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Coding being the act of encoding/decoding information from one representation to another. The system itself is called a Code and these are designed to have specific properties like…

Situations like this are instances of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble... In this case, corporate management holding the purse strings but their wor…

Apparently they did this in Iceland and it's been fine? https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/31/iceland-approved...

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Rodney Brook's keynote at Stanford HAI earlier this month. Some interesting points right at the beginning relevant to recent on-stage demos by companies including like Nvidia and T…

This arstechnica article is pretty good, but in my opinion the best article covering this study was published by NPR http://npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/16/g-s1-60...…

Well there are now many instances of enforced disappearances.[1] To what the administration likes to call jails in Ecuador, except for the fact jails and prisons are part of legiti…

Ok sure but also the number of CT scans has been increasing exponentially (3 million CTs in 1980, 20 million in 1995, 60 million 2005[0] to 93 million in 2023[1]) so you'd need to …

There have been and continue to be technological improvements that reduce the dosage required. There is not a single dosage for all CTs. The dose for a head CT is an order of magni…

Love that xkcd chart. One thing it doesn't show is that different particle species of radiation have different effects on our biology at different "potencies". Gamma rays released …

dupe, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43688395

"CT scanning became widespread in the 1980's. Cancer incidence is flat to slightly decreased since then. I'm not sure their risk model matches reality. Many of these models are bas…

It's like the inverse of Gil Scott Heron's "The revolution will not be televised" "The Nuclear Holocaust Will Be Televised" There's even a trailer from the Reagan era: https://www.…

The image maintainer wrote a short blog post in 2021 putting forth the rationale and good faith intentions of the project as a resource for security research. https://sick.codes/is…

I'm surprised that ~$10 million dollars of GPUs, @ $40k per H100 and excluding operational costs like the energy bill, only rents for $455k per month. Sounds like a really tough bu…

Wow, it's amazing to me how much anki eventually caught on with medical students. Back in 2008 I introduced my med school classmates to Anki via a web app front end that I scrapped…

Here's what I found about the underlying system https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/the-software-behind-the-hi... and the Hitachi Vantara Press Release: https://www.hitachivantara.co…

I do not believe there are any restrictions on what 0-days can be sold to or bought by the American government. As far as I know the only thing resembling restriction is regarding …