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I remember reading this brilliant piece of reporting when it first came out. The author, Sarah Zhang, since wrote two more pieces for The Atlantic: May 2025: https://www.theatlanti…

> Many of the world’s leading researchers believe that A.I. will soon be powerful enough to improve itself with little or no help from human developers. > “A.I. is code. And now, A…

Marc Andreessen would beg to differ :) On a recent a16z podcast, Andreessen said: “It's possible that [being a VC] is quite literally timeless, and when the AIs are doing everythin…

The author is Leif Wenar, Professor of Philosophy (as well as Humanities, Political Science, and Law) at Stanford. He’s the author of the book Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the…

(2015) According to web.archive.org this is from Nov 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20151108010026/https://playbook....

If you're on a Mac, you can find the exact processor model number by opening Terminal.app and entering sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string this will return something like Intel(R) C…

Don Stewart has given possibly the best answer to this question on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6398996/good-haskell-sour...

@liuliu - in the last graph, there's quite a jump from epoch 26 to 27. I'm curious to find out what might be causing this.

According to the reporter, this abandoned theme park is a harbinger of doom for China's economy. But couldn't it instead be viewed as evidence of entrepreneurial risk-taking activi…