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AI that makes life or death decisions should be interpretable

QueensGambit — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:23:05 +0000

Article URL: https://manidoraisamy.com/ai-interpretable.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47210810

Points: 8

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Induced biological soil crust strategy reverses desertification

QueensGambit — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:21:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038071719303293

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47149281

Points: 2

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New comment by QueensGambit in "Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data"

QueensGambit — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:34:22 +0000

Factorization is key here. It separates dataset-level structure from observation-level computation so the model doesn't waste capacity rediscovering structure.

I've been arguing the same for code generation. LLMs flatten parse trees into token sequences, then burn compute reconstructing hierarchy as hidden states. Graph transformers could be a good solution for both: https://manidoraisamy.com/ai-mother-tongue.html

Objects as big as a protein can be in two places at once

QueensGambit — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:31:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/objects-big-protein-can-be-two-places-once-experimental-schrodinger-s-cat-suggests

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911209

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Two-Thirds of Ukraine's Intelligence Comes from France's Space Intelligence

QueensGambit — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:20:11 +0000

Article URL: https://militarnyi.com/en/articles/france-s-space-intelligence-where-does-two-thirds-of-ukraine-s-intelligence-come-from/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682569

Points: 6

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New comment by QueensGambit in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

QueensGambit — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:44:05 +0000

https://manidoraisamy.com

Let AI speak in its mother tongue

QueensGambit — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:17:45 +0000

Hi HN,

I asked GPT-5 to count the characters in this essay [1]. Here's what happened:

- JavaScript: correct in 1ms

- GPT-5 with Python tool: correct in 26 seconds

- GPT-5 pure reasoning: wrong after 3.2 minutes

So why can't we let AI reason in Python or JavaScript instead of English? In this essay, I explore this question through graph transformers that preserve code structure rather than flattening it into token sequences. Thoughts?

[1] https://github.com/ManiDoraisamy/devforever/blob/c41f69283a8...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531118

Points: 1

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Diverse vertebrate species in mosquito blood meal

QueensGambit — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:24:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-28062-x

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525591

Points: 2

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Small and short-lived 2025 ozone hole confirms long-term recovery trend

QueensGambit — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:11:45 +0000

Article URL: https://wmo.int/media/news/small-and-short-lived-2025-ozone-hole-confirms-long-term-recovery-trend

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510971

Points: 2

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Multivariate Information Bottleneck – A Framework for Variational Losses

QueensGambit — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:38:02 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03311

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504586

Points: 2

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How are geological repository projects progressing?

QueensGambit — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:25:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/how-are-geological-repository-projects-progressing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468349

Points: 5

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Gut microbiota modulates plasticity, dopamine in VTA-mPFC pathway in depression

QueensGambit — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:45:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-025-03398-y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465882

Points: 3

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Natural variation in the ZmPIMT1 promoter enhances seed aging tolerance in maize

QueensGambit — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:21:57 +0000

Article URL: https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article/37/10/koaf217/8257766

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457114

Points: 2

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How plants create mitraphylline, a natural compound linked to anticancer effects

QueensGambit — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:30:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251227082728.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46456002

Points: 2

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New comment by QueensGambit in "Sleep insufficiency and life expectancy in the United States"

QueensGambit — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:12:21 +0000

From the paper: "sleep insufficiency was significantly associated with lower life expectancy when controlling for traditional predictors of mortality, with only smoking displaying a stronger association."