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Gas-powered leaf blowers: The end is nigh (2021) (fallows.substack.com)

2 years ago | mhb | substack.com | best

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The University of California is using graduating high school as a proxy for race (twitter.com/stevemilleroc)

2 years ago | mhb | twitter.com | newest

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GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators (lesswrong.com)

2 years ago | mhb | lesswrong.com | newest

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Farmers ‘crippled’ by satellite failure as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt (smh.com.au)

2 years ago | mhb | smh.com.au | best

3

Upending a decades-long theory of reverse osmosis water desalination (yale.edu)

2 years ago | mhb | yale.edu | newest

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NYPD Can Now Shoot GPS Trackers at Your Car (jalopnik.com)

2 years ago | mhb | jalopnik.com | best

1

Science is a strong-link problem (experimental-history.com)

2 years ago | mhb | experimental-history.com | newest

2

You may like having a toilet stool (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Gene editing to prevent arrhythmias associated with cardiomyocyte cell therapy (cell.com)

2 years ago | mhb | cell.com | newest

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Miniature Armour (nigelcarren.co.uk)

2 years ago | mhb | nigelcarren.co.uk | newest

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The Beauty of Pulse Arc Welding (hermansilver.com)

2 years ago | mhb | hermansilver.com | best

1

Street Photography (greenspun.com)

2 years ago | mhb | greenspun.com | newest

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Photography by Phil Greenspun (greenspun.com)

2 years ago | mhb | greenspun.com | newest

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Outrage and Statistics into Policy (jefftk.com)

2 years ago | mhb | jefftk.com | newest

3

GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators (lesswrong.com)

2 years ago | mhb | lesswrong.com | newest

2

Sleight-of-hand magic trick only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs (cam.ac.uk)

2 years ago | mhb | cam.ac.uk | newest

2

Risks from GPT-4 Byproduct of Recursively Optimizing AIs (lesswrong.com)

2 years ago | mhb | lesswrong.com | newest

12

Is the government lying to us about gas stoves? (greenspun.com)

2 years ago | mhb | greenspun.com | newest

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A Visit to the Peeps Factory (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | frontpage

2

Polygonle (polygonle.com)

2 years ago | mhb | polygonle.com | newest

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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities (lesswrong.com)

2 years ago | mhb | lesswrong.com | newest

2

The Safe Uncertainty Fallacy (astralcodexten.substack.com)

2 years ago | mhb | substack.com | newest

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Operation Choke Point 2.0: The Federal Bank Regulators Come for Crypto [pdf] (cooperkirk.com)

2 years ago | mhb | cooperkirk.com | newest

2

Running After Antelope (thisamericanlife.org)

2 years ago | mhb | thisamericanlife.org | newest

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Designing a Modern Short Take-Off and Landing Aircraft (zenithair.com)

2 years ago | mhb | zenithair.com | newest

6

Cruise Cars Crash into San Francisco MUNI Bus and Tangle in Fallen Trolley Wires (forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton)

2 years ago | mhb | forbes.com | frontpage

3

An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms (jezzamon.com)

2 years ago | mhb | jezzamon.com | newest

2

The Bulletin of Primitve Technology (primitive.org)

2 years ago | mhb | primitive.org | newest

2

Running After Antelope (thisamericanlife.org)

2 years ago | mhb | thisamericanlife.org | newest

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Designing a Modern Short Take-Off and Landing Aircraft (zenithair.com)

2 years ago | mhb | zenithair.com | newest

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When You Cannot Trust the Experts (daviddfriedman.substack.com)

2 years ago | mhb | substack.com | newest

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Career Choices, a Short Story (geekpress.com)

2 years ago | mhb | geekpress.com | best

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The Paternoster: Europe’s Non-Stop Elevator (notesofnomads.com)

2 years ago | mhb | notesofnomads.com | newest

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Sea slug cut off its own head and regenerated its body (science.org)

