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Feeding the AI Bots (criticalmas.org)

a week ago | bumbledraven | criticalmas.org | newest

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17-year-old refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago (elpais.com)

a month ago | bumbledraven | elpais.com | newest

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How I program with agents (crawshaw.io)

a month ago | bumbledraven | crawshaw.io | best

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From GnuGo to AlphaGo Zero: A Roadmap for Solving Difficult Problems (moderndescartes.com)

4 months ago | bumbledraven | moderndescartes.com | newest

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The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going to Miss Almost Everything (2011) (npr.org)

5 months ago | bumbledraven | npr.org | frontpage

38

Mass market non-fiction has bad incentives (borretti.me)

6 months ago | bumbledraven | borretti.me | frontpage

1

Arresting Flexibility: A QJE field experiment on policing with ~40 outcome vars (datacolada.org)

7 months ago | bumbledraven | datacolada.org | newest

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Claude Plays GeoGuessr (jerrywei.net)

7 months ago | bumbledraven | jerrywei.net | newest

2

Air-Gapped Computers Can Communicate Through Heat (2015) (securityweek.com)

8 months ago | bumbledraven | securityweek.com | newest

2

The Empirical World Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (jiggerwit.wordpress.com)

11 months ago | bumbledraven | wordpress.com | newest

2

How to hide information from yourself in a solo RPG (sigfpe.com)

11 months ago | bumbledraven | sigfpe.com | newest

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Eye of Sauron: Hidden Spy Camera Detection with Memory EM Radiation (2024) [pdf] (usenix.org)

a year ago | bumbledraven | usenix.org | newest

3

Donkey Kong Arcade Illusion (twitter.com/akiyoshikitaoka)

a year ago | bumbledraven | twitter.com | frontpage

4

Death Valley could break world heat record (foxla.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | foxla.com | frontpage

1

The Great MEV Heist (dshr.org)

a year ago | bumbledraven | dshr.org | newest

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Requirements for Digital Preservation Systems (dlib.org)

a year ago | bumbledraven | dlib.org | newest

3

When Tommy Rath Vanished from 'The Jungle' (nytimes.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | nytimes.com | newest

2

Five Nine Problems (specbranch.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | specbranch.com | newest

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How to find a location using only the shadow [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | youtube.com | newest

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Proof: Little's Law (Why to Limit WIP) (fuza.co.uk)

a year ago | bumbledraven | fuza.co.uk | newest

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AI Is Helping Referee Games in Major Sports Leagues, but Limitations Remain (scientificamerican.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | scientificamerican.com | newest

2

You Can't Handle the Buddhabrot (lcamtuf.substack.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | substack.com | frontpage

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How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English (theguardian.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | theguardian.com | newest

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Jane Street Accuses Millennium, Ex-Traders of Stealing Strategy (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | bloomberg.com | newest

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3D animation of Conway's Game of Life using time as the z-axis (instagram.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | instagram.com | newest

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Monte-Carlo graph search from first principles (github.com/lightvector)

a year ago | bumbledraven | github.com | best

2

C.C. Myers, construction giant famed for rebuilding Calif. freeways, dies at 85 (sacbee.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | sacbee.com | newest

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Casting the Decisive Vote (tobyord.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | tobyord.com | newest

2

Principles of Eventual Consistency (2014) [pdf] (microsoft.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | microsoft.com | newest

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Better Spatial Geometries for Clustering Algorithms (bramcohen.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | bramcohen.com | newest

2

How I created a poker solver and made $500k at the age of 23 (medium.com/olegostroumov)

a year ago | bumbledraven | medium.com | frontpage

1

Python Variables, References and Mutability (bitecode.dev)

a year ago | bumbledraven | bitecode.dev | newest

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The state of merging technology (bramcohen.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | bramcohen.com | frontpage

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Primer: Core Concepts in Electronic Circuits (lcamtuf.substack.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | substack.com | newest

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Ilya Sutskever has become invisible at OpenAI, his future uncertain (businessinsider.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | businessinsider.com | best

0

A Conversation with OpenAI's Sam Altman and Mira Murati (wsj.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | wsj.com | newest

