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Journals and funders are trying to boost the speed and effectiveness of review processes that are under strain.

"This is more representative of the developer environment that our future employees will work in."

On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models.

Hay muchas cosas que la IA no puede hacer, pero el bombo publicitario y la desinformación están alejando a los futuros estudiantes de la informática.

Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

How we built blockdiff, an open-source tool for rapid block-level diffs and snapshots of VM disks.

OR: catapulting myself into a pit of tarantulas

Building on the recent empirical work of Kwa et al. (2025), I show that within their suite of research-engineering tasks the performance of AI agents on longer-duration tasks can be explained by an extremely simple mathematical model — a constant rate of failing during each minute a human would take

Generative coding tools promise big productivity gains, but uneven uptake could widen skill and income gaps. We train a neural classifier to spot AI-generated Python functions in 80 million GitHub commits (2018-2024) by 200,000 developers and track how fast--and where--these tools take hold. By December 2024, AI wrote an estimated 30.1% of Python functions from U.S. contributors, versus 24.3% in Germany, 23.2% in France, 21.6% in India, 15.4% in Russia and 11.7% in China. Newer GitHub users use AI more than veterans, while male and female developers adopt at similar rates. Within-developer fixed-effects models show that moving to 30% AI use raises quarterly commits by 2.4%. Coupling this effect with occupational task and wage data puts the annual value of AI-assisted coding in the United States at $9.6-$14.4 billion, rising to $64-$96 billion if we assume higher estimates of productivity effects reported by randomized control trials. Moreover, generative AI prompts learning and innovation, leading to increases in the number of new libraries and library combinations that programmers use. In short, AI usage is already widespread but highly uneven, and the intensity of use, not only access, drives measurable gains in output and exploration.

AI's real threat to education.

The elusive hacking group Careto was never publicly linked to a specific government, but TechCrunch has learned researchers concluded privately that the Spanish government was behind the group.

For 45 years, PAC-MAN has made an impact on the world by connecting with people across ages, borders and genders through the power of play.

We introduce the first method for translating text embeddings from one vector space to another without any paired data, encoders, or predefined sets of matches. Our unsupervised approach translates any embedding to and from a universal latent representation (i.e., a universal semantic structure conjectured by the Platonic Representation Hypothesis). Our translations achieve high cosine similarity across model pairs with different architectures, parameter counts, and training datasets. The ability to translate unknown embeddings into a different space while preserving their geometry has serious implications for the security of vector databases. An adversary with access only to embedding vectors can extract sensitive information about the underlying documents, sufficient for classification and attribute inference.

Eliminate online classes, ban screens, and restore Socratic discussion as education’s guiding model.

Official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis

Classic essay about how software routinely bumbles human names.

The Batch AI News and Insights: Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it.

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