Smartphones, online learning, generative AI: The way we read has changed more in the last decade than in the previous century. So what do we actually know about what reading does for the mind? In his new book, Falk Huettig, senior investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, ...
The legislation aims to increase housing supply and lower costs. It marks a rare bipartisan legislative accomplishment for lawmakers.
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Conventional wisdom says the best predictions are the ones that minimize mistakes, but new research suggests that is not necessarily how people see it. A study published in Management Science has found that when people make or evaluate predictions, they care more about the possibility of being e...
The greatest wealth transfer is underway, and heirs around the world who are set to inherit billions are preparing to use the money very differently from the generations that built it.
A while back I wrote about parallelism—taking one big task, splitting it, and fanning it out to several agents at once. But I left a thread hanging: when several agents edit code at the same time, what keeps them from clobbering each other? That's what this post is about.