Weathering software winter (2022)
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Farms and data centers contribute to a water pollution crisis in Eastern Oregon
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GPT-5 has come a long way in mathematics
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How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
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A field guide to writing styles
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Glenn Close - promoting the new Knives Out - "I'm not as fierce as I seem"
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The hardest-working art thief in history
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A review of Alpha School
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The best Steve Yegge posts (2015)
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Signs of introspection in large language models
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OpenAI moves to complete potentially the largest theft in human history
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The hatred of podcasting
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Clive Barker: trust your vision (1990)
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Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing
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Talking to the Bank of England about systemic risk and systems engineering
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If AI can diagnose patients, what are doctors for?
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Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
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Introducing Beads: A coding agent memory system
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What it takes to be a revolutionary war enactor
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Private vs public surveillance: reflections on Edward Snowden’s personal record
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Editing nature to fix mistakes
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Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
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Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
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Voices of the Manhattan Project: Peggy Bowditch’s interview
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Hydropower, heat pumps and EVs made Norway a climate darling. Oil and gas exports made it rich. The paradox shaping this country's future – and the world's energy transition.
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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
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