Friday links: 1986 called, it wants its data mining Easter egg back, and more | Dynamic Ecology
Also this week: changing gender balance of US undergrads in math-intensive majors, brown bears vs. insurance fraud, LLMs vs. electricity demand, LLMs vs. signalling theory, against writing advice, the reverse population bomb, and more. Writing in Science, Cimpian and King use a giant near-census dataset to show that the gender balance of physics, engineering, and…