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That's actually shockingly similar. I'm sure someone has studied the mathematics of fuel transport in much greater detail -- I wonder if it's a simple problem to optimize or someth…

Haha thank you! I'm the original author of the linked article, and I had a LOT of fun naming the donkey transfer algorithms I came up with.

You might be able to fine-tune GPT-3 on Assyrian Inscriptions and create a GPTiglath-Pileser III

I actually wrote an article about this a couple weeks ago. https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/is-a-hot-dog-a-sandwich... My contention is that the definition-first approach to de…

An article I wrote about a fascinating pre-Roman British counting system, that happens to sound hilarious.

This is fascinating, thank you! You’re absolutely correct, the single GR course i took linearized the EFE for the section on gravity waves and the concept that gravitation self-gra…

This is clearly a double-bluff by science. Nice try science, I don’t trust science enough to believe this pseudoscience! In all seriousness though, with the magnitude of the psycho…

This article makes an interesting contrast with another article on hackernews this morning, about the median student debt of Columbia MFA students: https://www.wsj.com/articles/fin…

I'm not an Egyptologist, but I can read hieroglyphs and can say with surety that Egyptian hieroglyphs are both pictographic AND alphabetic. It's actually an interesting system, whe…

There is a lot of not-quite-correct information about Egyptian hieroglyphs in the replies to this comment. Hieroglyphs are actually a hybrid system, incorporating uniliteral glyphs…