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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | frontpage

3

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

114

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

4

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

2

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

1

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | psyche.co | newest

1

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

2

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

1

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

2

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

9

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | nytimes.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | best

2

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

1

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

2

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

2

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | vox.com | newest

2

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | aeon.co | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | foodnavigator.com | frontpage

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

1

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | cochranelibrary.com | newest

1

Ask HN: Receiving Offers for My Companies

2 years ago | nsoonhui | ycombinator.com | newest

2

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

4

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

2

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | commoncog.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | futurism.com | newest

2

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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

2 years 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)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | frontpage

1

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

3

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

2

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | nautil.us | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | payne.org | best

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | latimes.com | newest

2

Born That Way (aeon.co)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | aeon.co | newest

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There’s no planet B (aeon.co)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | aeon.co | best

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | wired.com | newest

2

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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It Never Existed (aeon.co)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | aeon.co | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | phys.org | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | commoncog.com | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | wired.com | frontpage

2

New Algorithm Closes Quantum Supremacy Window (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackexchange.com | best

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | aljazeera.com | newest

2

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | mes100.com | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

3

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | medium.com | frontpage

2

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | bbc.co.uk | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | bbc.com | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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Finding the First Americans (aeon.co)

2 years 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

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | substack.com | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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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

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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

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | psyche.co | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | superuser.com | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | medium.com | newest

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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

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | newyorker.com | best

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | stackexchange.com | newest

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Dismantling Quantum Hype with Tim Nguyen (scottaaronson.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | lesswrong.com | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | commoncog.com | newest

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Making Sense of Big Ocean Data (nautil.us)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | nautil.us | newest

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Reform AI Alignment (scottaaronson.blog)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | blogspot.com | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | ft.com | newest

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How to Think About Relativity (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | blogspot.com | best

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | wordpress.com | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | quantamagazine.org | best

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | wordpress.com | newest

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

2 years ago | nsoonhui | nautil.us | best