Articles by Luc
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Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy (wiley.com)

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Bioinspired wettability boundary stabilizes water sloshing (science.org)

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They Droned Back (digitaldigging.org)

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Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu (nature.com)

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A theoretical upper limit for offshore wind energy extraction (cell.com)

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The Source of Europe's Mild Climate (americanscientist.org)

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Fusion isn't the holy grail of energy (nickmcgreivy.substack.com)

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There has to be a better way to make titanium (orcasciences.com)

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Is the Internet Making Culture Worse? (asteriskmag.com)

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130 published cover artworks for William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' (docs.google.com)

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Aligned, Multiple-Transient Events in the First Palomar Sky Survey (iop.org)

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Optimizing the Plush Interpreter for Faster Raytracing (pointersgonewild.com)

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Wearable data shows much higher benefit of high-intensity exercise than presumed (nature.com)

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Chargerless Ray Fitness Tracker (chargerless.xyz)

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The Making of a Market Maker (joincolossus.com)

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Analysis of raw Waymo data shows fundamental safety improvements (twitter.com/slotkinjr)

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Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years (2019) (bbc.com)

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Why Governments Can't Count (asteriskmag.com)

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Codebuff (github.com/codebuffai)

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Geometric and physical interpretation of the action principle (nature.com)

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The AI breakthrough that uses almost no power to create images (techxplore.com)

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Flashbacker: Claude Code state management with session continuity and personas (github.com/agentsea)

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Ghostty Config Generator (zerebos.com)

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Docker container for running Claude Code in "dangerously skip permissions" mode (github.com/tintinweb)

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The hard steps model and whole Earth-system transitions (royalsocietypublishing.org)

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Will Future Civilizations Bother to Excavate Our Remains? (palladiummag.com)

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Creating a Toy Programming Language with Actor-Based Parallelism (pointersgonewild.com)

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Starling reproduces spectrogram drawing [video] (youtube.com)

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Snotel: Remote sensors that communicate by bouncing radio off meteor trails (wikipedia.org)

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Metalorian: Generate Heavy Metal-Binding Peptides with Diffusion Sampling (huggingface.co)

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Highbrow Climate Misinformation (josephheath.substack.com)

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Bumper orders for Xiaomi's new SUV heighten threat to Tesla (reuters.com)

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Anabolic response to protein ingestion during recovery has no upper limit (nih.gov)

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The Ant Mill: How theoretical high-energy physics descended into groupthink (jespergrimstrup.substack.com)

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Historical Tech Tree (historicaltechtree.com)

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Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD) (utah.edu)

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Minimum Viable Music (bucketoverflow.substack.com)

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Warming of 1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets (nature.com)

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OpenAI co-founder wanted to build doomsday bunker to protect company scientists (nypost.com)

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The Mars Vanity Project (quillette.com)

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[flagged] ChatGPT can accurately estimate Body Fat Percentage from photos (annaleptikon.substack.com)

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Chinese 'kill switches' found in US solar farms (telegraph.co.uk)

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Improving Naval Ship Acquisition (construction-physics.com)

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Kosmos 482 Descent Craft reentry forecasts (sattrackcam.blogspot.com)

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Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans (ieee.org)

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Eyeo Color Splitters (eyeo-imaging.com)

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The Inchtuthil Nail Hoard (scottishhistory.org)

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HyLight unveils its airship drone, the HyLighter (medium.com/thomas_78342)

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Review of Scalable Enhanced Rock Weathering (austinvernon.site)

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Investigating truthfulness in a pre-release o3 model (transluce.org)

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There's a Lesson to Learn from Daniel Kahneman's Death (nytimes.com)

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ASI existential risk: reconsidering alignment as a goal (michaelnotebook.com)

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Prompt Engineering Whitepaper (kaggle.com)

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There Are No New Ideas in AI Only New Datasets (substack.com)

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Soleau Envelope (wikipedia.org)

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The Life of a Dairy Cow (vox.com)

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(Book Review) the Anxious Generation (benchugg.com)

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Bambu Lab H2D All-in-One (bambulab.com)

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Oleg Gordievsky Obituary (theguardian.com)

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Painting in Anthocyanins, Installation, 2024 (nathalie-gebert.com)

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Greening the Solar System (asteriskmag.com)

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Effect of Externally Supplied Momentum During Resistance Training (wku.edu)

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Startup Strategy for Commodity Products (austinvernon.site)

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The Selfish Machine (maartenboudry.substack.com)

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Why Has the Number of Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded Since 1960? (escholarship.org)

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A $100 DIY muon tomographer (ieee.org)

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Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone (hforsten.com)

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We Live Like Royalty and Don't Know It (thenewatlantis.com)

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ChatGPT o1 preview and mini Wrote My PhD Code in 1 Hour – What Took Me ~1 Year [video] (youtube.com)

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The World Needs a Plan for the Inevitable Asteroid Strike (bloomberg.com)

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Testing Smart Devices for Handheld Celestial Navigation (srce.hr)

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Differential protection against SARS-CoV-2 reinfection pre- and post-Omicron (nature.com)

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Some Xband Recollections (archive.org)

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100 Or so Books that shaped a Century of Science (1999) (mnstate.edu)

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Bacteria (and their metabolites) and depression (science.org)

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In 36h, I built a neutron-producing nuclear fusor in my kitchen using Claude (twitter.com/hud_zah)

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AI unveils chip designs, while discovering new functionalities (techxplore.com)

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Deep-learning enabled generalized inverse design of passives and ICs (nature.com)

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Experimental verification of an indefinite causal order (science.org)

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Do Insects Feel Pain? (newyorker.com)

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SpaceSim (pavelsevecek.github.io)

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St Andrews researchers solve 200 year volcanic mystery (st-andrews.ac.uk)

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An honest review of my last year building Chessbook (mbuffett.com)

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VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data (twitter.com/alex_avoigt)

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A Study on the Coffee Spilling Phenomenon in the Low Impulse Regime (fermatslibrary.com)

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Quantifying Reputation and Success in Art (science.org)

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How to be a wise optimist about science and technology? (michaelnotebook.com)

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Compare Map Projections (map-projections.net)

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The myth of the loneliness epidemic (asteriskmag.com)

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Every Boeing and Airbus engine is held onto the wing by only 2 bolts (twitter.com/gak_pdx)

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General Velocity-Altitude Flight-Regime Diagram for Aeronautics and Astronautics (aiaa.org)

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A Case Against the Placebo Effect (carcinisation.com)

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Seven lessons I didn't learn from election day (manifold.markets)

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MakeShift: Security Analysis of Shimano Di2 Wireless Gear Shifting in Bicycles [pdf] (usenix.org)

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Storing Files in Chess Games for Free Cloud Storage [video] (youtube.com)

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Gravity is not a force (superposer.substack.com)

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Hacking the T2S+ Out of Fear: Get Lock-In Thermography for Free (dmytroengineering.com)

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AI-accelerated Nazca survey doubles the number of known figurative geoglyphs (pnas.org)

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LibLISA – Instruction Discovery and Analysis on x86-64 (liblisa.nl)

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Optimizing Beer Glass Shapes to Minimize Heat Transfer – New Results (arxiv.org)