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Harvard Faculty End Mandatory DEI Statements in Hiring (nationalreview.com)

6 months ago | nsoonhui | nationalreview.com | frontpage

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Ruliology of the "Forgotten" Code 10 (stephenwolfram.com)

6 months ago | nsoonhui | stephenwolfram.com | newest

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Stack Overflow Knows code assistant pulse survey results (stackoverflow.blog)

6 months ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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My "museums designed by blankfaces" series: London Science Museum (scottaaronson.blog)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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Quantum Dialectics (aeon.co)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | aeon.co | newest

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Disappointment (ams.org)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | ams.org | best

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Keep a Developer's Journal (stackoverflow.blog)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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When AI Meets Its Match (2023) (theatlantic.com)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | theatlantic.com | newest

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Openness on OpenAI (scottaaronson.blog)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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Russia, China 'manipulating UK opinion by promoting pro-Palestinian influencers' (telegraph.co.uk)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | telegraph.co.uk | newest

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AI Turned a Ukrainian YouTuber into a Russian (bbc.com)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | bbc.com | frontpage

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Harvard Was Unresponsive to Antisemitism, House Committee Finds (wsj.com)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | wsj.com | frontpage

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OverflowAI (stackoverflow.co)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.co | newest

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Why is science slowing down? (vox.com)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | vox.com | newest

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Book Review: The Origins of Woke (astralcodexten.com)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | astralcodexten.com | newest

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[flagged] No One Knows What Universities Are For (theatlantic.com)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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Scientific progress is slowing down. But why? (youtube.com)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | youtube.com | newest

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New AI Tools Predict How Life's Building Blocks Assemble (quantamagazine.org)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

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Our Partnership with OpenAI (meta.stackexchange.com)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | stackexchange.com | newest

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A View from an Ex-String Theorist (reddit.com)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | reddit.com | frontpage

3

What 'Intifada Revolution' Looks Like (theatlantic.com)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | theatlantic.com | newest

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MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions (whyevolutionistrue.com)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | whyevolutionistrue.com | best

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Stop Keeping Score (theatlantic.com)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | theatlantic.com | newest

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Scientists Find a Fast Way to Describe Quantum Systems (quantamagazine.org)

7 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

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We can't trust the fox to guard the henhouse, especially when it comes to AI (garymarcus.substack.com)

8 months ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

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Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out (quantamagazine.org)

8 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

2

Go to a State School (natesilver.net)

8 months ago | nsoonhui | natesilver.net | newest

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Supporting the most-used database engine through 2050 (stackoverflow.blog)

8 months ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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What Would Thucydides Say? (aeon.co)

8 months ago | nsoonhui | aeon.co | newest

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What explains the outsized success of autistic applicants to college (penelopetrunk.substack.com)

8 months ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | frontpage

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Mathematicians marvel at 'crazy' cuts through four dimensions (quantamagazine.org)

8 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

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House Approves Long-Stalled Ukraine Aid over Angry GOP Objections (wsj.com)

8 months ago | nsoonhui | wsj.com | newest

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How do machines ‘grok’ data? (quantamagazine.org)

8 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

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Conscientious Unbelievers (aeon.co)

8 months ago | nsoonhui | aeon.co | frontpage

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Can the laws of physics exist without mathematical realism? (philosophy.stackexchange.com)

8 months ago | nsoonhui | stackexchange.com | newest

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When will the eclipse happen? A multimillennium tale of computation (stephenwolfram.com)

9 months ago | nsoonhui | stephenwolfram.com | best

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The Reddits (paulgraham.com)

9 months ago | nsoonhui | paulgraham.com | newest

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Open Letter to Anti-Zionists on Twitter (scottaaronson.blog)

9 months ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gaza (nytimes.com)

9 months ago | nsoonhui | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Malaysian convenience store owners charged over 'Allah' socks (apnews.com)

9 months ago | nsoonhui | apnews.com | newest

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No Data Correlates School Success to Life Success. Literally. None (penelopetrunk.com)

9 months ago | nsoonhui | penelopetrunk.com | newest

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What Is Quantum Teleportation? (quantamagazine.org)

9 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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On Being Faceless (scottaaronson.blog)

9 months ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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How to Enjoy Your Problems (psyche.co)

9 months ago | nsoonhui | psyche.co | newest

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Can two computers have the same default name? (superuser.com)

9 months ago | nsoonhui | superuser.com | newest

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What Is the Nature of Time? (quantamagazine.org)

9 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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[flagged] I Was a Heretic at the New York Times (theatlantic.com)

9 months ago | nsoonhui | theatlantic.com | best

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'Entropy Bagels' and Other Complex Structures Emerge from Simple Rules (quantamagazine.org)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better (quantamagazine.org)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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The Takeover (tabletmag.com)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | tabletmag.com | newest

