look the same
Whenever I drive to work in winter, I cannot help but see comparisons between the branches of the trees and the neurons I look at under the microscope. They share some structural details: