experimental-history.com
I’m so sorry for psychology’s loss, whatever it is
13+ min · · The plane crashed and nobody checked the bodies · Shared by 577, including Pascal Sulser
economicsfromthetopdown.com
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation
13+ min · · Do unskilled people actually underestimate their incompetence? · Shared by 38, including Piotr Migdal, Sid Sijbrandij, Pascal Sulser, Carl T. Bergstrom, Joe Lencioni, Dave Kellogg
The New Yorker
They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?
12+ min · · Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data. · Shared by 512, including Pascal Sulser
youtube.com
The ‘alpha male’ myth, debunked
· Primatologist Frans de Waal inadvertently popularized the term ‘alpha male.’ Now, he’s debunking common stereotypes to explain what an ‘alpha male’ really is... · Shared by 506, including Pascal Sulser
Quanta Magazine
Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge
20+ min · · How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? Meta-complexity theorists have been asking questions like this for decades. A string of recent results has started to deliver answers. · Shared by 629, including Simon Fossom, Pascal Sulser
Big Think
New AI translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets instantly
6 min · · Translation isn’t simply a matter of swapping one word for a corresponding word in another language. A high-quality translation requires the translator to understand how both languages string thoughts… · Shared by 411, including Carla Gentry 🎶, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Simon Kuestenmacher, Joscha Bach, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Michael Shermer, Pascal Sulser, Peter van Sabben.eth, Kevin Kelly, Josep M. Ganyet, Warren Whitlock, Essaadi
Quanta Magazine
How Lossless Data Compression Works
7 min · · One student’s desire to get out of a final exam led to the ubiquitous algorithm that shrinks data without sacrificing information. · Shared by 1194, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Pascal Sulser
Big Think
The strongest evidence for a Universe before the Big Bang
13+ min · · The hot Big Bang is often touted as the beginning of the Universe. But there's one piece of evidence we can't ignore that shows otherwise. · Shared by 589, including Constantin Gurdgiev, Tim, Pascal Sulser, Barry Ritholtz
Big Think
Harvard professor explains Bayes’ rule
3 min · · The formula for rational thinking explained by Steven Pinker. · Shared by 712, including Pascal Sulser
Singularity Hub
Technology Over the Long Run: Zoom Out to See How Dramatically the World Can Change Within a Lifetime
4 min · · Bringing to mind how dramatically the world has changed can help us see how different the world could be in a few years or decades. · Shared by 204, including Marcus Borba, Nicolas Babin, John Hagel, Howard Getson, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Harold Sinnott, Pascal Sulser
Quanta Magazine
How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities
8 min · · Richard Feynman’s path integral is both a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy about how the world is. But physicists are still struggling to figure out how to use it, and what it means. · Shared by 801, including Pascal Sulser, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, hiten.eth, Thomas Power
Nautilus Magazine
The Fine Line Between Life and Not Life
13+ min · · If the brain can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality, what can? · Shared by 272, including Pascal Sulser
Autoblog
Driverless car quest has made a bonfire out of $75 billion
2 min · · Some experts believe self-driving tech is still at least a decade away, if not more, despite promises from manufacturers like Tesla. · Shared by 30, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Pascal Sulser
The Guardian
Science is making it possible to ‘hear’ nature. It does more talking than we knew
3 min · · With digital bioacoustics, scientists can eavesdrop on the natural world – and they’re learning some astonishing things · Shared by 194, including Pascal Sulser
Big Think
What's the real reason you can't go faster than the speed of light?
4 min · · The real reason that we cannot travel faster than light speed is far more interesting than the textbook answer. · Shared by 1001, including Pascal Sulser
Quanta Magazine
Two Weeks In, the Webb Space Telescope Is Reshaping Astronomy
9 min · · In the days after the mega-telescope started delivering data, astronomers reported new discoveries about galaxies, stars, exoplanets and even Jupiter. · Shared by 1322, including Pascal Sulser, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jeff Nolan 🇺🇸🚀, Edward Tufte