Hacker News with Generative AI: Research

GUI Agent (github.com/showlab)
A curated list of papers, projects, and resources for multi-modal Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents.
GUI, Artificial Intelligence, Research, Resources
5 points by DanielKehoe 7 hours ago | 0 comments
Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds (torrentfreak.com)
A recent study published in the Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice sheds light on people's motivations to use Z-Library. Expensive books and limited access to academic material play a key role among those surveyed. That includes a group of Chinese postgraduate students who believe that shadow libraries help to overcome (academic) poverty.
Academic Poverty, Education, Piracy, Research, Libraries
256 points by hn_acker 8 hours ago | 57 comments
Atlas of cells transforms understanding of human body (bbc.co.uk)
An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report.
Biology, Science, Human Body, Research
10 points by JohnHammersley 11 hours ago | 0 comments
Cells have more mini 'organs' than researchers thought (theconversation.com)
Cells have more mini ‘organs’ than researchers thought − unbound by membranes, these rogue organelles challenge biology’s fundamentals
Biology, Science, Cellular Biology, Research
10 points by PaulHoule 15 hours ago | 6 comments
Trust in scientists hasn't recovered from Covid. Some humility could help (arstechnica.com)
Scientists could win back trust lost during the COVID-19 pandemic if they just showed a little intellectual humility, according to a study published Monday in Nature Human Behavior.
Science, Public Perception, COVID-19, Research
28 points by hn_acker 2 days ago | 77 comments
Rats learned to drive (theconversation.com)
Rats will choose to take a longer route if it means they get to enjoy the ride to their destination.
Animal Behavior, Science, Research
230 points by uprootdev 2 days ago | 96 comments
IBM Research's AIU family of chips (research.ibm.com)
IBM Research’s AIU family of prototype chip designs point the way to a future where AI computation is more efficient, less power hungry, and more capable.
Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, IBM, Research, Chips
11 points by sandwichsphinx 2 days ago | 0 comments
20 years of Google Scholar (google)
To celebrate 20 years of Google Scholar, we’re sharing some fun facts about the go-to resource for researchers worldwide.
Google, Research, History, Anniversaries
407 points by thepuppet33r 3 days ago | 186 comments
AI Can 'Hear' When a Lithium Battery Is About to Catch Fire (nist.gov)
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a way to use sound to detect when lithium-ion batteries are about to catch fire.
Artificial Intelligence, Battery Safety, Science, Research
3 points by gmays 3 days ago | 1 comments
Awesome-Geo (github.com/DavidHuji)
Awesome list for research on GEO (Generative Engine Optimization).
Machine Learning, Generative AI, Research, Software, Lists
4 points by davenu 3 days ago | 1 comments
Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates (lancaster.ac.uk)
A new study published today in Nature Geoscience by Dr Andrew Jarvis at Lancaster University and Professor Piers Forster at the University of Leeds shows that humans may have already caused 1.5 °C of global warming when measured from a time genuinely before the industrial revolution and the start of large-scale carbon emissions.
Climate Change, Science, Global Warming, Research
395 points by gmays 4 days ago | 548 comments
Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds (psypost.org)
In a recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition, researchers at Northwestern University showed that a smartphone app using sensory cues can significantly increase the frequency of lucid dreams—dreams in which a person is aware they are dreaming while still asleep.
Lucid Dreaming, Sleep, Neuroscience, Apps, Research
123 points by mikhael 4 days ago | 107 comments
A Taxonomy of AgentOps (arxiv.org)
The ever-improving quality of LLMs has fueled the growth of a diverse range of downstream tasks, leading to an increased demand for AI automation and a burgeoning interest in developing foundation model (FM)-based autonomous agents.
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Research
67 points by omarsar 4 days ago | 1 comments
Towards Nyquist Learners (gwern.net)
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Research
66 points by sleepingreset 4 days ago | 49 comments
A Case Against the Placebo Effect (carcinisation.com)
The picture that emerges is that a placebo pill has almost no effect when administered by researchers who do not care about the placebo effect, but the exact same pill has an enormous effect larger than all existing treatments when administered by a researcher who really wants the placebo effect to be real. The most parsimonious explanation is that it is the research practices, rather than the placebo.