2 years ago | mhb | science.org | newest

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Can the SVB crisis be solved in the longer run? (marginalrevolution.com)

2 years ago | mhb | marginalrevolution.com | newest

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Elizabeth Warren: Silicon Valley Bank Is Gone. We Know Who Is Responsible (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | frontpage

2

The Class Politics of Instagram Face (tabletmag.com)

2 years ago | mhb | tabletmag.com | newest

2

The Lab Leak Theory – A Bayesian Approach (daviddfriedman.substack.com)

2 years ago | mhb | substack.com | newest

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The Machinery of Freedom [pdf] (daviddfriedman.com)

2 years ago | mhb | daviddfriedman.com | frontpage

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Why the Science Is Clear That Masks Work (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | frontpage

2

Steve Mann – Inventor of HDR (wearcam.org)

2 years ago | mhb | wearcam.org | newest

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A compendium of things I didn't think AI should be able to do (oneusefulthing.substack.com)

2 years ago | mhb | substack.com | newest

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How the Media Got the Vinyl Chloride Risk All Wrong (reason.com)

2 years ago | mhb | reason.com | newest

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Charter boat captains don't have to share location with government, court rules (reason.com)

2 years ago | mhb | reason.com | frontpage

1

Marriage of the Minds (newyorker.com)

2 years ago | mhb | newyorker.com | newest

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Roko's Basilisk (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | mhb | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Could These Glasses Cure Your Motion Sickness? (smithsonianmag.com)

2 years ago | mhb | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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A 120-Year-Old Company Is Leaving Tesla in the Dust (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Revolutionary Stroke Treatment Will Save Millions of Lives (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | best

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How white can white paint get? (gizmodo.com)

2 years ago | mhb | gizmodo.com | best

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Trump, Musk and Kanye Are Twitter Poisoned – Jaron Lanier (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Revolutionary Stroke Treatment Will Save Millions of Lives. Eventually (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Keys to winning high intensity conflicts (austinvernon.site)

2 years ago | mhb | austinvernon.site | best

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The Trouble with the Rewrites to the James Bond Books (time.com)

2 years ago | mhb | time.com | newest

2

Eliezer Yudkowsky on AI Alignment (lesswrong.com)

2 years ago | mhb | lesswrong.com | newest

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Net Land Gained and Lost Due to Climate Change (daviddfriedman.substack.com)

2 years ago | mhb | substack.com | newest

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Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Bankless Podcast (lesswrong.com)

2 years ago | mhb | lesswrong.com | newest

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To Tap Federal Funds, Chip Makers Will Need to Provide Child Care (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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Casu Martzu Cheese – traditional Sardinian cheese that contains live maggots (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | mhb | wikipedia.org | newest

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American Indian Code Talkers (nationalww2museum.org)

2 years ago | mhb | nationalww2museum.org | newest

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[dupe] Newspapers have dropped the 'Dilbert' comic strip after creator's racist rant (npr.org)

2 years ago | mhb | npr.org | frontpage

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Building a Sea of Segments (llia.io)

2 years ago | mhb | llia.io | frontpage

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Permission-Slip Culture Is Hurting America (theatlantic.com)

2 years ago | mhb | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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Tesla applies for patent for ‘ultra-hard steel’ for Cybertruck (electrek.co)

2 years ago | mhb | electrek.co | newest

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My new Ubuntu-flavoured ThinkPad is computing heaven – Cory Doctorow (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | mhb | theguardian.com | newest

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My new Ubuntu-flavoured ThinkPad is computing heaven – Cory Doctorow

2 years ago | mhb | ycombinator.com | newest

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Hollywood Industry Guidelines for Movie Firearms [pdf] (csatf.org)

2 years ago | mhb | csatf.org | newest

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Humans Will Align with the AIs Long Before the AIs Align with Humans (marginalrevolution.com)