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A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal Stability. Now the Idea May Be Falling Apart (quantamagazine.org)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Even LLMs need education–quality data makes LLMs overperform (stackoverflow.blog)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | frontpage

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Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people (businessinsider.com)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | businessinsider.com | newest

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Google Analytics is being overwhelmed by referral spam from Poland (support.google.com)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | google.com | newest

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Unfolding the Mysteries of Polygonal Billiards (quantamagazine.org)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Don't Read History for Lessons (commoncog.com)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | commoncog.com | newest

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The Problem of Human Specialness in the Age of AI (scottaaronson.blog)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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Bill Ackman's fight against Harvard (nymag.com)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | nymag.com | newest

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Maze proof establishes a 'backbone' for statistical mechanics (quantamagazine.org)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

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Mount Everest: Climbers will need to bring poo back to base camp (bbc.com)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | bbc.com | newest

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Nordic architects' open letter reignites scorching Autodesk criticism (archinect.com)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | archinect.com | newest

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How to Be Successful (samaltman.com)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | samaltman.com | newest

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Palestine Hijacked the U.S. Civil Rights Movement (tabletmag.com)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | tabletmag.com | newest

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The Mystery of Chernobyl's Post-Invasion Radiation Spikes (2023) (wired.com)

10 months ago | nsoonhui | wired.com | frontpage

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Does fermion doubling make the universe not a computer? (scottaaronson.blog)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | frontpage

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Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations (nature.com)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | nature.com | newest

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Neighborhoods for starting a life in the galaxy (quantamagazine.org)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

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Onoda: A man who hid in the jungle for 30 years (bbc.com)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | bbc.com | newest

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Skulls reveal scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital (2018) (science.org)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | science.org | best

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Growing Oct. 7 'truther' groups say Hamas massacre was a false flag (washingtonpost.com)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | washingtonpost.com | newest

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New faculty-led organization at Harvard will defend academic freedom (bostonglobe.com)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | bostonglobe.com | newest

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Israel Unearths More of a Subterranean Fortress Under Gaza (nytimes.com)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | nytimes.com | newest

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Universities Use DEI Statements to Enforce Groupthink (reason.com)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | reason.com | newest

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica (stephenwolfram.com)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | stephenwolfram.com | newest

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Deep Beneath Earth's Surface, Clues to Life's Origins (quantamagazine.org)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Mathematicians Identify the Best Versions of Iconic Shapes (quantamagazine.org)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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The 'Accidental Activist' Who Changed the Face of Mathematics (quantamagazine.org)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Harvard president resigns amid claims of plagiarism and antisemitism backlash (theguardian.com)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | theguardian.com | newest

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Israel's 'Black Sabbath': Murder, Sexual Violence and Torture on Oct. 7 (wsj.com)

11 months ago | nsoonhui | wsj.com | newest

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US investors see value in Israeli tech firms despite war (reuters.com)

12 months ago | nsoonhui | reuters.com | newest

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The Year in Physics (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Sorry, but FunSearch probably isn't a milestone in scientific discovery (garymarcus.substack.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

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Pope says Roman Catholic priests can bless same-sex couples (bbc.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | bbc.com | newest

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Baby found alive in tree after Tennessee tornado (bbc.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | bbc.com | newest

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Microsoft Word now scolds you if you use words that aren't inclusive (twitter.com/elonmusk)

a year ago | nsoonhui | twitter.com | newest

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The Moral Decline of Elite Universities (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | theatlantic.com | newest

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On being wrong about AI (scottaaronson.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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Son of Bride of Bay Area House Party (astralcodexten.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | astralcodexten.com | newest

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Three types of AI-assisted programmers (stackoverflow.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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Harvard President Gay Under Fire over Plagiarism Allegations (thecrimson.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | thecrimson.com | newest

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Observer Theory (stephenwolfram.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stephenwolfram.com | newest

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Simulating the three-dimensional morphology of kilonovae (phys.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | phys.org | newest

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OpenAI's Altman says he was wrong to call antisemitism overblown (timesofisrael.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | timesofisrael.com | newest

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Staggering toward quantum fault-tolerance (scottaaronson.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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Stern-Gerlach experiment used to probe the clash of quantum theory and gravity (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

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Steps to a Better Programmer (mes100.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | mes100.com | newest

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Henry Kissinger, secretary of state to Richard Nixon, dies at 100 (theguardian.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | theguardian.com | newest

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Marvel Studios's Origin Story (commoncog.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | commoncog.com | newest

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OpenAI's Chief Scientist Made a Tragic Miscalculation (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | theatlantic.com | newest

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Pierre de Fermat's Link to a High School Student's Prime Math Proof (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | frontpage