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is there another way to live?

[buemlned @buemlned]

Books about How X Works.

[buemlned @buemlned]

A world with only red people is probably hell.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

[nic carter @nic_carter]

AI makes podcasts MORE important not less

AI means anyone can sound smart in written form

But you can’t fake verbal intelligence

Verbalmaxxing speechmoggers will inherit the earth

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

The best ever advice to achieve a long term goal by Tolstoy:

[Bryan Cheong @bryancsk]

One of the cute things the Japanese do with their seals is that the subordinates would all tilt their seals to bow towards the highest rank like in the example below

[stockfish @trevorsaudi]

Watched this a while back and it helped me understand why i was not improving in some things i was learning about

[David - Nostalgic Realms - Lair of the Leviathan @nostalgicrealms]

The program I use and the art I make.

[Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT @LanguageMIT]

New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press.

This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website:
https://t.co/ksQfTGoxpK

[The Vow: Vampire's Curse| WISHLIST ON STEAM @MimyrGames]

The engine we use & the Game we’re making
#godot #indiedev #indiegame

[banteg @banteg]

randomly found out that you can send a .zip to all of chatgpt, claude, gemini. so you can just do git archive master instead of your code to xml/md prompt tool of choice.

[Birth Gauge @BirthGauge]

The year of the Dragon led to an increase in the number of births in China of 5.8% to 9.54M in 2024.
The TFR stood at 1.10 children per woman (exactly what I thought it would be), up from 1.02 in 2023.

[Rob Mensching @robmen]

Lots of analysis of the xz/liblzma vulnerability. Most skip over the first step of the attack:

0. The original maintainer burns out, and only the attacker offers to help (so the attacker inherits the trust of the project built by the maintainer).

Read their words👇🏻 1/

[Shengyi Wang @txyyss]

批判爱因斯坦我也以为大家都知道的。这不是著名的爱因斯坦小故事之一嘛，就是说有人告诉爱因斯坦，苏联还是哪里出了本书，叫《一百个科学家证明爱因斯坦错了》，爱因斯坦耸耸肩：一百个太多了，一个就够了，如果我真的错了的话。

小时候读到这个故事真是高山仰止，理论错了更好啊，可以找新的了。

[cts🌸 @gf_256]

so over 33% of applicants fail on FizzBuzz

anyways here's our Head of BD/Growth solving it on first try

[Nathan 🔎 @NathanpmYoung]

Glicko rankings of every nation, using their wars

[Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn]

I think viewers tend to over-interpret Kubrick, but I saw this on here the other day, and I’m still pondering it:

[Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue]

1967, the second year of China’s ten-year Cultural Revolution (1966-76), a boy and Big Posters大字报 on the wall.
📸 : Max Schele

[buemlned @buemlned]

@lisperati Cache and cache invalidation

[The Base Rate Times @base_rate_times]

DeepMind releases AlphaGeometry, explicitly stating it can solve Olympiad-level geometry problems

What do prediction markets think?

◦ Timeline to Gold at International Math Olympiad accelerates by 13 months, now Oct 2027 (@metaculus)

◦ Timeline to AGI accelerates by 2 months, now Sept 2031 (@metaculus)

◦ AI now 58% likely to win at least Bronze before 2026, up from 40% (@ManifoldMarkets)

◦ AI still 45% to solve next Millennium Prize Problem (@metaculus) & 67% for an unsolved problem in maths before 2030 (@ManifoldMarkets), no change

[buemlned @buemlned]

@PradyuPrasad Prediction market up: https://t.co/Ea3GUno45P