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Baseball is also non-deterministic, and yet some players are apparently worth a lot more than others.

I stated that boring bounds improvement problems exist, not that all bounds problems are boring... Sigh.

Five (maybe six?) of the results are improvements on bounds. These kinds of problems tend to have some initial advances, and then stall out as the complexity of the bound skyrocket…

Some of them... The two places were seeing lots of movement are: * Updates to lower/upper bounds. In many cases, these kinds of problems are the deep-math equivalent of calculating…

I got an obviously-AI voice agent spam call yesterday. Had a bit of fun getting it to answer trivia questions (when was the treaty of westphalia ratified? answer in a rhyming coupl…

I did some of the napkin math on algae a couple years ago... The fun realization is that the physical carbon has to go somewhere. So if we're trying to sequester the average americ…

I doubt yoda speak is actually strict enough, but I do enjoy the idea that Yoda comes from a reverse Polish civilization.

... But are those CEOs ready to admit that those skills are needed?

"succeeding despite Elon musk" is, however, a skill set applicable at only a (strike)small number of companies (/strike) single company.

I dunno, ever used a thing you learned from a textbook in your job? Did you have to continue paying for the copy of that knowledge speed on your brain? No, because that's not what …

but.... the LLMs are actually all trained on approximately the same stuff, and tend to have similar quirks. In the human world, writers develop recognizable voices, which are detec…

The way the US military works, throwing rolls of toilet paper at the drone from the deck of the shop is likely more expensive than the drone said toilet paper is hurling towards.

Why is that? Companies still need employees, and ai makes it more obvious than ever that workers need to organize together for their rights.

Education research is hard hard hard. Getting clean studies, especially at large sample sizes, is extremely difficult, leading to a lot of ambiguity in results.

That sort of abstraction has always existed, it's just been a matter of hiring experts or labor from other humans. Reality still has a surprising amount of detail. You deal with it…

Well, you said people can't use things they don't understand. But I'll take your expanded statement, to include riding a horse, something even older than the engine. We don't under…

How many people drive cars without knowing how an engine works? Or make a phone call without knowing how voice compression for a cellular network does it's thing? Or eats food with…

Yah - it's simultaneously the hardest and most vital part of machine learning work, and completely non-monetizable.

In discussions of super intelligence and ai takeoff and such, I find it helpful to ask why the smartest humans usually aren't heads of state...

kwargs exists, and is rather more pythonic. Just pass the kwargs dict to a standard formatting function, et voila.

I got a very different message from this, actually much closer to the problem of incumbent advantage. The known-good thing has been heavily optimized for performance, making it muc…

Here's a recent nytimes article in a quote positive experience using ai in place of a realtor: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/technology/sell-house-wit...

It's the standard problem of devolving responsibility to individual action: the effect is so diffuse as to be negligible in all but the most extreme cases. In most cases, one would…

Boycotts are the weakest form of protest.

Of course, you can use Option B to write the program, and then run it on your own machine...