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> Figure 2. ... In the last decade, the deceleration in pharmaceutical productivity seems to have ameliorated ... Uh, what? It's a semi-log scale and the data has been statisticall…

Government crypto governance seems to be written by people who think aerospace engineering is the epitome of diligence. My friends in Christ, a aerodynamic object need only contend…

Dear American government regulators: nationwide autonomous driving is proving to be easier than delivering fiber to every home. Why do you hate Americans?

I first ran across the Dunning-Kruger effect in my own data: a survey of my classmates which asked them 34 questions about their study habits, and a question in the middle asked th…

... not overtly, intentionally evil. FTFY

I haven't finished reading, but I should note for the group that the author doesn't represent the Anthropic situation accurately. Emil Michael, the undersecretary of war/defense fo…

Patient: "I want high quality care with good follow up." Doctor jots down key bits on a paper chart. Patient: "I want my records to go with me." Doctor takes notes on computer. Pat…

The weird edge cases that live around connectors never cease to amaze. I recall one, I think it was also HDMI (maybe displayport or VGA), that showed there's a very low resolution …

Ok, so what has happened historically when we hold a tech stack constant for 10 years? Versioning proceeds, but everyone consolidates on a thing? Python? => Data science. Sure, pyt…

Interestingly, Id was led by John Carmack, who was also a big fan of VR. And Microsoft killed the AR/VR/MR teams a year ago. So, I'm guessing internally there were some leadership …

> if software engineering unionization ever starts to take hold So, you know, do that.

Amazing. This reads like someone left Hunter S. Thompson alone with a roll of Reynolds Wrap.

I can see where Goodhart's Law applies to psychology and economics, pretty much any man-made domain without IDLH (immediate-danger-to-life-and-health) outcomes. But I think it's go…

Artists and actors could point the LLMs at programmers by developing their own apps, doing their own engineering. Do they? Who's doing it already? Tilly Norwood's creator seems lik…

What prompt would you use to generate this? I don't see it.

Swiss as racists. Amazing. People know Americans harbor racist feelings because they are surrounded by people of many races. But it's trivial to demonstrate racism among any popula…

Women want their own income stream because of the innumerable ways men get into trouble. If her man gets into trouble, she wants a plan B, for her and her children. I don't think a…

I have already forwarded this to a number of senior pathologists and industry leaders. People who are in charge of either developing these things or validating them for clinical us…

Google apps are the most downloaded apps in the Apple App Store already. This reminds me of the original Apple Maps, which was just a front end for Google Maps.

How did they decide what the inside of the strawberry looks like? Because that seems very incorrect.

> I think the regime is very weak. The "enemy of my enemy" concept suggests that even if the people hate their government, their immediate pain is being caused by the United States…

I love the mix of MacBook Pro and Asus-style renders. Nothing says care and attention to detail like mixing renders in the same advert.

It was not only the FDA that stopped snake oil. A lot of it was also stopped by state licensure and medical school accreditation (see the Flexner Report), all of which happened in …