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A brilliant, interactive tutorial by the University of Sheffield on how to do a literature review:

Covers:

What is a literature review?
Finding information sources
Organising your sources
Synthesising your sources
Writing your review

Link: tinyurl.com/h5nrx5ev
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Networking Bottleneck: What’s Really Slowing AI Infrastructure - A November 2025 analysis that argues the next structural bottleneck in AI infrastructure isn’t compute/GPUs but networking: switches, optics, NICs. ASICs are not scaling as fast as compute. www.fusionww.com/insights/res...
The Networking Bottleneck: What’s Really Slowing AI Infrastructure
www.fusionww.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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The 2025 Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence

This is an excellent 23 page guide on ethical use of AI. It is a general guide instead of a libguide doing a deeper dive into specific AI tools.

studentguidetoai.org

#research #LLM #AItools #ethics
Using AI for creative work - Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence
AI tools can be used for a wide range of creative work Suggestions Cautions Examples of creative AI tools that generate images, videos and music
studentguidetoai.org
September 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Very helpful chapter describing the different steps in the literature review process and the types of review articles.

It's open access and you can read by clicking the link below:

www.linkedin.com/posts/silvi...
Very helpful chapter describing the different steps in the literature review process and the types of review articles. | Silvi.ai
Very helpful chapter describing the different steps in the literature review process and the types of review articles. It's open access and you can read by clicking the link below: https://lnkd.in/gXiW_5d
www.linkedin.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"Paralpi," 2023, Acrylic and Ink on Canvas painting by Zaachariaha Fielding
August 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
August 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
"People With AI Friends Feel Worse"

The authors found a consistent correlation between chatbot companionship and lower well-being, but they didn’t establish causation.

www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/st...
Study Shows Heavy Use of AI Companions Correlates With Lower Emotional Well-Being
People who turn to chatbots for companionship show indications of lower self-reported well-being, researchers found.
www.deeplearning.ai
August 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/r...
LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find
Chain-of-thought AI “degrades significantly” when asked to generalize beyond training.
arstechnica.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Vidify - a useful AI search tool for Youtube videos

vidify-chi.vercel.app/en/

#Youtube #Vidify #vercelApps
August 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This game is a fun little amusement. You are shown 2 images and need to guess where you are and what year you have been dropped into in history.

www.eggnog.ai

#fun #history #geography
Time Portal Challenge
Experimental AI video experiences
www.eggnog.ai
August 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
"Understanding, Deterring, and Preparing for a Great-Power War in the Twenty-First Century"

Interesting free (to download) new book from U.S. Army War College offering some insights on how AI will affect warfare in the 21st century.

press.armywarcollege.edu/irps/1/

#AI #military #AIwar
Understanding, Deterring, and Preparing for a Great-Power War in the Twenty-First Century
The US government and the US Army are unprepared for a great-power war. This integrated research project (IRP), sponsored by Vice Chief of Staff of the Army General James J. Mingus, is a critical firs...
press.armywarcollege.edu
August 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Sometimes these techniques helped, sometimes they hurt performance. It averaged to almost no effect. There was no clear way to predict in advance which technique would work when.

Papers:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Prompting Science Report 1: Prompt Engineering is Complicated and Contingent
This is the first of a series of short reports that seek to help business, education, and policy leaders understand the technical details of working with AI thr
papers.ssrn.com
August 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
DARPA’s N3: The Future of Non-Surgical Brain Interfaces

DARPA’s Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) project is an ambitious initiative aiming to develop vast array of nanoscalar sensing & transmitting brain-computational interfaces.

biodefenseresearch.org/darpas-n3-th...

#neuroAI
DARPA's N3: The Future of Non-Surgical Brain Interfaces - Institute for Biodefense Research
DARPA's latest breakthrough: Brain interfaces without surgery? The N3 project aims to revolutionize how we interface with our minds using nano-tech and electromagnetic fields. But with great power com...
biodefenseresearch.org
July 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Ah, the lament of mail art never sent. I love mail art & when I do it I try very hard to make it a one of kind experience. But I can be thrown when the responses are nil or banal. #Art #DigitalArt #popart #collageart #dada #absurd #design #patterns #zine #drawing #Illustration #odd #abstractart
July 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Bohrium, the free AI-powered search engine for researchers, just launched a new feature: AI Posters.

Upload a paper and within a couple of clicks you get a poster with key insights from the paper.

Here's how to do it:
June 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
old.reddit.com/r/LifeProTip... is a Reddit thread that has a good tip for removing lower quality search results from Google search. Some of the comments in the thread are very useful, eg. the list of blocked domains for Kagi search: kagi.com/stats?stat=l... .

#research #search #academia
LPT: How to permanently remove Quora, Pinterest and other low-quality sites from your Google searches
Are you tired of seeing Quora answers, Pinterest boards, and WikiHow articles clogging up your Google search results? Here's how to permanently...
old.reddit.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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I just released a preprint reporting on my experiment with generative AI in my Engineering Computations course. TL;DR: It was a mess. The biggest issue? The "illusion of competence."
#GenAI #education #edtech
May 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Apps like ChatGPT are unsuitable for scientific research. They generate fake references to papers that don't exist.

So, researchers at Future House built an AI scientist.

It generates detailed literature reviews with references to state-of-the-art research. And it's free.🧵
May 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"Human, Machine, War: How the Mind-Tech Nexus Will Win Future Wars" edited by Nicholas Wright, Michael Miklaucic, and Todd Veazie.

Free book download at:
media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/18/...

#AI #neuroAI #military #war
April 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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New Preprint: "The Rise of Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2504.12902 #socialmedia @bsky.app
April 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I wonder if there will be a resurgence of pulp fiction and other escapist entertainment in the U.S. given the current chaos in the country. The documentary video below is about the rise of pulp fiction during the Great Depression.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b87E...

#pulpFiction #documentary
Pulp Fiction: The Golden Age of Storytelling (2009)
YouTube video by Down The Rabbit Hole
www.youtube.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I published another edition of my free newsletter showing abstracts of research articles on CGM & diabetes:

biomed.news/bims-glumda/...

You can subscribe to it here by signing up for the newsletter
"bims-glumda CGM data in management of diabetes"
biomed.news/reports

#diabetes #CGM #research
bims-glumda 2025-04-13 papers
biomed.news
April 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I have started a new weekly newsletter that is a bibliography of new research on the use of automated knowledge discovery in medicine. You can subscribe to it free by signing up for "bims-aukdim Automated knowledge discovery techniques in medicine" at:

biomed.news/reports

#medicine #AI
April 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM