> Like biographies use their subject as a prism for the world around them, I… more
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> But after years of building on Web streams — implementing them in both… more
> [...] suppose a literal “country of geniuses” were to materialize somewhere in the world in ~2027. Imagine, say, 50 million people, all of whom are much more capable than any Nobel Prize winner, statesman, or technologist. more
> The U.S. is often maligned as being customer-hostile compared to other… more
> What every South Korean man agrees on is that serving in the military is a… more
> Every time a new 3D printer startup graced the front page of Hacker News,… more
> The story of Swiss watchmaking began in Geneva in the 1540s. At the behest of… more
> Parody is protected by “fair use” copyright doctrine when it’s used for the… more
> So what's an old guy yelling at Claudes going to do? He's going to write his… more
> The clearest tragedy during the early desegregation process was the… more
Oliver Sacks was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.archive
> “I have some hard ‘confessing’ to do—if not in public, at least to… more
> We introduce SCONE-bench—the first benchmark that evaluates agents’ ability… more
> Among the age-related-hearing-loss set, getting into the Fortell beta test… more
> For Thomas and Turner, a mature writing style is defined by making a… more
> [R]efrigerators are not only appliances: they are also a key component in the… more
> A recent study from Harvard University caught my attention and provides… more
> While we can’t say that vaping carries zero risk, the evidence clearly… more
That's quite the headline. Is it justified? From the article: more
> Have you ever asked an AI model what’s on its mind? Or to explain how it came… more
> What the Brightline is best known for is not that it reflects the gleam of… more
Looks like Patrick McKenzie got a chance to give a talk to people at the Bank… more
> As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum… more
This is a crazy fever-dream of a post about alpha software and I recommend… more
> Talking to CaBot was both empowering and unnerving. I felt as though I could… more
> A man named Sean, who works as a military contractor—one of several Green… more
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> Bowditch: [...] A spy there under our very roof was our babysitter, Klaus… more
The comments are worth reading. One of the authors explains the resistance they… more
> Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for… more
Here's a rather verbose series of blog posts that's intended to introduce… more
In Bret Devereaux's Fourth of July post, he starts with a bit of history just… more
> PALMER: Yeah, so there's two things that protect Florence. One of them, the… more