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Google owner Alphabet drops promise over 'harmful' AI uses (bbc.co.uk)

9 hours ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk (bbc.co.uk)

19 hours ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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[dupe] A Chinese AI advancement called DeepSeek is sending US stocks plunging (cnn.com)

a week ago | ColinWright | cnn.com | newest

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Computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on X during 2024 election [pdf] (qut.edu.au)

a week ago | ColinWright | qut.edu.au | newest

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Harvard-trained expert: I have anxiety (cnbc.com)

a week ago | ColinWright | cnbc.com | frontpage

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How to survive the second Trump era (forkingpaths.co)

2 weeks ago | ColinWright | forkingpaths.co | newest

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Kalman Filter Tutorial (kalmanfilter.net)

2 weeks ago | ColinWright | kalmanfilter.net | best

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Characters in Moby Dick according to Google ... I don't remember Yosemite Sam (solipsys.co.uk)

2 weeks ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | frontpage

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How do playing cards work? No one knows (polygon.com)

2 weeks ago | ColinWright | polygon.com | frontpage

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The Surprising Afterlife of Used Hotel Soap (getpocket.com)

2 weeks ago | ColinWright | getpocket.com | newest

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Say bye to Tesla Cybertruck: Elon Musk announces decision after fall in sales (ecoportal.net)

2 weeks ago | ColinWright | ecoportal.net | frontpage

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First carbon-14 diamond battery (bristol.ac.uk)

2 weeks ago | ColinWright | bristol.ac.uk | newest

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Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia (esa.int)

2 weeks ago | ColinWright | esa.int | newest

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I built a QR code with my bare hands to see how it works [video] (youtube.com)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | frontpage

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Dark patterns: It's not a real checkbox, but an SVG lookalike (mathstodon.xyz)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | newest

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Artificial Intelligence: Plan to 'unleash AI' across UK revealed (bbc.co.uk)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Stories from the Internet (dbrgn.ch)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | dbrgn.ch | frontpage

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Software Folklore (tuxen.de)

2 weeks ago | ColinWright | tuxen.de | frontpage

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Grant Sanderson: How They Fool Ya [video] (youtube.com)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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Sloane's Gap [video] (youtube.com)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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[dupe] Meta policy update: Calling women 'household objects' now permitted on Facebook (cnn.com)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | cnn.com | newest

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[dupe] The Bitcoin-on-a-hard-drive-in-rubbish-dump case report (bailii.org)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | bailii.org | newest

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Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics (stephenwolfram.com)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | stephenwolfram.com | best

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"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" – A 40-year book-quest (davidallengreen.com)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | davidallengreen.com | best

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How can pip install –user break system packages? (gist.github.com)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | github.com | newest

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Free Speech for TikTok? (nybooks.com)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | nybooks.com | newest

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Can AI models reason like a human? (johndcook.com)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | johndcook.com | newest

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Graphing the connections between my blog posts (shkspr.mobi)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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Tuariki Delamere's somersault turned the sport of long jump on its head (thespinoff.co.nz)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | thespinoff.co.nz | newest

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I'm the Governor of Hawaii. I've Seen What Vaccine Skepticism Can Do (nytimes.com)

4 weeks ago | ColinWright | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Quick Change Directory (johndcook.com)

4 weeks ago | ColinWright | johndcook.com | newest

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The Beer Game: messing with the minds of thousands since the 1960s (twitter.com/logtech1999)

4 weeks ago | ColinWright | twitter.com | newest

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You're Probably Wrong About Rainbows [video] (youtube.com)

4 weeks ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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Elsevier rewrites academic papers with AI – without telling editors or authors (pivot-to-ai.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | pivot-to-ai.com | frontpage

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Generative AI Is a Parasitic Cancer (mastodon.social)

a month ago | ColinWright | mastodon.social | frontpage

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What Liberal Arts Education Is For (innig.net)

a month ago | ColinWright | innig.net | newest

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Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (2013) (coding2learn.org)

a month ago | ColinWright | coding2learn.org | frontpage

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Most people don't care about quality (shkspr.mobi)

a month ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | best

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Wishing Everyone a Happy Solsthelion (solipsys.co.uk)

a month ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | frontpage

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How bad is link-rot on my blog? (shkspr.mobi)

a month ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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Pony (Programming Language) (ponylang.io)

a month ago | ColinWright | ponylang.io | newest

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Powering an E-Bike using Disposable Vape Batteries [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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Data Detox Kit (datadetoxkit.org)

a month ago | ColinWright | datadetoxkit.org | newest

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The Map of Mathematics [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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Failures of Web Search Engines (mrob.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | mrob.com | newest

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Wishing Everyone a Happy Solsthelion !!

a month ago | ColinWright | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Bureaucracy (fraser.name)

a month ago | ColinWright | fraser.name | newest

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Love Your Bugs (wizardzines.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | wizardzines.com | newest

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Geared Icosahedron Net [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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On the nature of computing science (1984) (utexas.edu)

a month ago | ColinWright | utexas.edu | best

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OpenAI's Next Big AI Effort, GPT-5, Is Behind Schedule and Crazy Expensive (archive.ph)

a month ago | ColinWright | archive.ph | newest

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Language and Personality (solipsys.co.uk)

a month ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | frontpage

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We Don't Have to Destroy Ourselves (forkingpaths.co)

a month ago | ColinWright | forkingpaths.co | newest

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Uncertainty is part of being human, so how can we learn to live with it? (theguardian.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | theguardian.com | frontpage