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Embracing the Ouroboros (skventures.substack.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | substack.com | newest

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Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level (cr.yp.to)

a year ago | bumbledraven | yp.to | best

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What OpenAI Really Wants (wired.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | wired.com | frontpage

0

The Cosmic Distance Ladder [pdf] (files.wordpress.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | wordpress.com | newest

232

C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness (swtch.com)

a year ago | bumbledraven | swtch.com | best

4

Where Does Grounded Electricity Go? (practical.engineering)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | practical.engineering | newest

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Tap Code (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | wikipedia.org | newest

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Non-Euclidean Geometry Explained - Hyperbolica Devlog #1 (youtube.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | youtube.com | newest

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How to create a game using hyperbolic geometry? (2020) (roguetemple.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | roguetemple.com | best

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Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? (practical.engineering)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | practical.engineering | newest

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The Geopolitics of AI Chips Will Define the Future of AI (forbes.com/sites/robtoews)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | forbes.com | newest

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We Need to Let Go of the Bell Curve (hbr.org)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | hbr.org | newest

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[dupe] GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam (scottaaronson.blog)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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GPT-4 Takes a New Midterm and Gets an A (betonit.substack.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | substack.com | frontpage

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I.J. Good’s report on machine intelligence for IBM (1959) (twitter.com/sylvaingigan)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | twitter.com | newest

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Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems (arxiv.org)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | arxiv.org | best

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Can GPT pass my programming courses? (lemire.me)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | lemire.me | newest

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An Undecidable Diophantine Equation (takingthefun.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | takingthefun.com | newest

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GPT-4 Technical Report [pdf] (openai.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | openai.com | newest

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Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI, by Reid Hoffman with GPT-4 [pdf] (impromptubook.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | impromptubook.com | newest

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A Look at Bank Solvency (lynalden.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | lynalden.com | newest

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Is Chat GPT Biased Against Conservatives? An Empirical Study (ssrn.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | ssrn.com | newest

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Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease (2015) (nature.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | nature.com | newest

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A new class of drugs for weight loss could end obesity (economist.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | economist.com | frontpage

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Do no harm: can school mental health interventions cause iatrogenic harm? [pdf] (cambridge.org)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | cambridge.org | frontpage

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The Spanish Dehesa (twitter.com/samdknowlton)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | twitter.com | newest

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Is the myth of left-wing authoritarianism itself a myth? (frontiersin.org)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | frontiersin.org | newest

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Be Healthy and Schedule Your Annual Wellness Visit (blackliszt.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | blackliszt.com | newest

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Japanese dictionary and spaced repetition learning system (jpdb.io)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | jpdb.io | newest

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The Value of Colon Cancer Screening (blackliszt.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | blackliszt.com | newest

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What happened with the substation attack in North Carolina? (practical.engineering)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | practical.engineering | best

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Why upper respiratory infections are more common in colder temperatures (eurekalert.org)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | eurekalert.org | newest

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Flu Shots Propaganda and Reality (blackliszt.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | blackliszt.com | newest

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How pencil tire pressure gauges work (oppedahl.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | oppedahl.com | frontpage

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What is a black start of the power grid? (practical.engineering)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | practical.engineering | best

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Big Tech's Surprisingly Weak Case for Affirmative Action (themissingdatadepot.substack.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | substack.com | newest

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How Would a Nuclear EMP Affect the Power Grid? (practical.engineering)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | practical.engineering | newest

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How long would society last during a total grid collapse? (practical.engineering)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | practical.engineering | best

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A Brief Note on Bad Faith (themissingdatadepot.substack.com)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | substack.com | newest

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Classifying Minds (incoherency.co.uk)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | incoherency.co.uk | frontpage

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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts (2020) (lemire.me)

2 years ago | bumbledraven | lemire.me | best

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The stealthy raid on our bank accounts

2 years ago | bumbledraven | danielamerman.com | frontpage

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Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format

2 years ago | bumbledraven | microsoftpressstore.com | best

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Doggerland

3 years ago | bumbledraven | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Drone Airspace: A New Global Asset Class

3 years ago | bumbledraven | cspicenter.com | newest