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@Saccc_c: This is a website I designed using Fable 5 — 'The Galaxy of Physics'. I put all the physics theorems from history into a single galaxy, aiming for everyone to more intuitively feel the development and charm of physics. The inspiration for this website comes from Newton's words: 'If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.' Physics…

X AI KOLs Following · 2026-07-04 Cached

A user designed a website called 'The Galaxy of Physics' using Fable 5, which places all physics theorems from history into a single galaxy to intuitively display the development and charm of physics, and it has been deployed and launched.

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In Praise of Observational Evidence

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-01 Cached

This article argues that observational evidence is underappreciated compared to randomized controlled trials, using historical examples from the 18th century to illustrate its efficiency and power.

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Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?

Ars Technica · 2026-06-28 Cached

Science historians discover that the journal Naturwissenschaften retracted two 1940s papers by Max Planck, likely due to a copyright-related algorithm error, leading to blank pages and empty PDFs.

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Luis Alvarez's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-19 Cached

A feature article reviewing Alec Nevala-Lee's biography of Luis Alvarez, covering his work on the atomic bomb, Nobel Prize in physics, and his later hypothesis linking dinosaur extinction to an asteroid impact.

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Computational conceptual history of scientific concepts: From early digital methods to LLMs

arXiv cs.CL · 2026-06-04 Cached

This paper situates large language models within the broader history of computational approaches to concept analysis in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS), reviewing methodological challenges and LLM-based case studies for lexical semantic change detection. It covers corpus construction, operationalization, and evaluation across both pre-LLM and LLM-era workflows.

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On the evolution of the concept of probability as a mirror of the evolution of reason

arXiv cs.AI · 2026-06-02 Cached

This paper argues that probability theory is a historically evolving form of rationality, tracing its development from combinatorial games to Bayesian inference and contrasting it with fuzzy logic and deep learning.

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Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-06

The article explores the historical and technical challenges involved in the detection of neutrinos, specifically highlighting the contributions and long journey at Los Alamos.

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A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

Hacker News Top · 2026-04-21 Cached

A Scientific American article recounts how a 17th-century gambling puzzle, the “problem of points,” led Pascal and Fermat to invent modern probability theory.

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