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I became interested in learning Go recently after watching the magnificent AlphaGo movie [1] which is free on YouTube. I highly recommend giving it a watch if you haven't already. …

On the contrary, I would argue that conscious attention is only focused on one of those subroutines at a time. When the ball is in play you focus in it, and everything from your po…

This is great! I love The Devil's Plan, I wish I could play all of the games. Some sort of in-person escape room-style experience re-enacting the games would be the best, but I hav…

I recently listened to this Diary of a CEO podcast episode [1] discussing the potential link between blood glucose from carbohydrate-heavy diets and cancer. It is an alternate meta…

"I Taught My Shrimp to Fry Rice" also comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/upgdrBO02Gs

RealityKit (iOS & visionOS AR/VR/3D library) makes use of USD. Native apps and games for the Vision Pro will also use USD, alongside their new implementation of Entity Component Sy…

One of my favourite board games is called Burn Rate. The premise is a parody of silicon valley during the boom. You compete with the other players for talent (each employee is a ca…

I wish I could, but it is proprietary for now.

I quit my job recently to work on AGI. I have some unique insights that I wanted to put into practice. The past month has been the most intellectually stimulating, challenging, and…

> I invent a medicine [...] It costs me 1$ > we sell it with 1$ [sic] Your profit here is zero, in your own hypothetical scenario. Help me understand why the Math is different. > c…

In scenario #1, there is no financial incentive (read: livable wages for researchers, manufacturers, etc.) to create medicine because your profit is $0, and we have 1000 deaths bec…

The only analogue that comes to mind is in financial fraud detection: moving money slowly or in a predictable pattern (monthly rent payments etc.) triggers no alarms, but large or …

If CBDC issuance coincides with banning physical cash, what makes you think that they won't enforce capital controls on alternative currencies?

European banks recently started toying with the idea of passing down negative interest rates to customer bank deposits, so that banks are less squeezed by reserves yielding negativ…

I agree with their assessment. No sensitive data's confidentiality or integrity was impacted, and no availability impact to users.

Wall Street is simply acutely aware that the global economy is highly leveraged and switching off the entire economy is likely to end very badly if a de-leveraging were to take pla…

> the worst go off to a competitor which then fails to gain mainstream attention (e.g. Voat, Gab, etc). Or, HN :)

While I don't think the selloff is over, the bull case for American equities (I assume you are talking about U.S. stock market) is still quite strong: - Emerging markets, Japan, an…

This article left the same exact taste in my mouth (eyes?) The author has roughly described the concepts of wage inflation and supply-and-demand (for workers, in one industry, and …

From a contrarian investing perspective, the number of non-finance companies branching into finance indicates that we are near the end of this credit cycle. This is large-scale cap…

From my cursory understanding, they are not under direct pressure but recent legal fines have implicitly made the risks of remaining operational sky-high. What did the litigators t…

I agree. Unfortunately, a lot of security tools get misused in general. (Don't get me started on CVSS!) I like ASVS and hope that it becomes more popular. Other control standards l…