Here are 22 more gems according to the AI among my bookmarks

1. Researchers compressed 4.1 million recipes into a two-megabyte model of human cooking.

The model spans seven languages and represents 1,790 ingredients in 300 dimensions. Beyond the technical achievement, it suggests a fascinating possibility: representing entire culinary traditions as a navigable mathematical space.

https://t.co/b5Ot6zgquH

2. Scientists watched a single-celled organism evolve multicellularity in real time.

After researchers introduced a predator, a single-cell alga evolved into a multicellular organism. The transition reportedly took about a year—a compressed demonstration of how environmental pressure can produce a major evolutionary transition.

https://t.co/SpZIVNPUbA

3. The human brain contains billions of neurons but appears to process conscious thought at roughly ten bits per second.

This paper asks why our enormous biological machinery produces such a narrow stream of conscious processing—and why we can generally think about only one thing at a time.

https://t.co/E1g7ffUhK7

4. Leaded gasoline may have reduced the cognitive ability of about half the American population.

A study estimated the population-scale impact of childhood lead exposure from automobile exhaust. It is a remarkable example of a mundane technology quietly imposing enormous social costs.

https://t.co/51asPa5sF3

5. Cats may exploit change blindness to sneak up on us.

Change blindness is our failure to notice even dramatic environmental changes while our attention is elsewhere. This post connects the phenomenon to a familiar feline behavior: moving closer whenever you look away.

https://t.co/3WWWa6MkjX

6. When did modern civilization finally surpass the technological achievements of the ancient world?

The answer was far less obvious to people living in 1599 or even 1715 than it seems today. This essay reconstructs how early-modern thinkers assessed their own technology relative to antiquity.

https://t.co/SCwuAZTKnz

7. People in nearly every generation believe that morality is declining.

Even young people often believe that today’s generation is worse than those that came before it. Research on the “illusion of moral decline” suggests that this recurring perception is produced by predictable biases in memory and attention.

https://t.co/FeV5NFLZoM

8. Here is a recreation of an entire GPT architecture inside a spreadsheet.

It is a working nanoGPT with approximately 85,000 parameters, small enough to fit inside a spreadsheet file. Because the data and parameters are visible, it turns an otherwise opaque transformer model into something you can inspect cell by cell.

https://t.co/kKfyNzjvXr

9. Studying the brain’s hardware may not explain human intelligence any more than studying computer hardware explains Excel pivot tables.

This paper argues that human intelligence cannot be understood independently of accumulated culture. Much of what makes an individual capable exists outside the individual—in tools, institutions, norms, and knowledge inherited from other people.

https://t.co/qX1STumeqH

10. When AI became better than humans at Go, human players subsequently became better too.

Professional Go players began learning from strategies discovered by machines, producing an unusual example of superhuman AI expanding rather than simply replacing human capability.

https://t.co/dDHJFDp4iK

11. The familiar integer values assigned to chess pieces are convenient—but not really correct.

A pawn is worth one, a bishop or knight roughly three, and a rook five. But a game as contextual as chess should not yield perfectly tidy integer values. This thread investigates what the pieces are actually worth.

https://t.co/C6uzo3TYTi

12. There is film of Paul McCartney going from almost nothing to the beginnings of a hit song in roughly 45 seconds.

It is a rare chance to watch creative expertise operating in real time: not merely performing or explaining a finished work, but discovering it.

https://t.co/hfcDriBzAI

13. What if The Lord of the Rings had emerged from ancient China?

An artist reimagined Frodo and the Fellowship through the visual language of ancient China. It is not merely a costume swap; it demonstrates how strongly world-building depends on an underlying cultural vocabulary.

https://t.co/p2ZqsFZ3Nn

14. Why does the post-scarcity civilization in Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels remain so compelling?

“Why the Culture Wins” examines the political and philosophical appeal of Banks’s civilization—and why it feels like more than a conventional science-fiction utopia.

https://t.co/kPDFGy2yhA

15. The University of Chicago offers a four-year Great Books discussion course that is open to anyone.

The program provides a structured route through foundational works without requiring enrollment in a degree. Andy Matuschak completed its first year and shared his observations.

https://t.co/xFJIDt6j9T

16. A collection of rules that produced exactly the opposite of their intended effects.

One example: banning alcohol inside college football stadiums led fans to drink more beforehand, increasing intoxication problems. The thread collects similar cases in which incentives and adaptation defeated seemingly sensible policies.

https://t.co/MGeULUpscC

17. Here are 29 slides explaining the plot of Tenet.

The post is funny, but it is also an impressive exercise in visual explanation: taking a deliberately disorienting film about inverted time and attempting to make its causal structure comprehensible.

https://t.co/B64i0MynwD

18. This graphic compares how quickly every planet rotates—and the direction each one points.

Jupiter spins at a remarkable speed, while Venus barely turns at all and rotates in the opposite direction from most planets. It makes the solar system feel less like a tidy diagram and more like a collection of wildly different physical worlds.

https://t.co/gJJrZ6QFd0

19. Mario games demonstrate that two mechanically similar experiences can feel psychologically different.

The example is a compact lesson in design: objective similarity does not produce subjective equivalence. Presentation, framing, feedback, and context can transform how the same underlying structure feels.

https://t.co/poMnBhaZCV

20. An AI learned to defeat elite human poker players in a game of hidden information.

Unlike chess or Go, poker requires reasoning about uncertainty, deception, and opponents who know things you do not. Pluribus decisively beat five professionals across 10,000 hands, making it an unusually important—and still underappreciated—AI result.

https://t.co/w5PL6jlLvL

21. An open-source tool can turn any city into a minimalist map poster.

Choose a place and generate a clean, highly detailed visual from its street network. It is a lovely example of public geographic data becoming personal art.

https://t.co/Vb9GujDju3

22. A mostly complete visual map of neural-network architectures.

The field contains far more varieties than the phrase “neural network” suggests. This graphic organizes many of them into a single taxonomy, making decades of architectural experimentation visible at once.

https://t.co/pHmpnC0k8Y