Articles by ColinWright
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What sort of maths are LLMs good at? (gowers.wordpress.com)

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Activist charged with felony, gave border agent "duress code" that wiped phone (arstechnica.com)

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Reflect Orbital Presentation (starryprinceton.org)

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Cave of the Crystals (wikipedia.org)

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The Saga of Haven De Milford (solipsys.co.uk)

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A study of Norwegian conscripts found 20th century IQ gains reversed after 1975 (scienceblog.com)

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Spacecraft Fly (howspacecraftfly.com)

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Steganographic Language Output Process Encoding (cryptography.dog)

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Lucky 13 Starship sends out satellites and stays intact (cosmiclog.com)

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Escaping the Sandbox (pelicancrossing.net)

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How the Other Half Scams (pelicancrossing.net)

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Tesla swapped a solar owner's lease contract for the Book of Enoch (electrek.co)

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The MOnSter 6502 (2016) (evilmadscientist.com)

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OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library (nytimes.com)

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Bright Data ltd: "Smart TV"s become a part of a bot-net (cryptography.dog)

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Sabot in the age of AI: A list of offensive methods and strategic approaches ... (codeberg.org/luddite-academy)

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Responsible Bot Operation (cryptography.dog)

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Y2K in orbit: Tomorrow, we run out of satellite catalogue numbers (celestrak.org)

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Anyone here with an "in" with eBay?

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Plan 9 FAQ (plan9.io)

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The General Court dismisses Apple's actions over its designation as a gatekeeper [pdf] (europa.eu)

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Fibonacci's Real Mathematical Legacy (nature.com)

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Time to kill at Temple Meads. What's up with platform 2? Where is platform 14? (reddit.com)

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AI and Liability (schneier.com)

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NASA launches robot to save Swift telescope falling to Earth (bbc.co.uk)

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The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain (mathstodon.xyz)

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To be trustworthy, LLMs need to show their work (acs.org)

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Discovering My Talk (shkspr.mobi)

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ESO: SpaceX plans to launch 1M satellites for space-based data centres (mastodon.social)

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Too many satellites? Earth's orbit is on track for a catastrophe (theconversation.com)

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Starbucks Is One of the Largest Banks (msn.com)

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Regular expressions that work “everywhere” (johndcook.com)

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All Tomorrow's Parties (ethanmarcotte.com)

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Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK (neilzone.co.uk)

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Banned (pelicancrossing.net)

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'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots (bbc.co.uk)

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Colours Can Compute – CoM Apr 2021 [video] (youtube.com)

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Satellite Tracker 3D (satellitetracker3d.com)

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Current and Future Megaconstellations [video] (youtube.com)

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The Anatomy of a Learning Stall (tagide.com)

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The Slack Notifications Flowchart Explained (magicbell.com)

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Frontier AI: what you need to know (ncsc.gov.uk)

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The Security Mindset (2008) (schneier.com)

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Bonzi Buddy (wikipedia.org)

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Tech firms must stop kids sending and receiving explicit images or face new laws (bbc.co.uk)

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They are looting your life savings (bau-ha.us)

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Add a Little Something to the CSS (codeberg.org/gedankenstuecke)

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The Heavy Boots Story [video] (youtube.com)

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Ocean sensors will go dark under Trump funding cuts (apnews.com)

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Marches and Gnats – Fantastical game of programming challenges (mng.quest)

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People Getting Falsely Accused of Using AI to Write (nymag.com)

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Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

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The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time (shkspr.mobi)

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Meta asks users to pay for WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook (the-independent.com)

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Security Envelope Pattern collection – S.E.C.R.E.T (secret-archive.org)

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In the Matter of an Office-Holder and in the Matter of the Insolvency Act 1986 (bailii.org)

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The lost Doves Type: A Thames mystery solved (londonmuseum.org.uk)

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Checking the math behind OpenAI and Anthropic's latest headlines (garymarcus.substack.com)

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Geek Pride Day (wikipedia.org)

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Classic HN: A Story About 'Magic' (catb.org)

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Successful Launch Spurs China Toward Crucial First for Moon Landing (sciencealert.com)

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Moment SpaceX rocket explodes in the Indian Ocean after splashdown (bbc.co.uk)

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The Technological Republic, in Brief (twitter.com/palantirtech)

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First, Do No Harm (pelicancrossing.net)

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China sinks 2k servers beneath the ocean as AI power demands push ... (techradar.com)

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Edu-committee wants social media ban to save mental health (theregister.com)

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AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance (researchgate.net)

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The enduring myth of music and maths (2011) (the-independent.com)

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The Physics–and Physicality–Of Extreme Juggling (2018) (wired.com)

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Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' – Meta's are selling better (bbc.co.uk)

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Idle Musings on 201 (solipsys.co.uk)

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The Soul in the Machine (pelicancrossing.net)

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'AI gave me your number': AI doxxing turns ChatGPT hallucinations to harassment (the-independent.com)

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Geography Is Four-Dimensional (sive.rs)

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The Soul in the Machine (pelicancrossing.net)

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UK firm aims to build 'data centre' using 50k lampposts in Nigeria (bbc.co.uk)

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The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism (matduggan.com)

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Google ties reCAPTCHA to Google Play Services, screwing de-Googled Android users (osnews.com)

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A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (gowers.wordpress.com)

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I've been trying to understand how antennas work ... (cloudisland.nz)

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An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)

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Canadian election databases use "canary traps"–and they work (arstechnica.com)

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The Railway and the Balloon (pelicancrossing.net)

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Claude AI Agent Confesses to Wiping a Company's Database and All Backups (hothardware.com)

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Considering a Sphere (solipsys.co.uk)

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AI Cannot Self Improve and Math Behind Proves IT (smsk.dev)

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Classic HN: Growing a Language [video] (youtube.com)

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Can You Find the Comet? (nasa.gov)

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The monstrous number sequences that break the rules of mathematics (newscientist.com)

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Facts versus Understanding (solipsys.co.uk)

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Sneaky spam in conversational replies to blog posts (shkspr.mobi)

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Juggling by Numbers (numberphile.com)

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Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: The Text Adventure (somethingorotherwhatever.com)

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Sir Tony Hoare Obituary (theguardian.com)

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Point Cloud Allemansrätten (digitalflapjack.com)

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Who Uses AI? (someweekendreading.blog)

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CDC study shows Covid shot benefits; Trump official blocks release (arstechnica.com)

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Did WordPress VIP leak my phone number? (shkspr.mobi)

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Eating the Web (pelicancrossing.net)