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The exact same thing jumped out at me, for the opposite reason. I have unlimited data + tethering, so I can use my laptop with fast internet anywhere. That's the big breakthrough f…

For me it was more than my first scan. I understand the word is Majorana, but when I go to pronounce it or read it, my brain reports back "Major-auwana." The people who signed off …

Funny side note: he was paid $1 of salary

1) More spam on Android by far 2) Spotify not blocked There’s a bit of religion happening in both directions. iOS has, objectively, fewer problems than Android in these regards and…

Yup. Weird internet never went anywhere. You’ve always been able to find bespoke, organic, locally owned, premium grade A hipster indie stuff online. It’s just not as popular to as…

There was a whole trial about this. If Apple had these deals, it would have come out. Google and Apple ran things differently.

Fair. This paper found the same thing. Women on teams leads to better results. But “token” members of teams do not. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01389-w

These are all reasonable questions. Here’s one paper of many that explains why the answer to your question is yes. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01389-w

If you know that putting four wheels on a car works better than putting three wheels on a car, that doesn't make you biased against three wheels. It makes you biased towards better…

[Late update: I am a genius]

I love Pi, but I'm not on the market for asking it to act like Hitler or talk about relating to Mother Teresa or not. The ability to say "Hey what's happened in the OpenAI saga in …

In that spirit, here are some thoughts. * Sam goes to MS * Sam stays at OpenAI * Sam starts his own thing His own thing feels super unlikely because he’s said he’d go to MS. Stayin…

You win

It’s not 1998 anymore, you’d be surprised

Correct answer

It’s possible be extremely smart in one narrow way and a complete idiot when it comes to understanding leadership, people, politics, etc. For example, Elon Musk was smart enough to…

Impossible challenge

It’s a bit long for the TLDR crowd, and it was passionate. But no, it was a good post and the cultural expectation to keep things shorter and more buttoned up has some real downsid…

This entire thread should be saved in the Smithsonian. It’s the most epic bikeshedding about the stupidest idea, with people emotionally tying it to their pet peeves. Capitalism! W…

TIL the term “brown study”

You know, I had learned POSSE a long time ago but forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder!

Hi, I'm the author! * Instagram makes you log in after swiping a few screens * Twitter used to do the same thing, probably not anymore The argument isn't rss versus not rss, or log…

I love this! Robin Sloan has been encouraging people to think in these directions this year, and is trying to help these inventors find each other: https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/n…