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The Stack Overflow 1M Points Club (stackoverflow.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.com | newest

2

Looking for job perks? How about saving the world? (stackoverflow.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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Five Worlds of AI (scottaaronson.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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The worst coder in the world tries an AI sidekick (stackoverflow.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

3

Why Mathematicians Re-Prove What They Already Know (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

3

Pools of Genetic Diversity Affect a Species’ Fate (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

102

Deming Paradox: Operationally rigorous companies aren't nice places to work (commoncog.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | commoncog.com | best

2

The Number 15 Describes the Secret Limit of an Infinite Grid (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

2

How Alexandr Wang Turned an Army of Clickworkers into a $7.3B AI Unicorn (forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai)

a year ago | nsoonhui | forbes.com | newest

17

Will UT Austin and Texas A&M survive beyond this week? (scottaaronson.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | frontpage

1

She Tracks the DNA of Elusive Species That Hide in Harsh Places (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

2

AI safety: what should be done now? (scottaaronson.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

1

Are meetings making you less productive? (stackoverflow.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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Primitive Asgard cells show life on the brink of complexity (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

2

We managed to modernize the Booking.com app from the inside and out (medium.com/booking-product)

a year ago | nsoonhui | medium.com | frontpage

1

Is AI Leading to GarbAge? (indiatimes.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | indiatimes.com | newest

1

How to Handle Paranoid Thoughts (psyche.co)

a year ago | nsoonhui | psyche.co | newest

1

Perfectionism Can Become a Vicious Cycle in Families (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | theatlantic.com | newest

6

There Is No Truth in Business, Only Knowledge (commoncog.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | commoncog.com | newest

14

How randomness can improve algorithms (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

1

Working remotely (thomasbandt.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | thomasbandt.com | newest

1

Quips are what I’ve got (scottaaronson.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

204

If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason (scottaaronson.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | best

2

The Colorful Problem That Has Long Frustrated Mathematicians (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

1

Turing Test (astralcodexten.substack.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

23

The symmetry that makes solving math equations easy (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

1

2023 Abel Prize: pioneer of ‘smooth’ physics wins top maths award (nature.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | nature.com | newest

1

Wormhole Experiment Called into Question (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

1

Plagiarism flag and moderator tooling has launched to Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.com | newest

1

What our engineers learned building Stack Overflow (Ep. 547) (stackoverflow.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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What’s different about these layoffs (stackoverflow.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | frontpage

3

GPT-4’s successes, and GPT-4’s failures (garymarcus.substack.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

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Unpredictable abilities emerging from large AI models (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

4

Coloring by Numbers Reveals Arithmetic Patterns in Fractions (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

2

Black Holes Will Eventually Destroy All Quantum States, Researchers Argue (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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There’s a reason some of us find it easier to change than others (psyche.co)

a year ago | nsoonhui | psyche.co | newest

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How Many Exoplanets Can You Visit in Quanta’s New Math Game? (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

2

In Neural Networks, Unbreakable Locks Can Hide Invisible Doors (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

1

An Applied Mathematician with an Unexpected Toolbox (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

2

Can Our Brains Be Taken Over? (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

9

The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned? (nytimes.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | nytimes.com | newest

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Quantum Field Theory Pries Open Mathematical Puzzle (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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[flagged] Statement of Jewish scientists opposing the “judicial reform” in Israel (scottaaronson.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | best

2

To Teach Computers Math, Researchers Merge AI Approaches (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Serverless scales well, but most databases don’t (stackoverflow.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

2

Coding 102: Writing code other people can read (stackoverflow.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

2

Why China is losing the microchip war (vox.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | vox.com | newest

2

If not vegan, then what? (aeon.co)

a year ago | nsoonhui | aeon.co | newest

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A cell cultured startup working in exotic meats (2022) (foodnavigator.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | foodnavigator.com | frontpage

0

Mostly Skeptical Thoughts on the Chatbot Propaganda Apocalypse (astralcodexten.substack.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

