Articles by andsoitis
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Elon Musk's foundation is opaque, miserly and self-serving (economist.com)

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Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012) (sive.rs)

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Winnie-the-Pooh at 100 (nypl.org)

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Musk Foundation (influencewatch.org)

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Largest Foundations in the World (howstuffworks.com)

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Largest Private Grantmaking Foundations in the United States (philanthropy.org)

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Data everywhere, but are they fit for purpose? (science.org)

3

What's behind the big interest in miniatures? (economist.com)

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Terry Tao Book Tour: NYC, Boston, Kansas City (mailchi.mp)

3

Disney Bids on Character.ai Assets as Chatbot Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (variety.com)

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China is building AI data centers at speed as the US wrestles with the costs (mezha.net)

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China races to build data centres in bid for AI supremacy (ft.com)

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In 5 years, 95% of tokens used by AI agents will be for tasks humans never did (twitter.com/levie)

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Lüften, or 'home burping,' yields sweet smell of success for your home (cpr.org)

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Linus Torvalds Endures a Debug Session from Hell, "Enormously Helped" by AI (phoronix.com)

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The soul of maintaining a new machine (worksinprogress.co)

4

The economic folly of free buses (economist.com)

4

What Makes a Good Notebook (scrively.org)

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Creative Fuel Prompts (fromthepencup.wordpress.com)

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Danny Ische draws pixels, cross-stitch and paperclips – all with a trusty pencil (creativeboom.com)

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Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis (economist.com)

2

Data Centers around the world (12,000+) (datacenters.com)

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Google Data Centers around the world (datacenters.google)

4

Don't feel sorry for millennials. They are living it up now (economist.com)

2

Asking the Dutch Central Government a question on X (government.nl)

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The maverick scientist trying to save coffee from extinction (economist.com)

2

Do you need to walk 10k steps a day? (economist.com)

4

Superstar podcasts are Silicon Valley's way of talking to itself (economist.com)

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Netflix trailer for miniseries about Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange (engadget.com)

1

A Nobel for illuminating life's asymmetry (economist.com)

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Tools Ecosystem (100r.ca)

2

Rabbit Waves (rabbitwaves.ca)

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To opt out of using your X data for Grok training (twitter.com/grok)

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Even AGI Can't Estimate a Jira Ticket (morgin.ai)

4

Building trades unions come out in strong support of data-center build-out (apnews.com)

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Practical Foundations for Programming Languages [pdf] (univr.it)

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Yuval Noah Harari on the economic and political perils of AI (economist.com)

3

The quiet tycoons powering Africa's rise (economist.com)

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Argentina Wants to Let AI Own Companies (forbes.com/sites/anishasircar)

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We must not grant AI agents legal personhood (ft.com)

2

Yuval Harari: AIs will control civilisation and what it would mean to be human (economist.com)

2

Japan's music cafés are striking a chord abroad (economist.com)

1

All Your Heroes Were on Drugs (medium.com/belover)

2

Level up your life by starting a side quest (npr.org)

1

What Is Braille? (afb.org)

1

Moonlander Ergonomic Keyboard (zsa.io)

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To become a better writer, read as much as you can (nappertime.com)

3

The dark underbelly of "Paw Patrol" (economist.com)

2

Thalamocortical Circuit Motifs: A General Framework (2019) (sciencedirect.com)

3

Britain would be bonkers to ditch Palantir (economist.com)

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Sweden became a country of big-state libertarians (economist.com)

3

Stock indices no longer reflect equity reality (economist.com)

2

Can Reddit survive in the AI era? (economist.com)

27

Could AIs Become Conscious? (economist.com)

1

Bun 1.4 Released (github.com/oven-sh)

1

The Large Hadron Collider: 1984 – 2017 (cern.ch)

2

Satellites and artificial intelligence are transforming wildfire detection (theguardian.com)

4

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024) (epfl.ch)

2

God Save the Red Queen Competition in Co-Evolutionary Robotics (1997) (epfl.ch)

2

Big tech meets Milton Friedman (semafor.com)

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Apple tests Chinese memory chips (semafor.com)

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Google doesn't need the LLM crown (semafor.com)

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The surprising effects of Europe's heatwaves (economist.com)

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How much would you pay for a smarter baby? (economist.com)

2

Bees make decisions better and faster than we do (mq.edu.au)

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Inhibitory synapses influence signals in the brain with high precision (maxplanckneuroscience.org)

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Decision-making and action selection in insects (nih.gov)

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How the World Was Wired (economist.com)

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The case for overhauling American science (economist.com)

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The Human-Computer Interaction handbook (books.google.com)

2

Alphabet's SpaceX bet grows 100-fold over a decade to $94B (reuters.com)

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Reed Hastings on life after Netflix and the coming 'creative destruction' (semafor.com)

2

Playing to Learn (observed.life)

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Meraki (μεράκι): Infusing Purpose and Passion into Every Moment (statecashmere.com)

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Meraki: An Ancient Greek Secret for a Rich Life (medium.com/mind-cafe)

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Meraki – Infusing Purpose and Passion into Every Moment (statecashmere.com)

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Silicon Valley's AI boom is remaking American charity (economist.com)

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Bounded Asynchrony and Nested Parallelism for Scalable Graph Processing (tamu.edu)

2

There are two kinds of theorems (plover.com)

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AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users (economist.com)

1

War and Peace (ourworldindata.org)

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Share of Global CO₂ Emissions (ourworldindata.org)

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The Measure of Intelligence (arxiv.org)

2

llambda.lisp: Bare-Metal, Multi-Threaded, AVX2-Accelerated LLM inf eng in CL (funcall.blogspot.com)

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America really might restore democracy to Venezuela (economist.com)

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Stunning Eclipse turns daylight into darkness across Europe (bbc.co.uk)

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Roku's AI slop channel is worse than expected (theguardian.com)

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Ultrarare Nintendo Mario game cartridges discovered in Wisconsin (apnews.com)

2

Circumstantial Complexity, LLMs and Large Scale Architecture (datagubbe.se)

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User Interfaces of the Demo Scene (datagubbe.se)

2

If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them (theguardian.com)

2

Hooray for index funds–just don't call them passive (economist.com)

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The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood (whdh.com)

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[flagged] Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies (economist.com)

2

Nvidia's Great Silicon Showdown (economist.com)

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YouTube is on a major decluttering mission (fastcompany.com)

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The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment (economist.com)

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Electrostates vs. petrostates: the US, China, and the Hormuz energy shock (brookings.edu)

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The Field Is Optional. The Death Threats Were Not (canartuc.medium.com)

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Olix raises $312M from Netflix's Reed Hastings, Arm, to build Nvidia rival (techfundingnews.com)