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Writing a simulator requires understanding the game well enough to spec the simulator. Acquiring said understanding - within the action limits of the benchmark – seems like the hea…

Correct.

In essentially all cases where a Waymo and a human-driven car have collided, the human driver has clearly been at fault. This seems definitive and not susceptible to cherry picking…

Water on the moon is limited and difficult to collect, it wouldn't make sense to use it for industrial purposes. It's a very challenging thermal environment (baking during the day,…

+1 to this. It's also visually confusing, the gate looks like it's covering two cells. Great game! Feature request: add a button that shows my submitted solution. I'd like to be ab…

No, because there are lots of things people can do that it still can't do.

I presume you're referring to the recent METR study. One aspect of the study population, which seems like an important causal factor in the results, is that they were working in la…

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/3106/

For people who prefer reading to watching videos, I wrote a detailed account of my process for solving one of last year's IMO problems, along with thoughts on how this relates to A…

A few questions / thoughts: 1. I didn't see it stated explicitly, but I presume the neural net is on the far end of a radio link somewhere, not running on hardware physically mount…

The numbering jump is because there was "Claude 3.5" and then "Claude 3.5 (new)" and they decided to retroactively stop the madness and rename the later to 3.6 (which is what every…

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "dynamic text box" but it was just a contenteditable div. There have been at least two complete rewrites since I was involved, nowadays I beli…

This one line was like 90% of the original implementation of Writely (the startup that became Google Docs; source: I was one of the founders). The other 90% was all the backend cod…

The article clearly states that providing enough power to run the heaters was one of the challenges that led to the death of the probe. Satellites are rarely in the shade for an ex…

Two different people I know with pro subscriptions report not having access yet.

There isn't a uniform temperature across the entire exchanger. There's a smooth gradient extending from one end to the other. If the outside is hotter, then the inbound air gradual…

NDAs don't generally have an expiration date. (As opposed to non-competes and non-solicitation agreements, which generally do.) An NDA typically ends only if the information in que…