1

Mathematicians Eliminate Long-Standing Threat to Knot Conjecture (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

1

Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses (cochranelibrary.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | cochranelibrary.com | newest

1

Ask HN: Receiving Offers for My Companies

a year ago | nsoonhui | ycombinator.com | newest

2

Interview with a Top Swiss Scientist (goodscience.substack.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

4

You Don't Want a Purely Biological, Apolitical Taxonomy of Mental Disorders (astralcodexten.substack.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

2

What Good, Cash-Strapped Hiring Looks Like (commoncog.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | commoncog.com | newest

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Quantum Physicists ‘Flipped Time’ (and How They Didn’t) (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT (futurism.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | futurism.com | newest

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At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable (2022) (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

1

The Computer Scientist Who Finds Life Lessons in Games (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Why Carl Sagan Is Truly Irreplaceable (2014) (smithsonianmag.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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The Basic Algebra Behind Secret Codes and Space Communication (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Scientists, please don’t let your chatbots grow up to be co-authors (garymarcus.substack.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

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Is Sam Altman unloading OpenAI at just the right time? (garymarcus.substack.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | frontpage

1

Minimizing the downsides of dynamic programming languages (stackoverflow.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

3

Standard Model of Cosmology Survives a Telescope’s Surprising Finds (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

2

The Mystery of the Healthy Coral Reef (nautil.us)

a year ago | nsoonhui | nautil.us | newest

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Mathematicians roll dice and get rock-paper-scissors (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

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The myth of the myth of the 10x programmer (2020) (payne.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | payne.org | best

1

Want to solve climate change? This California farm kingdom holds the key (latimes.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | latimes.com | newest

2

Born That Way (aeon.co)

a year ago | nsoonhui | aeon.co | newest

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There’s no planet B (aeon.co)

a year ago | nsoonhui | aeon.co | best

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A Man Behind Mastodon Built It for This Moment (2022) (wired.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | wired.com | newest

2

Probability and Number Theory Collide – In a Moment (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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It Never Existed (aeon.co)

a year ago | nsoonhui | aeon.co | newest

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Mathematical theorem used to crack US Government encryption algorithm (2022) (phys.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | phys.org | newest

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Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think (commoncog.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | commoncog.com | newest

1

Beyond Git: The other version control systems developers use (stackoverflow.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley (wired.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | wired.com | frontpage

2

New Algorithm Closes Quantum Supremacy Window (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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My mom left behind some number code (puzzling.stackexchange.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackexchange.com | best

2

Billionaire Jack Ma to Cede Control of China’s Ant Group (aljazeera.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | aljazeera.com | newest

2

Civil 3D fails you, my dear engineers (mes100.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | mes100.com | newest

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Ancient Asteroids, Gamma Rays Made Building Blocks of Life (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

3

Don’t Just Set Goals. Build Systems (medium.com/swlh)

a year ago | nsoonhui | medium.com | frontpage

2

Cristiano Ronaldo joins Saudi Arabian side Al Nassr until 2025 (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | nsoonhui | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Ex-Pope failing health presents difficult decisions for Vatican (bbc.com)

a year ago | nsoonhui | bbc.com | newest

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The Great Resignation is here. What does that mean for developers? (stackoverflow.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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Why the number input is the worst input (stackoverflow.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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Short letter to my 11-year-old self (scottaaronson.blog)

a year ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

2

Finding the First Americans (aeon.co)

a year ago | nsoonhui | aeon.co | newest

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The Shape of a Technological Window (commoncog.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | commoncog.com | newest

2

Use Git Tactically (stackoverflow.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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Fukuyama’s Victory (quillette.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quillette.com | newest

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The latest survey results from Stack Overflow Knows (stackoverflow.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica (stephenwolfram.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stephenwolfram.com | newest

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How Do We Protect Ourselves from Billion-Dollar Boy-Men? (quillette.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quillette.com | frontpage

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Just laid off? Nervous about possible layoffs? Here’s what to do (stackoverflow.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest