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I agree with "just so pointless too - there are many good, better-illustrated, and better-explained human articles about the same circuit." However, to me, this reads more like hum…

I don't think it's slop -- the sources are books and it doesn't read like slop -- but the sources are more worth reading. It's more like an undergrad trying to fill word count, wit…

You seem to be a product of Russian propaganda. My advice would be to read a non-Ukranian history book. What Russia seems to be doing is trying to split Ukraine from the West. It's…

> Unless of course you are actually pro-Russian and you're just playing this game at a higher level in which case... congrats because that is effective I seriously thought this was…

That's missing the point. When a toddler does something inappropriate, "but he did it to me" is not an excuse. If both kids did something bad, I want both to apologize, and both to…

Yes, these are very much among Russia's pretexts. There were others as well. Most have at least some basis as well. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/422nd_Unmanned_System…

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MIT has, predictably, become a cesspool of corruption. People called this about two decades ago. The problems are: 1) Ambitious people are drawn to such institutions 2) There are $…

Curiosity: For most of the past five years, I've known ways to do better than Anthropic, OpenAI, and friends in many ways, at least on paper. I know I was right about many of them …

> But then, by standards of two decades ago, every website that cannot legally avoid showing a GDPR popup would be classified as malware. As it should be today. Alas, standards hav…

> However, I continue to be amazed that Perforce survived Git. I assume its ability to handle large binaries has been what saved it. Curiously enough, the git data model is ideal f…

> Everything I do is driven by a single goal: to make my startup successful so I can innovate in edtech. Nothing else. I believe you entirely. That comes across in everything you s…

I did try it. I'd provide feedback on how to make this better, but to be frank, I don't want to see this made better. I'd like open education made better. I'm on the other side her…

> All we want to do is innovate. That's very clear. That's why we have spyware, ad tech, WWII-era German chemical weapons, the East India Company, Oracle's business model, fintech,…

LLM-written clones of free software into proprietary seem to be a growing trend now. With manim, it's probably legal (I think MIT license?), but in general, it makes the world a wo…

This sort of thing makes me depressed. The videos are LLM slop. You're a confused student. You do a web search. You run into something like this. It looks high-quality and professi…

40+% of the slots at Harvard are taken up by ALDCs. That's most of the white students slots. If you're like, say, our vice president, you have quite literally a snowball's chance i…

I'm curious: Which state? However, there are *many* such effects. Whack one, and I can point to a dozen others. Until and unless they're systematically addressed, it's actually ver…

This is not an accident. If you talk to admissions officers, over drinks, they'll tell you that poor black students from marginalized US communities have abysmal performance at eli…

The open question is the meaning of "proper representation:" - One which maximizes Harvard's power network? - Most likely to succeed in the future? - Representative of the general …

Only partially true. In well-designed microelectronics, they will. The standard circuit involves a fuse, a fast Zener clamp, and sometimes a small resistor (e.g. 1 ohm) and/or capa…

When I used it a decade ago, virtually everything in mercurial was slightly better-designed, more user-friendly, and more polished. Much shorter learning curve.

Growing the economy is not "like a bicycle, the slower it goes the less stable it is." See everything from ancient Egypt to Soviet-style Communism. Periods of time in Ancient Rome …

Honestly, the world could use more stagnation. We've had a lot of change in the past hundred years, and we've reached a point where we can clothe, feed, and house everyone in the w…

Nope. https://abovethelaw.com/2016/02/criminally-yours-indicting-a... You can be arrested, indicted, and held in jail on pretrial, and there is literally no recourse. There are man…