Psychology & Behaviour
Cognition, decision-making, motivation and human behaviour.
FuriosaAI Takes Lisbon — And the Power Math Actually Makes Sense
FuriosaAI's RNGD accelerators are now live at Equinix's Lisbon datacenter. For a South Korean chip startup that's been quietly building power-efficient inference silicon since 2017, the European debut is less about offloading inventory and more about betting on sovereign AI compute — with a chip that sips 180W while delivering serious FP8 throughput.
Generative Engine Optimization: When Paid Mentions Compromise AI Trust
An exploration of how paid placements and aggressive outreach are blurring the lines between legitimate Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and manipulative practices, threatening the future of AI-powered search results.
What Constrains Distributed Systems Isn't Access, It's Execution
This article explores why execution — not access — is the real constraint in distributed systems. With agentic AI moving autonomously at machine speed, traditional API-based boundaries are obsolete. Kernel-level enforcement through eBPF, Cilium, and Tetragon provides the runtime guardrails that autonomous systems need.
Rethinking How AI Stores What It Knows
Exploring how Symbolic Embedding Multi-Quantization (SEMQ) separates meaning from representation to shrink AI memory footprints without the accuracy losses of traditional quantization.
Why We Double Down: The Psychology of Sticking With Bad Decisions
We've all been there — staying in a dead-end job, finishing a terrible book, or clinging to a failing plan. The sunk cost fallacy explains why past investments hijack our future choices, and how recognizing the bias can set us free.
Shared Joy: The Science Behind Instant Connection
Exploring how brief, genuine moments of collective joy—like those witnessed in sports stadiums—transcend borders and illustrate the powerful, contagious nature of human connection and positive psychology.
The Trust Paradox: Reclaiming Authentic Human Connection in the AI Era
As artificial intelligence becomes an increasingly integrated part of our personal and professional lives, it poses a subtle yet significant threat to our ability to build deep, meaningful human relationships. By examining the mechanics of trust and the eroding effect of AI-mimicry, we explore how to maintain the essential human capacities for empathy, vulnerability, and genuine connection.
Meditation Isn’t About Quieting Your Mind — It’s About Rewiring It
Science reveals meditation doesn’t just calm you — it reshapes your brain, reduces chronic stress at the cellular level, and rebuilds your emotional resilience. Here’s how to turn curiosity into a life-changing habit.
CitrixBleed Strikes Again: Attackers Weaponize NetScaler Memory Leak Within Hours
Attackers wasted little time targeting the latest memory disclosure bug in Citrix NetScaler, exploiting a vulnerability that leaks sensitive data from server memory shortly after researchers published their findings.
Stealing the Foundation: The Long-Term Cognitive Debt of Delegating Schoolwork to AI
A detailed analysis of the 'augmentation trap' in education, explaining how immediate AI-assisted homework boosts mask a 20% drop in independent exam performance and prevent students from building the domain knowledge required to audit AI outputs.
Minding the Wild: Why Ethology Is Essential to Understanding Animal Sentience
Cognitive ethology — the patient, in-habitat study of wild animals' thoughts and feelings — reveals behavioral flexibility as a mark of consciousness. Building on Tinbergen's four questions and Burghardt's fifth aim of "private experience," this article explains why slow watching of wild animals in their natural habitats is irreplaceable for understanding what they think, feel, and adapt to.
“Tragic” Wasn’t the Word We Chose: A Mother’s Journey With Hemiparesis and Disability Pride
When Joy was born with hemiparesis—a form of cerebral palsy affecting one side of her body—her therapist called it tragic. It wasn’t. This is the story of how fear, societal messages, and physical reality intersected—and why July’s Disability Pride Month invites us all to redefine what independence really means.