Stop Waiting for Lightning

From rising global temperatures to the fast-warming Arctic, early climate models predicted the changes half a century ago.

I deleted everything. Every note in Obsidian. Every carefully crafted "second brain." Every Apple Note. Every to do list. Every article on my "read later" list. Every productivity system I'd built over years. Gone in seconds. What followed wasn't panic. It wasrelief. Here's what I learned about our obsession with "capturing everything": The Promise:Build a networked archive so vast it can answer questions before you ask them. Never forget. Never lose an insight. The Reality:My "second brain" became a mausoleum. A dusty collection of old selves, frozen curiosities, and deferred thinking. I was reading to extract, not to understand. Listening to summarize, not to absorb. Thinking in formats I could file, not insights I could live. This is what I know about productivity systems: → Storing an idea isn't the same as understanding it → A perfectly organized system can become a prison → Sometimes the map swallows the territory...

I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.

Ils se présentent comme patriotes mais ont tous les atours des néonazis. Comme chaque année, ils ont paradé dans les rues de Paris

"Penser la technique autrement, pour une société plus juste et soutenable" : c’est l’objet du laboratoire fabrique de pensée critique, créé en octobre...

Activité physique, mode de transport économique et écologique... A l'occasion du lancement de l'opération "Mai à vélo", franceinfo donne la parole à des cyclistes amateurs.

We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...