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There are a lot of different twitter accounts that are fun to follow. @Lvision_trading on twitter is doing particularly great work counting ships. Danny Citrinowicz analysis on Ira…

That book is just so cool.

The recent major geopolitical shifts and their intersection with energy commodity markets. The book Virtual Barrels by Ilia Bouchouev. The details and mechanics of financial option…

Are people here following the situation in the Strait of Hormuz? I've been obsessed for the last few months but haven't seen too much posting here about it. Even if you don't care …

I don't disagree with everything you are saying. But you seem to be assuming that contributing to technology is a zero sum game when it concretely grows the wealth of the world. > …

> Wouldn't it be simplest to just legalize the people who are here I recently went down this rabbit hole a bit thinking this was the obvious solution and was surprised to learn tha…

Out of curiosity why has the LLM math solving community been focused on the Erdos problems over other open problems? Are they of a certain nature where we would expect LLMs to be e…

Pain relief is a major reason to go to a hospital. There is no safe way to get pain relief in a home birth. It is obviously a very personal choice. > if anything goes even a tiny b…

The two biggest benefits are reduction of iatrogenic harm and comfort for the mother delivering. Midwives are medical professionals who have the equipment and expertise to interven…

Home birth is absolutely a rational choice in many cases. The author had a very strong reason to require hospital birth but in scenarios with lower risk it is safer in some respect…

Me neither. David Deutsch had some interesting thoughts on why finitists are wrong in TBOI but I never fully understood it.

> He wanted to show that every efficient local algorithm can be turned into a Lebesgue-measurable way of coloring an infinite graph To me this is quite surprising. Distributed syst…

It is an expensive research project. Actually doing this starting from no experience or tools you're probably looking at 6 months - 1 year and 10k. A little support from trained bi…

It's a bad idea for a bunch of reasons but you could always do it yourself: https://nanoporetech.com/products/sequence/minion

No major changes professionally other than that I have become a bit more careful about keeping my geopolitical opinions to myself. Also having some coworkers living in the Middle E…

I have no idea the current status but five years ago I knew an acquaintance who was building this: https://sourcecred.io which I think is pretty close to what you're talking about.…

TAN ETF is basically this if you think about it

Blockchain people consider Ligero as a modern construction worth using. At least last I checked 6 months ago. This work isn't reinventing the wheel and appears to be targeting a ni…

The surprising part of STARKS and SNARKS comes down to the nature of polynomials. It's surprisingly easy to tell two polynomials apart with a small number of random checks (Schwart…

This is my setup too. It's nice to keep the Claude tasks on a remote machine with no important state so there's no chance of privacy leaks or in case you accidentally allow them to…

You're probably leaving speed on the table but these tools are not hard to pick up in the future if you have good engineering fundamentals. If your career is going well and you hav…

Basically everything is just faster and I can focus either on solving things that matter more or I can work less. I've never been a great developer but now it feels like I have the…