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Do 5% Less (johndcook.com)

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Faith-Based Futurism (joebot.xyz)

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[flagged] Dead Internet (2023) (darkfutura.substack.com)

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The Cauchy distribution's counter-intuitive behavior (johndcook.com)

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Neat Randomized Algorithms: RandDiag for Rapidly Diagonalizing Normal Matrices (ethanepperly.com)

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Quantised Inertia: From Anomalies to New Physics (aetherczar.substack.com)

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The A+B Theorem (treeofwoe.substack.com)

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The Problem with the "Hard Problem" (edwardfeser.blogspot.com)

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Foundations of Physical Theory: Function of Models (aetherczar.substack.com)

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The Long March into Space (2021) (bismarckanalysis.com)

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The Mystics of Progress (2023) (isaacyoung.substack.com)

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Tips for Authors (jmilne.org)

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Why Russia Doesn't Want to Liberalize (palladiummag.com)

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World War 100 (treeofwoe.substack.com)

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Ask HN: What is the best LLM API with raw probabilities and backtracking?

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Group actions and hashing unordered multisets (2021) (jeremykun.com)

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What Is America? (1922) (gkc.org.uk)

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Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (1974) (paulgraham.com)

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Farewell to Bourgeois Kings (2021) (tinkzorg.wordpress.com)

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Eigenvector Centrality (johndcook.com)

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God Hates Singletons (palladiummag.com)

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Understanding Positive Definite Matrices (gregorygundersen.com)

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Uncertainty and Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: What Probability Is 1 (wmbriggs.com)

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Duct Tape Value Creation (johndcook.com)

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Simplifying computing systems by having fewer kinds of graphics (2015) (dercuano.github.io)

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SDFs and Hilbert Curves (conorstokes.github.io)

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The Speed of Gravity What the Experiments Say (1998) (archive.org)

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Decoding Complexity (2012) (j-node.blogspot.com)

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The Parable of the Seasteader (treeofwoe.substack.com)

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Mediasaurus (1993) (wired.com)

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EA Has a Lying Problem (srconstantin.wordpress.com)

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The Managerial Menace (eugyppius.com)

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Curved Coordinate Systems and Fictitious Forces (mathpages.com)

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Edge detection doesn’t explain line drawing (aaronhertzmann.com)

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Four characterizations of the normal distribution (2008) (johndcook.com)

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On Sophistical Refutations (infomotions.com)

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Sub-Pixel Distance Transform (acko.net)

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Multiplication via Parabola (johndcook.com)

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Statistical Geometry (john-art.com)

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Period Three and Chaos (plover.com)

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ChatGPT vs. Herbie (pavpanchekha.com)

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Dogma and Habit (headbirths.wordpress.com)

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General System Behavior and Morphology (draftymanor.com)

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Thoughts on AI and AI-Veganism (marginalia.nu)

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Newton's Bucket (st-andrews.ac.uk)

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Data Can Be Overrated (joseduarte.com)

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Powers of a 2×2 matrix in closed form (johndcook.com)

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Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory (im1776.com)

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How to Represent Multi-Dimensional Rotations, Including Boosts (av8n.com)

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Epistemology Is a Puzzle (treeofwoe.substack.com)

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Greatest Prime Factor (linas.org)

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Contraharmonic Mean (johndcook.com)

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Reflections on the Bitter Lesson (2020) (beren.io)

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From Out Shuffles to Multiplicative Order (susam.net)

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Relaxations in Optimization (stevensoojin.kim)

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Against Free Trade (treeofwoe.substack.com)

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Cognitive decoupling and banana phones (2019) (drossbucket.com)

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A professor found her name on an article she didn’t write. Then it got worse (retractionwatch.com)

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Build vs. Buy (two-wrongs.com)

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The problem is not that people are not turning to real journalism anymore (dercuano.github.io)

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The Gelfand Principle, or how to choose educational examples (dercuano.github.io)

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POV-Ray Hall of Fame (povray.org)

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What Is a Law of Nature? (edwardfeser.com)

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Resolving the Liar’s Paradox (steve-patterson.com)

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Strawson on free will and interpersonal relationships (edwardfeser.blogspot.com)

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Clever vs. Insightful Code (hillelwayne.com)

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Is AI Alignable, Even in Principle? (treeofwoe.substack.com)

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Why experts are bad teachers and who you should learn from instead (jakobschwichtenberg.com)

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at Disinformation (tabletmag.com)

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Unlimited Powers (mathenchant.wordpress.com)

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Scaling Factors for Hidden Markov Models (gregorygundersen.com)

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Ghost Knowledge (rationalconspiracy.com)

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A rant on LLaMA: please stop training giant language models (severelytheoretical.wordpress.com)

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The Wisdom of Naram-SIM (treeofwoe.substack.com)

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Book Review: Deschooling Society (jakobschwichtenberg.com)

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Fast Food for the Mind (treeofwoe.substack.com)

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Naturalism and Supernaturalism (tylerjourneauxgraham.wordpress.com)

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2D Liquid Simulator with Cellular Automaton (2017) (jgallant.com)

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Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (2021) (bjlkeng.github.io)

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Dirac's belt trick, Topology, and Spin ½ particles (youtube.com)

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The Absurdity of Income Tax (treeofwoe.substack.com)

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Trust Networks: How We Know Things (2022) (jsanilac.com)

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Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory (1971) (researchgate.net)

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One long circular argument (2017) (claremontreviewofbooks.com)

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Scientific Regress (2016) (firstthings.com)

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Rational Trigonometry (stijnoomes.com)

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Why Determinants with Columns of Ones? (johndcook.com)

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Form by Matter, and Matter by Form (appliedcomplexity.substack.com)

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Higher Roots and R-Means

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