Articles by the-mitr
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Linear algebra done right (axler.net)

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Behold the 'glueball,' a new form of matter (science.org)

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Peter Sarnak on "The AlphaZero Test" for Mathematics (ams.org)

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Visa stress clouds my life as a scientist and parent (science.org)

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The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I (newyorker.com)

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How the 'fecal revolution' changed Earth's ecosystems (phys.org)

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AI Is Replacing Customer Service Jobs (yahoo.com)

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The Ancient Roots of Modern Winemaking (nautil.us)

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A Brief History of the Internet's Favorite Scam (mitpress.mit.edu)

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The cost of memory: How organisms balance thinking and sensing (phys.org)

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How I use AI in my geology research without losing the science I love (science.org)

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Claude for Teachers (anthropic.com)

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Firefox 153 Released (firefox.com)

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How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty (themarginalian.org)

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Claude, with feedback from ChatGPT, writes a history of AI (docs.google.com)

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Don't Pee on My Leg and Call It Science (stager.tv)

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Empire of Signs – Links between the history of semiotics and LLMs (lareviewofbooks.org)

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SticiGui – Statistics Tools for Internet and Classroom Instruction with a GUI (stat.berkeley.edu)

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Stories from Physics (iop.org)

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Building a Curriculum on Genes (howardgardner.com)

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The Mystery of the Siberian Craters (nautil.us)

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A Framework for Representing Knowledge – Marvin Minsky (1975) [pdf] (media.mit.edu)

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Can Architecture Ever Save Us from Sickness? (mitpress.mit.edu)

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The Science of Play (unicef.org)

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LAUSD's screen ban sets new milestone in tech backlash (districtadministration.com)

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Talking with your PDFs locally with Blablador and GPT4all (fz-juelich.de)

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AI Cheerleading, AI Abstention and AI Redirection (vanessaandreotti.substack.com)

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A Charter School Spent $500k on AI-Powered Humanoid Robots. Was It Worth It? (voiceofsandiego.org)

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Helmholtz AI: Democratising AI for a data-driven future (helmholtz.ai)

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Update on CC Signals: What Changed and Why (creativecommons.org)

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How animals communicate to work together across species boundaries (phys.org)

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CrankGPT - a fully offline, off-the-grid AI box (squeezlabs.github.io)

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Braess's Paradox (wikipedia.org)

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[flagged] How to Become a Person After Smartphones Have Rotted Your Brain (thenewatlantis.com)

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Voskhod Spacecraft "Globus" IMP navigation instrument (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: What does your local LLM setup looks like?

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China's universities cut 12,000 'obsolete' degrees (scmp.com)

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What Shape Is the Earth? (aeon.co)

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What concerns SHOULD we be discussing about using AI in Education? (stemteachingtools.org)

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Turning the Psychedelic Experience into a Math Problem (nautil.us)

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Parasitic Computing (wikipedia.org)

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After empty promises, string theory finds new uses (science.org)

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Invisible College (wikipedia.org)

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Digital Twin (wikipedia.org)

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The forgotten Scots who gave Kafka his voice (engelsbergideas.com)

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Computer Lessons - A history of computers in education (technicshistory.com)

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A Marxist View of Tolkien's Middle Earth (jacobin.com)

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Psiloscoby (psiloscoby.com)

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Matthew Effect (wikipedia.org)

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After centuries of trying, we've yet to arrive at a perfect way to map colour [video] (aeon.co)

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How a PhD is like riding a bike (2025) (science.org)

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OpenAlex: All the Research, Connected and Open (openalex.org)

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The Supernova That Sparked the Original Scientific Revolution (nautil.us)

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NASA Says Farewell to Maven Mars Mission (nasa.gov)

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Zeugma and Syllepsis (wikipedia.org)

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Limbic Capitalism (cwcp.ca)

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Many-Valued Logic (wikipedia.org)

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Zettelkasten (wikipedia.org)

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Sam Altman Testifies That Elon Musk Wanted Control of OpenAI (nytimes.com)

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The eye in your pocket: digital devices are made to track you (aeon.co)

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Plants can 'hear' rain coming, spurring them into action (scientificamerican.com)

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Nature's hardware store: building the future with biology [video] (aeon.co)

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Poka-Yoke (wikipedia.org)

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Reclip – Download videos from almost any website (github.com/averygan)

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Studies on animal minds suggests consicousness is not computation [pdf] (petergodfreysmith.com)

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Great Attractor (wikipedia.org)

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Why Don't Physicists Just Write Clearly? (readingforlearning.org)

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2-D Mathematical Curves (2dcurves.com)

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Why do so many people use AI to cheat at fun? (thecut.com)

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JSXGraph – Web-Based Interactive Mathematics Visualisation (uni-bayreuth.de)

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A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy One (2010) (scientificamerican.com)

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Engaging Essays in Cosmology [1971-2026] (archive.org)

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Here's Looking at Euclid: 3D Paper Models of Oliver Byrne's Euclid's Elements (helenfriel.com)

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How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell (burrito.bio)

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Dublin Core (dublincore.org)

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Omeka S: a platform for digital cultural heritage collections and resources (omeka.org)

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Day Time Astronomy (navnirmitilearning.org)

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Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature (nature.com)

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Sci-Hub launches Sci-Bot an AI-powered research assistant (sci-bot.ru)

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Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (2026) (archive.org)

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Advantages of Longhand over Laptop Note Taking (2014) [pdf] (brucehayes.org)

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The importance of stupidity in scientific research (2008) [pdf] (stanford.edu)

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The open future and its enemies: protecting free society from AI dictatorship (feps-europe.eu)

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What is tech neck? (2024) (vanderbilthealth.com)

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Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms (sciencedirect.com)

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Ray Optics Simulation (phydemo.app)

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Marvin Minsky – Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence (1961) [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)

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An Electronic Conversationalist (and the Machine Replied...) (1962) (archive.org)

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When AI agents show up to class (moodle.com)

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The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed (theatlantic.com)

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Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet (chalkbeat.org)

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Academic fraud may be the symptom of a more systemic problem (voxweb.nl)

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There Is No Progress in Philosophy (2011) [pdf] (psychologytoday.com)

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Engaging with Everyday Sounds [2022] (archive.org)

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A brief history of Lab Notebooks (asimov.com)

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The AI Layoff Trap (arxiv.org)

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Frugal AI for Education (col.org)

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Books vs. Screens: What Does the Latest Research Say? (govtech.com)

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Algebrica – A Mathematical Knowledge Base (algebrica.org)