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Noam Chomsky and GPT-3 (garymarcus.substack.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

1

Google’s Sycamore chip: no wormholes, no superfast classical simulation either (scottaaronson.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

1

The Math Behind Wordle Guesses (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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WTF Is T_paamayim_nekudotayim (2013) (phil.tech)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | phil.tech | best

1

What happens if we make the Mona Lisa more symmetrical? (psyche.co)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | psyche.co | newest

1

My AI Safety Lecture for UT Effective Altruism (scottaaronson.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

1

A sense of humour – even a dark one – is a moral virtue (psyche.co)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | psyche.co | newest

4

The Brain Uses Calculus to Control Fast Movements (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

1

INetCache/IE folder consumes a lot of disk space? (superuser.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | superuser.com | newest

3

The Most Horrific Ways to Die According to Scientists (medium.com/lessons-from-history)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | medium.com | newest

1

Nature, Nurture, Environment and Culture (samstack.io)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | samstack.io | newest

2

Nuclear Waste: What Do We Do with It? (backreaction.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | blogspot.com | newest

31

Cheap Land Colorado: What going off the grid really looks like (newyorker.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | newyorker.com | best

1

How do you explain technical subjects in a non condescending way to senior? (workplace.stackexchange.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackexchange.com | newest

2

Dismantling Quantum Hype with Tim Nguyen (scottaaronson.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

2

A Mathematician Dancing Between Algebra and Geometry (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

1

AI will change the world, but won’t do so by playing “3-dimensional chess” (lesswrong.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | lesswrong.com | newest

2

The Disaffected PhD Skunkworks: A Story About Process Improvement (commoncog.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | commoncog.com | newest

3

Making Sense of Big Ocean Data (nautil.us)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | nautil.us | newest

1

Reform AI Alignment (scottaaronson.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

1

Winners of the Scott Aaronson Grant for Advanced Precollege Stem Education (scottaaronson.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

2

Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: What's the Link? (backreaction.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | blogspot.com | newest

58

Computer proof ‘blows up’ centuries-old fluid equations (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

2

Chinese city tiptoes away from zero-Covid (ft.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | ft.com | newest

2

How to Think About Relativity (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

196

Why are male testosterone levels falling? (backreaction.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | blogspot.com | best

1

The Quantum Computer – A Miracle or Mirage (gilkalai.wordpress.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | wordpress.com | newest

18

NeuRRAM – New chip for running large-scale AI algorithms on smaller devices (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

1

The Google Supremacy Experiment: Data, Information, Discussions (gilkalai.wordpress.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | wordpress.com | newest

35

How I learned to stop worrying and love uncertainty (nautil.us)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | nautil.us | best

1

The Caesar problem remains open (scottaaronson.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

1

Going from engineer to entrepreneur takes more than just good code (stackoverflow.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

155

Quantum winter is coming (backreaction.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | blogspot.com | best

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Multiple assertions are fine in a unit test (stackoverflow.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | best

4

What is the difference between 'Git pull' and 'Git fetch'? (stackoverflow.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.com | newest

2

Ocean Bacteria Reveal an Unexpected Multicellular Form (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

2

A Mathematician Who Fled to Freedom but Still Stares Down Doubts (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

15

The PDSA loop – Plan-Do-Study-Act (commoncog.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | commoncog.com | best

1

Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB? (2017) (nemil.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | nemil.com | newest

9

Apple: Chinese workers flee Covid lockdown at iPhone factory (bbc.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | bbc.com | frontpage

1

Observation of non-Abelian exchange statistics on a superconducting processor (arxiv.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | arxiv.org | newest

2

On Bryan Caplan and his new book (scottaaronson.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

2

What Do Longtermists Want? (backreaction.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | blogspot.com | newest

10

Genes can leap from snakes to frogs in Madagascar (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

1

The SaaSy Guide to Hiring (staysaasy.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | staysaasy.com | newest

3

I was outsourced. Can former co-worker keep requesting passwords? (stackexchange.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackexchange.com | newest

2

CEO update: Breaking down barriers to unlock innovation (stackoverflow.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

1

New Entanglement Results Hint at Better Quantum Codes (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

9

How to become a good theoretical physicist (goodtheorist.science)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | goodtheorist.science | frontpage

1

What If the Effect Comes Before the Cause? (backreaction.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | blogspot.com | newest

