Hacker News with Generative AI: MIT

MIT students decode the science behind the perfect cup (news.mit.edu)
Undergraduate class blends science, hands-on experimentation, and a love for coffee to fuel curiosity.

Science, Coffee, Education, MIT

4 points by azinman2 7 days ago | 0 comments

MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style (news.mit.edu)
Legal documents are notoriously difficult to understand, even for lawyers. This raises the question: Why are these documents written in a style that makes them so impenetrable?

Legal, Linguistics, Research, MIT, Law

373 points by keepamovin 32 days ago | 423 comments

MIT Aluminum Bicycle Project 1974 (2016) (sheldonbrown.com)
In 1974, Professor Shawn Buckley ran an M.I.T. Independent Activities Period course where participants, including Marc Rosenbaum and Harriet Fell, got to build their own bicycle frames.

Bicycle Design, MIT, History

195 points by anschwa 51 days ago | 148 comments

MIT researchers develop an efficient way to train more reliable AI agents (news.mit.edu)
To boost the reliability of reinforcement learning models for complex tasks with variability, MIT researchers have introduced a more efficient algorithm for training them.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Research, MIT, Algorithms

30 points by geox 57 days ago | 8 comments

Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT (news.mit.edu)
Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold.

Education, Financial Aid, MIT, College Tuition

737 points by gnabgib 59 days ago | 458 comments

Mathematics for Computer Science [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)

Mathematics, Computer Science, Education, MIT

12 points by lapnect 83 days ago | 2 comments

My search for the mysterious missing secretary who shaped chatbot history (theconversation.com)
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Distinctive Collections archive is quiet while the blizzard blows outside. Silence seems to be accumulating with the falling snow. I am the only researcher in the archive, but there is a voice that I am straining to hear.

Chatbots, History, Artificial Intelligence, Research, MIT

60 points by severine 104 days ago | 11 comments

Liquid debuts non-transformer AI models and they're already state-of-the-art (venturebeat.com)
Liquid AI, a startup co-founded by former researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), has announced the debut of its first multimodal AI models: the “Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs).”

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Startups, MIT, Venture Capital

6 points by elsewhen 109 days ago | 0 comments

A wobble from Mars could be sign of dark matter, MIT study finds (news.mit.edu)
In a new study, MIT physicists propose that if most of the dark matter in the universe is made up of microscopic primordial black holes — an idea first proposed in the 1970s — then these gravitational dwarfs should zoom through our solar system at least once per decade.

Dark Matter, Physics, Space, MIT

9 points by el_duderino 123 days ago | 3 comments

This is MIT and yes, we have bananas (technologyreview.com)

MIT, Universities, Technology, Humor

12 points by impish9208 143 days ago | 1 comments

MIT's first freshman class since affirmative-action ban is less diverse (bbc.com)

Education, Diversity, Affirmative Action, MIT

25 points by donsupreme 147 days ago | 16 comments

At MIT, Black/Latino Enrollment Drops Sharply After Affirmative Action Ban (nytimes.com)

Education, Affirmative Action, Racial Demographics, Higher Education, MIT

7 points by yoyoyo1122 150 days ago | 2 comments

MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract (sparcopen.org)