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In pure maths: - pre GPT-5.4: very limited use; some smart people got some mileage out of the models, but it always required serious work and a very suitable problem. Of course the…

Graham/Knuth/Patashnik is a lot less "basic discrete maths you're most likely to need" and a lot more "number sequences we've known and loved". Almost more useful for physicists du…

I found the choice of material quite nonstandard. And the writing is witty, full of MIT humor. It's a bit sad that the writing has stopped in 2018.

Most of the dark patterns are not fun. The "psychological dark patterns" are, to some healthy degree.

Neat... but most good RPGs fit much of the "psychological dark patterns" listed at https://www.darkpattern.games/pattern/4/psychological-dark-p... . So the total scores won't be as…

This looks like an index of Mir books, without any additional sorting or curation. You probably can get a good education on many topics out of these, but also waste significant tim…

I have a hunch that most of the slop is not just on CS but specifically about AI. For some reason, a lot of people's first idea when they encounter an LLM is "let's have this LLM w…

Look for anything written by Jesse Singal or Charles Murray for the well-researched anti-woke content I'm referring to (and there is a lot of more; these are just two authors who m…

Note that I've said "anti-woke content", not "anti-woke media". I am including the occasional "course correction" opeds and actually well-researched longreads you're seeing in plac…

Yeah, encyclopedias are meant to be indexes to knowledge, not repositories thereof. The WP feature-creeped its way to the latter, but it is not reliably good at it, and I'm not sur…

Don't forget that public opinion and the media landscape are quite different in 2025 from what they were in the 2010s when most prior studies on WP bias have been written. Sufficie…

Wondering if the project will get better from the pushback or will just be folded like one of Elon's many ADHD experiments. In a sense, encyclopedias should be easy for LLMs: they …

That's the longest pronoun signature I've seen.

NB: None of what you are saying is confirmed by the WP page you are citing.

And soon it will be "but I don't want to learn Lean".

The cube doesn't work, or at least it didn't for me. The goggly eyes really do make a difference.

When I get fired, the news better come in an email titled "Steps in the Right Direction".

I guess monks were procrastinating likewise when they illuminated their manuscripts.

Tikz is misplaced in this list; it is how you make any kind of vector drawings in LaTeX. It's not the only way, but perhaps the best documented and most expressive one. If you have…

That looks like the kind of paper that causes companies to lose lots of money by hyping up what is likely a less-than-impressive method. But it does not make any theoretical claims…

You're right, the authors are not to blame for the lack of context -- I misdirected my anger at the phys.org nonsense towards the actual authors.

The actual article (OA!): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00029890.2025.2... This is about solving polynomial equations using Lagrange inversion. This method, as one m…

One day, someone will discover a use for across-the-page watermarks that is not better handled by marginalia and makes up for the loss in readability, copyability and compatibility…

What about a header/footer saying "DRAFT" (ideally with the date and other things that would perhaps not fit on a watermark)?

Yeah, not so much harping on you as on the whole ecosystem. You seem to have done your part well.