2 years ago | mhb | marginalrevolution.com | newest

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31 Common kitchen mistakes and how to avoid them (sun-sentinel.com)

2 years ago | mhb | sun-sentinel.com | newest

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A Lost Trove of Civil War Gold, an FBI Excavation, Some Angry Treasure Hunters (theatlantic.com)

2 years ago | mhb | theatlantic.com | newest

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The rewriting of Roald Dahl is an act of cultural vandalism (spectator.co.uk)

2 years ago | mhb | spectator.co.uk | best

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The Remarkable Connection Between Free Speech and Body Autonomy at Universities (davidzweig.substack.com)

2 years ago | mhb | substack.com | newest

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In a First, a Woman Issues a Thunderstorm Watch, Officials Say (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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New label law has unintended effect: Sesame in more foods (apnews.com)

2 years ago | mhb | apnews.com | newest

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Biden Wants to Restrict Work and Flexibility for Freelancers (reason.com)

2 years ago | mhb | reason.com | frontpage

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A robust negative relationship between minimum wages and employment [pdf] (uci.edu)

2 years ago | mhb | uci.edu | newest

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The Brachistochrone Problem (st-andrews.ac.uk)

2 years ago | mhb | st-andrews.ac.uk | newest

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Why Is Transit Construction in the US So Expensive? (transitcosts.com)

2 years ago | mhb | transitcosts.com | newest

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Burying the Lead: Understanding heavy metal exposure today and in ancient Rome (alltrades.substack.com)

2 years ago | mhb | substack.com | newest

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S.F. landlords, property owners sue to block voter-approved vacancy tax (sfchronicle.com)

2 years ago | mhb | sfchronicle.com | best

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Why Women Have Breasts (lloydianaspects.co.uk)

2 years ago | mhb | lloydianaspects.co.uk | frontpage

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Yellowstone Caldera Volcanic Power Generation: Volcanic Energy on National Scale (sciencedirect.com)

2 years ago | mhb | sciencedirect.com | best

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Several universities to experiment with micro nuclear power (apnews.com)

2 years ago | mhb | apnews.com | frontpage

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India and China developing medieval combat weapons for fighting in the Himalayas (twitter.com/logka11)

2 years ago | mhb | twitter.com | newest

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How to Tip More Effectively (marginalrevolution.com)

2 years ago | mhb | marginalrevolution.com | newest

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A year after outcry, IRS still doesn’t offer taxpayers alternative to ID.me (cyberscoop.com)

2 years ago | mhb | cyberscoop.com | best

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Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (compassionandchoices.org)

2 years ago | mhb | compassionandchoices.org | best

2

The Game Theory of the Balloons (marginalrevolution.com)

2 years ago | mhb | marginalrevolution.com | newest

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Facebook killed users batteries, worker claims in lawsuit (nypost.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nypost.com | newest

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Diary of a Snakebite Death (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mhb | youtube.com | newest

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Who should worry about H5N1? (theinsight.org)

2 years ago | mhb | theinsight.org | newest

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The Future of Strength Training (outsideonline.com)

2 years ago | mhb | outsideonline.com | newest

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The ingenious design of the aluminum beverage can (2015) [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mhb | youtube.com | best

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The Canine Model of AGI (marginalrevolution.com)

2 years ago | mhb | marginalrevolution.com | newest

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Australians Find Lost Radioactive Device in Six Days (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nytimes.com | newest

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A wearable cardiac ultrasound imager (nature.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nature.com | newest

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Simple nasal swab can provide early warning of emerging viruses (yale.edu)

2 years ago | mhb | yale.edu | newest

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Shooting a Commercial with High Speed Cameras and Fast Bolt Robots (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mhb | youtube.com | newest

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Pig organs partially revived in dead animals – researchers are stunned (nature.com)

2 years ago | mhb | nature.com | frontpage

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Intro to DNA and RNA Sequencing (jefftk.com)

2 years ago | mhb | jefftk.com | frontpage