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11101010001100··on Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
Pay the fine and Pay for pardon is the business du jour.
11101010001100··on South Korea police say 120k home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage
I know how to do that, but I don't.
11101010001100··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
If OpenAI is smart here, they would figure out that you can make more money on a flop than with a hit. I bet an AI would figure that out.
11101010001100··on High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
Yes, I hold, sell and by stock the same way. Either it is a market, or it isn't.
11101010001100··on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
It may come across as bragging to some. You can decide if that is fair.
11101010001100··on Implications of AI to schools
As a teacher, I try to keep an open mind, but consistently I can find out in 5 minutes of talking to a student if they understand the material. I might just go all in for the oral exams.
11101010001100··on How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
Yes, we are doing a bad job of updating our priors.
11101010001100··on Over-regulation is doubling the cost
Even to chemical engineers, life cycle analysis is not something that is general knowledge.
11101010001100··on Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale
In other words, proofs of existence are measure zero in the space of evolution?
11101010001100··on Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
This is the sort of stuff that happens when someone who had one good idea long ago has run out of good ideas.
11101010001100··on No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off
The good news is that you can't 'theoretically' stop a gravy train.
11101010001100··on Why a maker of spark plugs and wiper blades has Wall Street worried
Gotta love when the journalist finds an expert, asks the question, and the expert goes: "My guess..."
11101010001100··on What’s so great about excellence? (1981)
No, they will still have scholarships. Just not all the scholarships.
11101010001100··on Class Dismissed: Profile of Joe Liemandt and Alpha School
As noted in the article, for people who won't RTA, the original 2sigma observation of 1 on 1 is due to Bloom more than 40 years ago.
11101010001100··on John Jumper: AI is revolutionizing scientific discovery [video]
I think the PR is making it seem that Deepmind is not standing on the shoulder of giants, when in fact it very much is. The paper itself makes this clear. I wish them luck!
11101010001100··on Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
Well, the article is not off to a good start. COVID-19 is modeled by an SIR dynamical system, which is at times, is approximately exponential.

At times.

11101010001100··on The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers
also known as power.
11101010001100··on How Isaac Newton discovered the binomial power series (2022)
This stuff always makes me chuckle. Magnus Carlsen learned chess without guidance, modulo his father being a rated player.
11101010001100··on I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster
You still pay for power for the cloud.
11101010001100··on America is in a serious jobs slump
How about just a few Americans then.
11101010001100··on Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
All the responsibility should be put on the parents? I suggest you run through scenarios of what that might look like....
11101010001100··on The maths you need to start understanding LLMs
Apologies for the metacomment, but HN is a funny place. There is a certain type of learning that is deemed good ('math for AI') and a certain type of learning that is deemed bad ('leetcode for AI').
11101010001100··on AI not affecting job market much so far, New York Fed says
Benioff is making the same bet uber did with self driving cars, maybe this time it will be different?
11101010001100··on The wall confronting large language models
So we just need a lot of monkeys at computers?
11101010001100··on The wall confronting large language models
Succi is no slouch; hardcore multiscale physics guy, among other things.
11101010001100··on In Search of AI Psychosis
Behold, irony!
11101010001100··on Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public
By this logic, it will be exploited even without disclosure.
11101010001100··on New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely
The S curve here is not some physical law.
11101010001100··on Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta's A.I. Efforts, Again
ok, but I want to know if these superstars still had to leetcode interviews.
11101010001100··on Figma files for proposed IPO
Wait, so no one asked Evan to explain the code? Something smells fishy.
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