It’s How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs
Abstract:Professional communication is increasingly mediated by LLMs – but do these models serve all users equally? We show that when prompts contain linguistic features more commonly used by women (hedges, tag questions, collective reference), they systematically elicit shorter, less sophisticated, and less formal responses across three document types and four models. These effects persist after […]
Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns
I was inspired by Tom Scott’s excellent video and links here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99_h30swtM where he talks about a particular type of “Inogon” light used to guide ships through channels or harbours. The patent is here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4629325 and the military report on the effectiveness is here: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a168108.pdf (Hint; They don’t seem to like it much). I decided to build […]
Tea5767-Radio-Tuner
ESP32-based FM radio with TEA5767 tuner, KY-040 rotary encoder, PAM8403 amplifier, and 0.96″ OLED display. Custom PCB design. Project History The project built an FM radio device using the TEA5767 radio module and the Arduino UNO in January 2026. Phase 2 includes designing a compact, custom-designed PCB board with further improvements while keeping the design […]
SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud)
A simple Android logbook for blood sugar. Free. No account. No internet. Everything stays on the phone. Free Works offline No cloud No servers Download for Android Version 1.0.0 · Production build View on GitHub Why it exists I built this so I wouldn’t have to keep filling in paper forms and notebooks while tracking […]
Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died
4 min read The Liu family includes Bede Liu’s wife, Maria; his daughter, Beatrice; his sister, Jane Jernow; his brother, Hal Liu; and grandchildren Charles and Emily Lovett. IEEE Life Fellow Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, died on 7 May. He was 91. David Kelly Crow/Princeton University Bede Liu, a digital signal processing […]
Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
Contact: Olivia Walther, [email protected] , WASHINGTON (Aug 11, 2026) – The size of a person’s midsection is a better indicator of cardiovascular disease risk when compared to their body mass index (BMI) alone, according to a study published in JACC, the flagship journal of the American College of Cardiology. BMI has traditionally been used to […]
Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
Super El Niño continues to strengthen rapidly across the tropical Pacific, with new ocean and atmospheric data showing another acceleration in its development. The latest long-range forecasts have raised the projected peak again, pushing the 2026 event deeper into historic territory later this year. Behind this rapid growth is an unusually strong combination of westerly […]
First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists
“Stunned silence.” That’s how Bryan Roth of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine described the mood at a US National Institutes of Health Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative meeting in Bethesda, Maryland, this week when he told fellow attendees about at least seven clinical trials in China that are […]
Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer
About Voltair Voltair is building the world’s first distributed network of drones for earth observation. We envision a world where after a major storm, an operator of critical infrastructure can simply sign into our platform and dispatch a drone. Within minutes, we will identify high risk hazards and stream issues directly to crews on the […]
AI Isn’t Outthinking Mathematicians. It’s Out-Remembering Them
At the 1952 dedication of the Institute for Advanced Study computer. AI may be less like an electronic Einstein than a machine-amplified von Neumann: immense speed, breadth and symbolic memory. When an AI system solves a difficult mathematical problem, the usual explanation is that it has become more intelligent. Perhaps it has absorbed millions of […]