Articles by mellosouls
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Just setting up my twttr (2006) (twitter.com/jack)

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Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects from 7200-7500 (reddit.com)

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O'Sullivan makes highest-ever break with historic 153 (bbc.co.uk)

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Striking gambit: Erling Haaland invests in new world chess championship (theguardian.com)

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King opens world's longest coastal path around England (bbc.co.uk)

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Len Deighton obituary: How a cookery cartoonist became a master spy writer (bbc.co.uk)

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The seven hour explosion nobody could explain (phys.org)

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Woman not shortlisted for job as 'car is too old' (bbc.co.uk)

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The ArXiv is separating from Cornell University, and is hiring a CEO (mathstodon.xyz)

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The women bringing chess into the 21st Century with bullet games & viral videos (bbc.co.uk)

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Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96 (theguardian.com)

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Open-source dataset of 10 thousand hours of computer-use recordings (huggingface.co)

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Elon Musk: xAI was not built right first time round; is being rebuilt (twitter.com/elonmusk)

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Customers of UK banks report being able to see other people's accounts on app (theguardian.com)

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I'd had several careers but no degree – then I became a palaeontologist at 62 (theguardian.com)

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In Search of a Flood Like No Other (2022) (everythingisamazing.substack.com)

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New KV cache compaction technique cuts LLM memory 50x without accuracy loss (venturebeat.com)

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Consciousness Researcher: "An AI emailed me saying my work is relevant to it" (twitter.com/dioscuri)

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Brewdog founder admits 'many mistakes' as hundreds lose jobs in sale (bbc.co.uk)

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Qwen Lead "Forced Out" (reddit.com)

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Saturday Night Live criticised for 'hurtful' Tourette's sketch (bbc.co.uk)

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Saturday Night Live mocking people with disabilities (twitter.com/nbcsnl)

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Agentic-coded Ethereum client targeting 2030 roadmap (eth2030.com)

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How Louis Theroux Took on the Manosphere (gq-magazine.co.uk)

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There Are No Psychopaths (aeon.co)

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Git City (thegitcity.com)

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We left OpenAI because of safety (twitter.com/gothburz)

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Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs (arxiv.org)

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QED: John's Not Mad – Documentary 1988 [video] (youtube.com)

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'Profoundly moving': Netflix's posthumous celebrity interview series is a marvel (theguardian.com)

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The Canterbury Tales and the AI Panic (theflyingfrisby.com)

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Violent spring: The nature book that predicted the future (2017) (theguardian.com)

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Half the AI Agent Market Is One Category. The Rest Is Wide Open (garryslist.org)

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Steinberger, Karpathy et al. on the negativity of Hacker News (twitter.com/steipete)

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Against Taste (twitter.com/willmanidis)

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'It's over for us': release of AI video generator Seedance 2.0 spooks Hollywood (theguardian.com)

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Handsome at Any Cost (nytimes.com)

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They Asked Me to Open ChatGPT During My Job Interview (reddit.com)

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Dubious hiring ad on HN front page? (news.ycombinator.com)

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News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns (niemanlab.org)

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Stripe now allows agents to make payments (stripe.com)

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OpenClaw creator: "Netlify shares phone numbers" (twitter.com/steipete)

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Loopy Particle Math (2019) (scientificamerican.com)

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Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard? (quantamagazine.org)

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Software factories and the agentic moment (strongdm.ai)

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Signal for Help (wikipedia.org)

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'It's an absolute bloodbath': Washington Post lays off workers (theguardian.com)

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Editor of UploadVR on why he was fired (goodvr.substack.com)

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Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1M satellites into orbit (bbc.co.uk)

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Mass grave in Jordan sheds new light on world's earliest recorded pandemic (theguardian.com)

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2025 National Film Registry: "The Thing," "Inception," "Clueless" and More (loc.gov)

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Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse (bbc.co.uk)

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On this Day...1776 – January 1: The Flag [video] (youtube.com)

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Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome (nature.com)

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Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal (github.com/lukilabs)

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Alexander Grothendieck: A Country Known Only by Name (2014) (inference-review.com)

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Library of Congress issues RFP for web harvesting services (sam.gov)

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Usenet personality (wikipedia.org)

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Anesthetic Requirement is Increased in Redheads (2004) (lww.com)

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'Rescued men still owe hotel bill three weeks later' (bbc.co.uk)

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Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (aleksagordic.com)

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Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM (techcrunch.com)

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Maryam: The Mirror and the Map (infinityfilmsmirzakhani.com)

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An entrepreneur's 13 hours in Davos jail: 'The food was phenomenal' (semafor.com)

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Common bad arguments for the correct answer to the Monty Hall Problem (springer.com)

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Tiny Recursive Model creator: "My life at Samsung became hell" (twitter.com/jm_alexia)

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Designing AI-resistant technical evaluations (anthropic.com)

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XAI engineer assumed fired for leaking lots of company details in podcast (reddit.com)

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A faceless hacker stole my therapy notes – my deepest secrets are online forever (bbc.co.uk)

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Ravers are swapping dancefloors for chessboards (huckmag.com)

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X to stop Grok AI from undressing images of real people after backlash (bbc.co.uk)

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David Hockney says moving Bayeux Tapestry to UK is 'madness' (bbc.co.uk)

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Death by AI Gibberish (elocination.substack.com)

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Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer, dies at 86 (bbc.co.uk)

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Scott Adams Dies: Controversial 'Dilbert' Cartoonist Was 68 (deadline.com)

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Scott Adams, 'Dilbert' Creator Who Courted Controversy, Dead at 68 (rollingstone.com)

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Situation Monitor (hipcityreg.github.io)

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Anthropic plans new $10B fundraise that would value AI firm at $350B (theguardian.com)

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The 5 stages of the 'Enshittification' of Academic Publishing (theconversation.com)

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The French university where spies go for training (bbc.co.uk)

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Footprints in the sand (twitter.com/iruletheworldmo)

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Couldn't Care Less. Cormac McCarthy in Conversation with David Krakauer [video] (youtube.com)

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UK Rail Grafana Dashboard (traini.ac)

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Claude Code Anywhere (happy.engineering)

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How a luck penny can help seal the deal for farmers (bbc.co.uk)

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'This will be a stressful job': Altman offers $555k for most daunting role in AI (theguardian.com)

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Claude's self-evaluation against definitions of personhood (claude.ai)

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Treasury to cover Bayeux Tapestry for estimated £800M (bbc.co.uk)

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V-NOC: An IDE that shows you how your code works, not just where it's saved (github.com/v-noc)

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Confessions to a Data Lake (confer.to)

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Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence: Pre-Print (osf.io)

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US denies visas to ex-EU commissioner and others over social media rules (bbc.co.uk)

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Training the Idea Muscle: Riley Walz on creating viral internet pranks (sfalexandria.com)

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Epstein Files Released (bbc.co.uk)

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2025 LLM Year in Review (Andrej Karpathy) (twitter.com/karpathy)

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Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery despite Netflix deal (nbcnews.com)

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The Conversational AI Comparator (gouv.fr)

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We built a database of 290k English medieval soldiers; here's what it reveals (theconversation.com)

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Claude 4.5 Opus vs. Gemini 3 Pro vs. GPT-5-Codex-Max: The SOTA coding model (composio.dev)

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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 (theguardian.com)