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Oh boy, this reminded me of The Boy Who Sailed Around the World Alone by Robin Lee Graham, which I randomly found and read in my school's library when I was 12 or 13. Still remembe…

Similar to how Cypher puts it: I know this is “just” next token inference, matrix mult and just software, ie there’s no “intelligence” there BUT, looking at this convo … damn! The …

I love this koan and what makes it even better is that is based on a true event: Minsky’s real answer was “It has them, you just k ow what they are yet”

From the ruling ( https://www.historians.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/291-Me... ): >The second stage of the grant termination process began on March 12, 2025, when Justin Fox and…

Fascinating game, looks trivial, almost a child’s game. Yet, play a few rounds against the computer here and be humbled: https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/Games/chomp.html First playe…

Pretty cool but handling large numbers is pretty limited: chokes on 171! Or 5^5^5.

I read this earlier today and was thinking: how many such mathematically gifted individuals exist I. The world at one time? Assuming there are probably 20-30 Tao-caliber people in …

Everyone’s entitled to their opinions and more than a few people have written similar ideas. However, I find this chain of thought both offensive to what being a slave meant and ig…

This was great as it went farther than Rayleigh scattering. On this topic you have to watch this fantastic undergrad physics lecture demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…

Related: Sorry, but as an AT fan I couldn't resist: https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/The_Enchiridion_(book)

They cannot receive from federally funded Medicaid but some states have programs or state-funded Medicaid programs that allow non-citizens to benefit. CA and NY do for some categor…

Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci's book Twitter and Teargas explains why, for protest movements to be successful they should have charismatic leaders and decentralized mass protest movem…

Related: Rumi’s Mesnevî also opens with “bishnav”, “listen” in Persian.

Note that English audiobooks are typically around 150-170 wpm and fast talkers speak around 200 wpm.

Since I’m rushing to load it as fast as possible the packing is not as good as hers so some dishes are left out. Overall this leads to more loads.

A signal cannot be both time and frequency band limited. Many years ago I was amazed when I read that this fact I learned in my undergraduate is equivalent to the Uncertainty Princ…

If you’ve hit the 500 tabs for a tab group limit on iPhone and opened another group you’re a real tab boarder like me! Why do I do it? To see all my tabs visually and quickly go ba…