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The parents who insist home-education is the answer for their children (bbc.co.uk)

a month ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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LLMs and Regular Expressions (johndcook.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | johndcook.com | newest

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Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit (2008) (swtch.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | swtch.com | newest

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BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline (bbc.co.uk)

a month ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Classic HN: The Story of Mel (1983,1992,1999,2001,2002) (catb.org)

a month ago | ColinWright | catb.org | newest

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A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green." (theguardian.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Itch.io is currently down: an AI bot thinks it found a brand violation (tech.lgbt)

a month ago | ColinWright | tech.lgbt | newest

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Mathematics and Art: The Large Herisson Project (chalkdustmagazine.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | chalkdustmagazine.com | newest

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Creating a generic "Log-in with Mastodon" service (shkspr.mobi)

a month ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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Bi-elliptic transfer orbit maneuver (johndcook.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | johndcook.com | frontpage

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Out of our depth: speaking with whales (canadiangeographic.ca)

a month ago | ColinWright | canadiangeographic.ca | newest

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Pomaranč: "A Celestial Spectacle Captured…" (mastodon.social)

a month ago | ColinWright | mastodon.social | newest

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The Material Foundations of Intellectual Production (currentaffairs.org)

3 months ago | ColinWright | currentaffairs.org | newest

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Bluesky intends their indexing to be used by third parties (write.as)

3 months ago | ColinWright | write.as | frontpage

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The Broom Method – How NASA detects hydrogen leaks (minimuseum.com)

3 months ago | ColinWright | minimuseum.com | newest

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Can a Comma Solve a Crime? (thedial.world)

3 months ago | ColinWright | thedial.world | newest

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La Salle Causeway (fraser.name)

3 months ago | ColinWright | fraser.name | newest

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Self Hosting Is an Unhelpful Term (shkspr.mobi)

3 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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A Genius for Mimicry (nybooks.com)

3 months ago | ColinWright | nybooks.com | newest

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Bluesky getting money from a lot of investors and you're the product (mathstodon.xyz)

3 months ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | newest

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Bluesky and Enshittification (pluralistic.net)

3 months ago | ColinWright | pluralistic.net | newest

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Without Sky: Social Media and the End of Reality (america2.news)

3 months ago | ColinWright | america2.news | newest

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Braintree API knocks PayPal offline for hours (theregister.com)

3 months ago | ColinWright | theregister.com | newest

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The street finds its own use for the Internet of Things (shkspr.mobi)

3 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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[flagged] We're going to see the return of diseases we have controlled for decades (geneticliteracyproject.org)

3 months ago | ColinWright | geneticliteracyproject.org | frontpage

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Under Electric Candle Light (shkspr.mobi)

3 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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GitHub for Mathematicians (code4math.org)

3 months ago | ColinWright | code4math.org | newest

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AI Chatbot Joins Mushroom Hunters Group, Encourages Cooking Dangerous Mushroom (gizmodo.com)

3 months ago | ColinWright | gizmodo.com | frontpage

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National Cipher Challenge 2024 – University of Southampton (cipherchallenge.org)

3 months ago | ColinWright | cipherchallenge.org | newest

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Terence Tao: A little bit of math can go a long way (mathstodon.xyz)

3 months ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | newest

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Chandler Davis: Funded in Part by the Federal Prison System ... (mathstodon.xyz)

3 months ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | newest

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The Onion wins auction to take control of Alex Jones's Infowars (washingtonpost.com)

3 months ago | ColinWright | washingtonpost.com | newest

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The Negro Motorist Green Book ... created a kind of parallel universe (wikipedia.org)

3 months ago | ColinWright | wikipedia.org | newest

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Steven Rudich (1961-2024) (computationalcomplexity.org)

3 months ago | ColinWright | computationalcomplexity.org | frontpage

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The Unofficial Hacker News FAQ (jacquesmattheij.com)

3 months ago | ColinWright | jacquesmattheij.com | newest

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The Doodle Theorem, and Beyond (2016) (chalkdustmagazine.com)

3 months ago | ColinWright | chalkdustmagazine.com | frontpage

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"You've Got " AOL sound files (aolsucks.org)

3 months ago | ColinWright | aolsucks.org | frontpage

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ActivityBot – the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots (shkspr.mobi)

3 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | frontpage

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The Taming of the Screw (2000) (si.edu)

3 months ago | ColinWright | si.edu | frontpage

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Math and puzzle fans find magic in Martin Gardner's legacy (scientificamerican.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | scientificamerican.com | best

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'An incurable romantic': The boy who lived a secret life in World of Warcraft (bbc.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | bbc.com | frontpage

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Don't Be a Jerk

4 months ago | ColinWright | ycombinator.com | newest

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Russian State TV Channels Demand 2 Undecillion Rubles from Google (united24media.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | united24media.com | newest

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When are two proofs essentially the same? (2007) (gowers.wordpress.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | wordpress.com | best

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Billionaire Villains and the Evolution of Overconfidence (forkingpaths.co)

4 months ago | ColinWright | forkingpaths.co | newest

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A Man Who Found the Biggest Prime [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest