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This particular population is highly selected because of the work they do and the types of clearances they hold. I would expect the suicide rate to differ significantly from the ge…

Autonomous and semi-autonomous systems address that.

It isn't just aging. Americans are spending a lot more on quality-of-life medical interventions, many of which are outside the normal standard of care that would be covered by heal…

Most likely minimal? The mass is low. I am, however, reminded that the orbit of the asteroid Juno (~250km diameter) permanently changed in 1839 without an obvious cause.

I think it is a mistake to optimize for happiness instead of life satisfaction. The latter is more durable and manifests as more productive social outcomes, since it is strongly co…

I would much rather optimize for life satisfaction than happiness. If happiness is only weakly correlated with economics then it is poor policy to use economics as a lever to incre…

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae6db7

One of the unique properties of gallium is that it does not form meaningful concentrated ores. The concentration of gallium in your backyard is roughly the same concentration as ga…

There are several interesting foundational problems around scalability, generality, efficiency, and adaptability. Historically use cases haven't always been there to justify focusi…

The databases we use today in production have severe limitations and are not even close to what is theoretically possible. Many traditional parts of a database (indexing, caching, …

Many database companies have research labs. It allows you to explore ideas, unorthodox concepts, and parts of the design space that may never be reflected in an actual product. Or …

The percentage of China's GDP that is dependent on foreign demand (15.7%) is the second lowest among major economies. The only major economy that is lower is the US at 9.0%, which …

The median US household is statistically within the ballpark of being able to achieve this per the data. Americans have extremely high incomes and anomalously low taxes on the midd…

The anti-correlation between bonds and equities hasn’t been a thing for decades. That is advice that passed its sell-by date a while ago. The modern version is to go hard into equi…

Federal Reserve studies indicate that 10-15% of the US population can’t save money due to fundamental financial realities. That is, the necessary expenses of an ordinary lifestyle …

Southern Viet Pho is not supposed to be sweet. Northern Pho is in almost all ways inferior to Southern Pho. Even Northerners tend to prefer the Southern style. Something important …

> What is shocking to me is how can so many boomers still have a mortgage? If you have a low-interest mortgage then it doesn't make financial sense to pay it off any faster than yo…

The downside is frontier computer science in several domains is decades beyond the state-of-the-art from academic literature. This is the situation that patents were designed to di…

The patents are effectively unenforcible. People stopped patenting frontier computer science research 20 years ago. That is the current reality.

There is almost no benefit in publishing frontier research as a startup. People can try to argue it but it is not defensible. Publishing that kind of thing is a flex that companies…

Several things can be true simultaneously: The process and standards of peer-reviewed publication are tedious. If the objective is efficient communication of knowledge, this is not…

Nothing exposed here is something hardcore cryptanalytic people don’t already suspect and possibly know. The subtle leakiness of AES has been known for many years and a lot of rese…

> The median American household has $8000 of liquid cash in all of their cash accounts combined. That’s a lot of liquid cash. It reinforces the idea that the median American househ…

The concept has not always had this name, that is more recent branding. ~25 years ago it was formalized by a proof that optimal generalized learning is a universal sequence predict…