Suspicious discontinuities
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The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation
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Have we reached peak AI?
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The incredible durability of James Hong
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Can Reddit survive its own IPO?
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Are we watching the internet die?
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I found Frank Herbert’s Dune script. It’s hard to imagine a weirder film version of Dune than the one David Lynch released in 1984, but Frank Herbert found a way. Dune: Part Two is better.
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On popular online platforms, predatory groups coerce children into self-harm
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The Second Soul, Part I (on salt)
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Is private equity actually worth it?
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The life-ruining power of routines: Habits don’t lead to personal optimisation. They lead to suffering.
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Leaving LinkedIn: Choosing engineering excellence over expediency
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Analysis: Donald Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030
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How Turkey moved east – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the rise of an Anatolian foreign policy
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You can now train a 70b language model at home (if you have a dual-3090 or better)
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Why are there so many methane satellites?
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The Houthis are very, very, pleased
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Russia is burning up its future
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Notes on conciseness
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“Between the hammer and the anvil” – The story behind the New York Times October 7 exposé
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Why small developers are getting squeezed out of the housing market
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How parents' trauma leaves biological traces in children
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A professor claimed to be Native American. Did she know she wasn’t?
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The limits of the lunchbox moment
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What happens when prosecutors offer contradictory versions of the truth?
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Ant geopolitics
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How the Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets—and Vladimir Putin
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Airfoil
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An American education: Notes from UATX
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All aboard the bureaucracy train
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Indexing the information age - Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable
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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened
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Why isn’t solar scaling in Africa?
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The loneliness of Jodie Foster
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