2

Jews, the Smartest Stupid People on Earth (tabletmag.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | tabletmag.com | newest

1

Is the Age of Fusion Upon Us? (tabletmag.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | tabletmag.com | newest

1

A Dinosaur Is a Story (aeon.co)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | aeon.co | newest

1

Nature Play Boosts the Immune System (1000hoursoutside.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | 1000hoursoutside.com | newest

112

Focus is saying no to good ideas (commoncog.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | commoncog.com | best

3

Quake GPL Source Release (2012) (github.com/id-software)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | github.com | frontpage

2

Why are we getting fatter? (backreaction.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | blogspot.com | newest

1

The Antidepressant Wars (bostonreview.net)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | bostonreview.net | newest

1

Lab-Grown Human Cells Form Working Circuits in Rat Brains (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

1

Remembrance of telephony past: what Proust made of the phone (psyche.co)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | psyche.co | newest

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An Unholy Alliance (aeon.co)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | aeon.co | newest

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How to earn a million reputation on Stack Overflow: be of service to others (stackoverflow.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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Covid 10/6/22: Overreactions Aplenty (thezvi.substack.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

3

Cold Fusion is Back (there's just one problem) (backreaction.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | blogspot.com | newest

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‘Monumental’ Math Proof Solves Triple Bubble Problem and More (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

3

China Seeks a Quantum Leap in Computing (wsj.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | wsj.com | newest

3

How Trustworthy Are Supplements? (astralcodexten.substack.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

2

Frame: Run Any Software in a Browser (fra.me)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | fra.me | newest

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Two heads are better than one: What second brains say about how developers work (stackoverflow.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

2

What is it that makes Enum.HasFlag so slow? (stackoverflow.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.com | newest

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Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius (theatlantic.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | theatlantic.com | frontpage

4

From Nostradamus to Fukuyama (astralcodexten.substack.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | frontpage

2

Open Letter to the WHOSTP and Subcommittee on Open Science (ostp-letter.github.io)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | github.io | frontpage

2

Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhura Overcame Astronomical Odds (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

4

Can we make flying “Green”? (backreaction.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | blogspot.com | frontpage

1

What We Know About Monkeypox (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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A step-by-step guide to our solar system’s demise (nautil.us)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | nautil.us | best

1

Lucky Guy (nybooks.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | nybooks.com | newest

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For developers, flow state starts with your finger tips (stackoverflow.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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Stack Overflow trends: Weekday vs. weekend site activity (stackoverflow.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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A short story of my life and mathematics: Jim Simons (youtube.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | youtube.com | newest

2

Optimise for Usefulness (commoncog.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | commoncog.com | newest

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Why do SaaS companies need sales? (a16z.com)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | a16z.com | best

2

What Is “Nothing”?

2 years ago | nsoonhui | blogspot.com | newest

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Why Is the Central Valley So Bad?

2 years ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | frontpage

1

The New Math of Wrinkling

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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The origin of the strong form of superconductivity

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

2

Enlightenment 2.0 a Review of “Rationality,” by Steven Pinker

2 years ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

5

The search for Covid-19’s origins continues to be hindered by fear

2 years ago | nsoonhui | telegraph.co.uk | frontpage

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The New Meta-Materials for Superlenses and Invisibility Cloaks

2 years ago | nsoonhui | blogspot.com | newest

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Partner’s infidelity needn’t be a relationship catastrophe

2 years ago | nsoonhui | psyche.co | newest

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Academia should embrace ‘Grandma’s metaphysics’

2 years ago | nsoonhui | psyche.co | newest

2

I Won My Three Year AI Progress Bet in Three Months

2 years ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

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Automated Testing for League of Legends (2016)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | riotgames.com | newest

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China had a plan to dominate tech. It's all gone wrong

2 years ago | nsoonhui | businessinsider.com | newest

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The Future of AutoCAD (2018)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | keanw.com | newest

3

The Multiverse: Science, Religion, or Pseudoscience?

2 years ago | nsoonhui | blogspot.com | frontpage

2

Families in the World by Income per Month

2 years ago | nsoonhui | gapminder.org | newest

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A Black Hole’s Orbiting Ring of Light Could Encrypt Its Inner Secrets

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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What I’ve learned from having Covid

2 years ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | frontpage