Science, Research, Psychology, Placebo Effect
82 points by Luc 5 days ago | 91 comments
Egg Consumption and 4-Year Change in Cognitive Function in Older Men and Women (mdpi.com)
Health, Nutrition, Aging, Cognitive Function, Research
7 points by gnabgib 6 days ago | 4 comments
LlamaChunk: Better RAG Chunking Than LlamaIndex (github.com/ZeroEntropy-AI)
One major pain point of building RAG applications is that it requires a lot of experimentation and tuning, and there are hardly any good benchmarks to evaluate the accuracy of the retrieval step only.
Generative AI, Tools, Research
15 points by npip99 6 days ago | 5 comments
Researchers have built server prototypes that re-use old components (ieee.org)
Researchers have built server prototypes that re-use old components that would otherwise go to waste, boosting sustainability.
Sustainability, Server Hardware, Hardware Reuse, Research
44 points by rbanffy 6 days ago | 41 comments
Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge (arxiv.org)
Language models are known to hallucinate incorrect information, and it is unclear if they are sufficiently accurate and reliable for use in scientific research.
Generative AI, Science, Research
54 points by rntn 6 days ago | 22 comments
What to Do When Your Hypothesis Is Wrong? Publish (sciencefriday.com)
But what about the papers with negative results? If you’re a researcher, you know that you’re much more likely to disprove your hypothesis than validate it, but there aren’t a lot of incentives to go out and publish your failed experiments.
Science, Research, Publishing, Academia
17 points by Breadmaker 7 days ago | 0 comments
New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike (arstechnica.com)
On Friday, research organization Epoch AI released FrontierMath, a new mathematics benchmark that has been turning heads in the AI world because it contains hundreds of expert-level problems that leading AI models solve less than 2 percent of the time, according to Epoch AI.
Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Research, Benchmarking
4 points by amichail 7 days ago | 0 comments
1 Genomic Test Can Diagnose Nearly Any Infection (ucsf.edu)
A genomic test developed at UC San Francisco to rapidly detect almost any kind of pathogen – virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite – has proved successful after a decade of use.
Genomics, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Healthcare, Research
11 points by geox 7 days ago | 1 comments
Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory [video] (youtube.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Predictions, Research, Video
32 points by csours 8 days ago | 4 comments
New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike (arstechnica.com)
On Friday, research organization Epoch AI released FrontierMath, a new mathematics benchmark that has been turning heads in the AI world because it contains hundreds of expert-level problems that leading AI models solve less than 2 percent of the time, according to Epoch AI.
Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Research, Benchmarking
8 points by isaacfrond 8 days ago | 2 comments
A stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom (arstechnica.com)
Ignoring negative feedback, Li pursued the project for more than two years. It strained her research budget and the patience of her graduate students. When she took a new job at Stanford in 2009, she took several of those students—and the ImageNet project—with her to California.
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Research, Deep Learning
115 points by rbanffy 9 days ago | 26 comments
The Lost Reading Items of Ilya Sutskever's AI Reading List (tensorlabbet.com)
In this post: An attempt to reconstruct Ilya Sutskever's 2020 AI reading list (8 min read)
Artificial Intelligence, Reading Lists, Research, AI Research, Computer Science
45 points by tarolangner 9 days ago | 6 comments
'Brain stars' store our memories like a microscopic filing cabinet (newatlas.com)
Fascinating new findings into how clusters of 'brain stars' retain memories has changed what we know about how they're held in our minds.
Neuroscience, Memory, Brain, Research, Science
29 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 10 days ago | 1 comments
LED lights on underside of surfboards may deter great white shark attacks (theguardian.com)
Using LED lighting on the underside of surfboards or kayaks could deter great white shark attacks, new research suggests.
Shark Attacks, Marine Safety, Technology, Research
6 points by hackernj 10 days ago | 2 comments
The surprising effectiveness of test-time training for abstract reasoning [pdf] (mit.edu)
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Research, Computer Science
86 points by trott 10 days ago | 27 comments
A stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom (arstechnica.com)
Ignoring negative feedback, Li pursued the project for more than two years. It strained her research budget and the patience of her graduate students. When she took a new job at Stanford in 2009, she took several of those students—and the ImageNet project—with her to California.
Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Research
76 points by LorenDB 10 days ago | 14 comments