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AI stirs up the optimal recipe for sustainable concrete

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-ai-optimal-recipe-sustainable-concrete.html
1•mdp2021•1d ago

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mdp2021•1d ago
They tell you that they used AI to optimize a solution, you think of "simulated annealing" or similar.

But no: you are told LLMs were used to sort through «hundreds of thousands of pages of scientific literature»¹. The big question does not seem to appear tackled in the article: how did they use the unreliable NN when needing to obtain objectively optimal results?

¹(«Large language models extract chemical compositions and material types of 14,000 materials from 88,000 academic papers» - https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-025-00820-4)

BBC and Sky bosses criticise plans to let AI firms use copyrighted material

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/04/bbc-sky-government-uk-ai-technology-copyright
1•chrisjj•55s ago•0 comments

Identifying Signals of Expertise in Interviews

https://sharedphysics.com/signals-of-expertise/
1•goopthink•2m ago•0 comments

Font Around and Find Out

https://www.jasonthorsness.com/27
1•jasonthorsness•6m ago•0 comments

What Is Post-Fascism?

https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/06/04/what-is-post-fascism/
1•Traces•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Claude-Bridge – Use GPT, Gemini, and Other LLMs with Claude Code

https://github.com/badlogic/lemmy/tree/main/apps/claude-bridge
1•badlogic•6m ago•1 comments

Google DeepMind's CEO Thinks AI Will Make Humans Less Selfish

https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepminds-ceo-demis-hassabis-thinks-ai-will-make-humans-less-selfish/
1•voxadam•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: This Hacker News does not exist

https://thishackernewsdoesnotexist.com
3•wonderfuly•7m ago•0 comments

Unit Economics: Not just numbers, but the key to good decisions

1•daniilkhanin•8m ago•0 comments

JWST Spots an Early Galaxy "Mysteriously" Clearing the Universe's Primordial Fog

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-sees-galaxy-mysteriously-clearing-fog-of-early-universe/
1•karlperera•9m ago•1 comments

The HTTP Query Method

https://httpwg.org/http-extensions/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body.html
2•thunderbong•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Spectral.js – A MIT licensed alternative to Mixbox

https://github.com/rvanwijnen/spectral.js
1•rvanwijnen•11m ago•0 comments

Cops want Apple, Google to kill stolen phones remotely – so why won't they?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/04/apple_google_stolen_phones/
1•rntn•12m ago•0 comments

The Texting Network for the End of the World

https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-ready-for-phone-dead-zones/
1•dotcoma•13m ago•0 comments

The no-nonsense approach to AI agent development

https://vercel.com/blog/the-no-nonsense-approach-to-ai-agent-development
1•cramforce•15m ago•0 comments

Generative AI models are skilled in the art of bullshit

https://www.ft.com/content/55c08fc8-2f0b-4233-b1c6-c1e19d99990f
1•dotcoma•16m ago•0 comments

How Should We Think About the Renaissance?

https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-should-we-think-about-the-renaissance
2•prismatic•17m ago•0 comments

Physicality: The New Age of UI

https://www.lux.camera/physicality-the-new-age-of-ui/
1•robenkleene•17m ago•0 comments

How ancient are our fears not simply of dying but of the undead? Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/how-ancient-are-our-fears-not-simply-of-dying-but-of-the-undead
1•rbanffy•17m ago•0 comments

Can You Control If Amazon Rufus AI Trains on Your Queries?

https://www.askdavetaylor.com/control-amazon-rufus-ai-trains-on-queries/
1•austinallegro•18m ago•0 comments

We built a voice AI agent that answers and makes calls for ecommerce businesses

https://llamalo.ai/
2•anasmidoul•19m ago•2 comments

Globally Based – all-in-one platform for travel management

https://globallybased.com
1•ilyagruzhevski•22m ago•0 comments

TSMC to open up chip design center in Munich to help local chip developers

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/tsmc-to-open-up-chip-design-center-in-munich-to-help-local-chip-developers
1•rbanffy•23m ago•0 comments

Hyundai's Metaplant: Cutting-Edge EV Factory

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hyundai-metaplant-georgia
1•rbanffy•23m ago•0 comments

Uber's senior accounts are now widely available

https://www.theverge.com/news/678874/uber-senior-account-elderly-font-simple
1•Tomte•24m ago•0 comments

Return-to-player information increases gamblers' perceived chances of winning

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306460325001248
1•PaulHoule•24m ago•0 comments

Upcoming Changes to the Chrome Root Store

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/05/sustaining-digital-certificate-security-chrome-root-store-changes.html
1•Tomte•24m ago•0 comments

My second open source contribution

https://substack.com/home/post/p-165170908
1•fitiavana07•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which LLM Finds Obscure Knife-Brand URLs Cheapest? (8-Model Benchmark)

https://new.knife.day/blog/using-llms-for-knife-brand-research
2•p-s-v•25m ago•0 comments

Meta and Constellation Partner on Clean Energy Project

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/06/meta-constellation-partner-clean-energy-project/
1•doener•27m ago•0 comments

The happiest kids–things parents here in Netherlands never do (2023)

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/10/child-psychologist-in-the-netherlands-where-worlds-happiest-kids-live-what-dutch-parents-never-do.html
1•itherseed•27m ago•0 comments