Articles by cainxinth
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Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries (lpeproject.org)

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Delete Act (wikipedia.org)

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The Melbourne project turning used tennis balls into shoes (abc.net.au)

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They Were YouTube's First Stars. Here's What They Wish They'd Known (nytimes.com)

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China's Parallel Web Behind the Wall (vale.rocks)

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You Too Could Found a Nation and Become Its President (mostly.substack.com)

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An Interview with Alan Moore (2013) (thebeliever.net)

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Guitar Tuning Nightmares Explained (endino.com)

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'Survivor' Style Corporate Retreat Descends into Hellish Nightmare (thedailybeast.com)

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Is my writing too wet? (samkriss.substack.com)

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The War Against Misinformation Is Over. The Lies Won (thewalrus.ca)

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Getting to Know the Know-It-Alls: On a new history of pedantry (hedgehogreview.com)

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Longitude Rewards (wikipedia.org)

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Dance Your PhD (wikipedia.org)

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There's a reason you don't know (wikipedia.org)

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A Cat-and-Mouse Game of Russian Internet Restrictions and Evasion (nytimes.com)

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The autism spectrum isn't a sliding scale; 39 traits show the complexity (yahoo.com)

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How Fast Do Our Journalists Type? (nytimes.com)

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Game Devs Reveal All Their Ugly Placeholder Assets Made Without AI (kotaku.com)

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Is it a pint? (isitapint.com)

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A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022) (nippon.com)

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Gait Analysis (wikipedia.org)

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People Are Making Money Betting on Pretaped 'Survivor' Episodes (nytimes.com)

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William Gibson vs. Margaret Thatcher (pluralistic.net)

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Stop Killing Games (wikipedia.org)

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Tournament of Books (tournamentofbooks.com)

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The First Compact Disc Player: Sony's 1982 CDP-101 (obsoletesony.substack.com)

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A college student's perspective on using AI in class (npr.org)

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The Early Principles That Guided the Makers of Lego (2017) (longreads.com)

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I Hired a Lab to Counterfeit-Test a Dozen Suspicious Beauty Products (nytimes.com)

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We may soon have 70M boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop (lloydalter.substack.com)

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SCOTUS declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material (reuters.com)

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We the Bacteria. Notes Toward Biotic Architecture (we-make-money-not-art.com)

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Which piece of speculative fiction had the greatest one-day stock market impact? (ft.com)

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Luxury's Overexposure Is Biting (matterbymatter.substack.com)

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Can A.I. Detection Tools Spot Fake Images? (nytimes.com)

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Nicki Minaj's social media propped up by bots, analysis finds (politico.com)

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Adam Mastroianni of Experimental History Interviews Gwern (2025) (gwern.net)

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Test Your Color Memory (dialed.gg)

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It must be hard to publish null results (osf.io)

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AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions (theatlantic.com)

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I Quit My Job at OpenAI (nytimes.com)

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London's most controversial cyclist (the-londoner.co.uk)

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What Happens in a Performer's Brain While Playing Music? (nytimes.com)

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Why China is building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind boom (apnews.com)

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From Fishing Nets to Furniture: Turning Ocean Plastic into Usable Products (nytimes.com)

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KPMG pressed its auditor to pass on AI cost savings (irishtimes.com)

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Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 (gizmodo.com)

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The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025) (ejpe.org)

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Did A.I. Take Your Job? Or Was Your Employer 'A.I.-Washing'? (nytimes.com)

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The Shakers' Utopian World Sees a Surge of Modern Interest (nytimes.com)

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What is a loot box and why is there one at The Pentagon? (taskandpurpose.com)

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Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gift (themarginalian.org)

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Polar Amplification (wikipedia.org)

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How to Speak Davosian – For Beginners (swissinfo.ch)

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Hallucination Stations: Limitations of Transformer-Based Language Models (2025) (arxiv.org)

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Gore Verbinski Discusses Why CGI No Longer Looks Good (butwhytho.net)

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Infinite pancakes, anyone? (nytimes.com)

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Major plumbing headache haunts $13B U.S. aircraft carrier (npr.org)

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Wikipedia: Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you (wikipedia.org)

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Gradient.horse (gradient.horse)

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Bethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster on why he left (pcgamer.com)

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Trying Out Every Exoskeleton at CES (lifehacker.com)

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Portal Space selects 'Space Armor' debris shield for 2026 mission (spacenews.com)

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Prediction Markets Turned Life into a Dystopian Gambling Experiment (theringer.com)

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Car Allowance Rebate System (wikipedia.org)

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Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence (theatlantic.com)

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Road Diet (wikipedia.org)

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Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions (2023) (arxiv.org)

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Looking at 2026 Through the Eyes of 1926 (nytimes.com)

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Rock Paper Scissors Strategies (wrpsa.com)

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Timeline of Reddit (wikipedia.org)

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Phytomining (wikipedia.org)

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NYT Connections LLM Benchmark (github.com/lechmazur)

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Inherently Funny Word (wikipedia.org)

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OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior (technologyreview.com)

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RoboCop Statue Rises in Detroit (theguardian.com)

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Why Does A.I. Write Like That? (nytimes.com)

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A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse (nytimes.com)

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The Nigerian graphic designers bringing African expression to typography (itsnicethat.com)

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Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 (2023) (uncannymagazine.com)

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The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements (2023) (rootsofprogress.org)

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Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades (popularmechanics.com)

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An Escape from India's Air Pollution for Those Who Can Afford It (nytimes.com)

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Disenchanted Enchantment (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Masterworks Sold Investors $1B in Art. Did It Paint Too Rosy a Picture? (nytimes.com)

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Why Don't People Return Their Shopping Carts? (behavioralscientist.org)

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Why do so many people think the Fruit of the Loom logo had a cornucopia? (technologyreview.com)

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The cottage industry manipulating chatbots' replies (telegraph.co.uk)

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iRobot Is in Trouble, but Roomba Is Already Dead (nytimes.com)

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You Shall Know a Word by the Company It Keeps (quoteinvestigator.com)

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AirPower (Apple) (wikipedia.org)

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Florian Schneider Collection: Instruments and equipment up for auction (juliensauctions.com)

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The 'Hands Problem' Holding Back the Humanoid Revolution (wsj.com)

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Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia (nytimes.com)

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Who's Submitting AI-Tainted Filings in Court? (stanford.edu)

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A Plea from Doctors: Cool It on the Supplement (nytimes.com)

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Please Be Polite to ChatGPT (scientificamerican.com)

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After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64 (readonlymemo.com)

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Ken M (wikipedia.org)