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Literaturnobelpreis an Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Der Literaturnobelpreis geht an den ungarischen Schriftsteller Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Das gab die Schwedische Akademie am Donnerstag in Stockholm bekannt. Krasznahorkai, der 2021 mit dem Österreichischen Staatspreis für Europäische Literatur geehrt wurde, war bei den Wettquoten zuletzt unter den Favoriten. Er habe ihn telefonisch in Frankfurt erreicht und bereits erste Details für die Verleihung besprochen, sagte Akademie-Sekretär Mats Malm. ⌘ Read more

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From Shell Scripts to Science Agents: How AI Agents Are Transforming Research Workflows
It’s 2 AM in a lab somewhere. A researcher has three terminals open, a half-written Jupyter notebook on one screen, an Excel sheet filled with sample IDs on another, and a half-eaten snack next to shell commands. They’re juggling scripts to run a protein folding model, parsing CSVs from the last experiment, searching for literature,… ⌘ Read more

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10 Great Literary Works That Almost Had Terrible Titles
When it comes to a great piece of literature, what’s in a title? Actually, quite a lot: whether as straightforward as Dracula, as cryptic as Lord of the Flies, or as devastating as The Waste Land, the title of a literary work functions as our entry point into it. But so many great literary works […]

The post [10 Great Literary Works That Almost Had Terrible Titles](https://listverse.com/2025/01/10/10-great-literary-works-t … ⌘ Read more

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Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds
Ian Sample,  Science Editor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I found the research paper upon which this report is based in the medical research literature and then found this excellent article on the research in The Guardian which is one of the most reliable sources of fact-based journalism. If you are still smoking please consider what this research is saying about your life. If you know som … ⌘ Read more

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Rucknium completes first milestone for statistical research CCS proposal
Rucknium1 has completed2 the first milestone for their latest CCS proposal to conduct statistical research to improve Monero’s privacy 3:

I have completed Milestone 1. [..] I evaluated the possible privacy impact of allowing permissionless querying of nodes’ fluff-phase transaction pools. Using techniques from the “topology inference from cascades” research literature, th … ⌘ Read more

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A chat with author Morgan Richard Olivier
A best-selling author with an eye for wellness and an ear for motivational speaking recently published a new book called “The Strength That Stays.” For Morgan Olivier, the newest literature has served as therapy for both herself and her audiences. ⌘ Read more

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There is a Polish saying that great Polish literature requires three people to suffer: the main character, the writer and the reader. If all three are suffering book becomes part of the school curriculum. A genius at suffering | Hacker News

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pareto improvement: instead of letting students write bachelors/masters theses that are basically just literature reviews, let them rewrite the respective wikipedia articles instead (and then check the article)

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Understanding Color Management
I worked on a project where I dived deep into understanding how modern
color management works, including things like color spaces, ICC profiles
and more. As I learnt here and there, I decided to write this post, both
for my future self, and others who may struggle with some of the
concepts as well.

This post only aims to help you understand the basic concepts without
having to delve into dense literature and hard to grok technical
documents.

What is color management?

Color … ⌘ Read more

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Peter Saint-Andre: Aristotle Research Report #17: Let the Re-Reading Begin
Just under two years ago, I thought I was done with phase one of my research into Aristotle’s views o human flourishing, having at that point read around 120 distinct works by or related to Aristotle (including all of Plato’s dialogues). Well, I was wrong: since then I’ve read an additional 150 works, almost exclusively in the scholarly literature on Aristotle. Now I have three whole shelves of books about Aristotle in my office…. ⌘ Read more

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Almost every coverage of NaNoGenMo is spun around commercial applications of prose-generating tech or the lack thereof, but nobody involved (AFAIK) sees it as a business venture. They just want to do quantitative experiments on literature.

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Hot take: it’s a good thing that genre films & genre literature aren’t taken seriously by the mainstream, because things that are taken seriously aren’t allowed to be interesting/experimental/meaningful. (See: Star Wars, & associated drama)

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TBH there is nothing more cyberpunk than a world where actual politically-relevant cyberpunk literature is forgotten while shitty shallow corporatized versions with awful politics are blockbusters.

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