OpenAI’s release of hundreds of mathematical papers sent shock waves through academia. But an examination of AI-assisted scientific research reveals something more important: which discoveries survived experimental testing, how...
Operational, safety, procurement, and cost-benefit analysis The V-22 Osprey is one of the most consequential aircraft the Marine Corps has ever fielded. It delivers capabilities that the CH-46 Sea...
Anthropic’s Self-Replicating AI Warning: Science, Hype, or an Attack on Open-Source Competition? My assessment: skepticism is justified, and my suspicion is that there are commercial motives here. But the...
The Hidden Costs of ArtCraft: Did One Developer Really Rebuild Adobe Creative Cloud in Two Weeks? How Claude Code, thousands of AI agent-hours, startup financing, and an existing multimillion-dollar...
The most useful thing AI did for this research wasn’t prove my theory. It helped me recognize when the evidence had ruled it out. Over the last few months,...
The Hubble Tension May Be More Than One Number For more than a decade, cosmologists have faced an uncomfortable problem: different ways of measuring the expansion of the universe...
Public debates about crime often focus on punishment, as crime increases the political response is predictable: increase the sentence. Five years becomes seven, ten becomes fifteen, mandatory minimums get...
“8.1% Guaranteed for Life” Misleading Annuity Video for American Viewers A YouTube video recently caught my attention with a remarkable title: “It’s boring, but it pays 8.1% guaranteed for...
Cheap Is Not the Same as Livable: What the Visual Capitalist City Ranking Leaves Out Visual Capitalist recently published an attractive chart titled “100 Global Cities by Quality of...
A recent ZeroHedge article makes a provocative claim about the economic revolution normally associated with Ronald Reagan: much of the deregulation for which Reagan received credit had actually been...