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www.chronicle.com 1mo ago

I'm a Philosophy Professor. Here's Why I'm Training AI to Replace Me

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www.wsj.com 1mo ago

The US Needs Mechanics and Electricians.Big Business Is Spending to Create Some

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www.cnbc.com 1mo ago

Bitcoin is cratering, but there is a new Wall Street crypto HYPE

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www.drive.com.au 1mo ago

BYD will pay for any damage caused using it's autonomous driving technology

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research.swtch.com 1mo ago

Pulling a New Proof from Knuth's Fixed-Point Printer

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www.theatlantic.com 1mo ago

Donald Trump's Superficiality Is Bone-Deep

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www.nytimes.com 1mo ago

Dear President

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www.bloomberg.com 1mo ago

Can't Find a Job After Graduation? Blame WFH, Not AI

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www.wsj.com 1mo ago

Trump's Takeover of the American Regulatory Machine

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www.wsj.com 1mo ago

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers

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www.reuters.com 1mo ago

Australia's far-right party leads in national poll for first time

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www.washingtonpost.com 1mo ago

AI fiction is the new fast food

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www.cnbc.com 1mo ago

Mercedes-Benz may be shut out of U.S. market due to Chinese ownership

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www.cnbc.com 1mo ago

Nvidia says it has largely conceded China's AI chip market to Huawei

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www.channelnews.com.au 1mo ago

TP-Link Jumps Gun with Wi-Fi 8 Router Ahead of Final Standard

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www.npr.org 1mo ago

UFC arena under construction on White House lawn

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arxiv.org 1mo ago

Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)

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www.vatican.va 1mo ago

Presentation and promulgation of the Encyclical Letter "Magnifica humanitas"

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dl.acm.org 1mo ago

The Unix Timesharing System 1974: Denis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson

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gitlab.com 1mo ago

Femtosecond Jitter: High Performance White Rabbit Timing Receiver

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ethw.org 1mo ago

James D. Johnston the father of perceptual audio coding

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www.theatlantic.com 1mo ago

The Cruelty Is the Point: President Trump and His Supporters

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thehill.com 2mo ago

Trump directs legal migrants to return to home country to apply for green cards

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www.independent.co.uk 2mo ago

MAHA's latest conspiracy? Blaming Bill Gates for spike in tick bites

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lithub.com 2mo ago

A prize-winning story published in Granta was (likely) written by AI

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www.wired.com 2mo ago

ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize

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www.theguardian.com 2mo ago

Vance tells anti-immigration protesters in the UK to 'keep on going'

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www.theatlantic.com 2mo ago

Heads, Trump Wins ( Tails, he still wins)

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www.bbc.com 2mo ago

Standard Chartered to cut roles as AI use increases

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www.esd.whs.mil 2mo ago

US Joint Forces Command Millennium Challenge 2002: Experiment Report [pdf]

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In the hands of a domain expert, AI is useful. In the hands of the naive, it is a foot gun.

I killed my Arch installation and was stuck at the GRUB prompt.Unwilling to brush up my rusty knowledge of GRUB syntax, I asked Gemini for help. The commands Gemini suggested would have wiped my hd...

Once Gemini was told that I was using BTRFS, the suggestion from Gemini looked a bit more sane, but still looked incorrect to me.

It was only after I informed Gemini that I was using a NMVE with BTRFS that it finally produced a sane command.

I know someone who is with a leading firm. He is involved in a new multibillion USD matter every month.

The clients simply do not care about the multimillion dollar legal bills, since it is just a rounding error at that scale.

I find it hard to see AI being integrated at that end of the market.

"The library’s stance, to put it simply, that the juice ain’t worth the squeeze when it comes to low level, compute-bound performance.

Designing software and data structures for performance against unknown use cases on unknown hardware is extremely difficult and the resulting code is much more complicated. Even then, it’s often better to use code written against your actual use case and hardware when performance is that critical.

Things that are off the table might be:

SIMD A highly optimized hash table rewrite Figuring out where inlining or LIKELY causes the compiler to produce better code."

LOL...

Classic vibe coder.

China going capitalist ( while remaining authoritarian ) has helped lift 800 million out of desperate poverty.

I hope that India too can emulate this in my lifetime. I was born in Kerala and would love to see Indians live in a country that is as wealthy per capita ( PPP adjusted ) as Singapore or failing that even as wealthy as the USA.

Capitalism has it's problems. But you struggling with rent is entirely your self-inflicted problem...

All empires eventually decay and die.

Wang, Bull, Unisys, IBM, DEC, the Mongolian Empire, the Hungarian Empire, Dutch Empire, the Portugese Empire.... they all exist in some form, but are shadows of their former selves.

IBM died because it was forced to hire second raters to fill the ranks.

Over time, the company became synonymous with failure and mediocrity.

"The principal goal is to dedicate most of the Foundation’s financial resources to technical work.....

To make this possible, the Haskell Foundation will remain without an executive director for the foreseeable future.

Instead of having a full-time employee in charge of fundraising, events, coordination, mediation and much more, we will split these responsibilities between the Board and a new, part-time role dedicated to the Haskell Foundation’s financial sustainability."

Sounds a great move in principle.

Krita is so much more accessible than GIMP.

Only Gimp devs would love Gimps interface.

Just the existence of Gimp seems like so much effort flushed down the toilet because of someone's bad, bad taste and incredibly poor user interface design

"The simulated U.S. Navy battle group was defeated in ten minutes by an enemy that launched its attacks from commercial ships and using other unconventional means.

The findings of the newly released postmortem from the $250 million Millennium Challenge 2002 exercise foreshadowed “the very challenges the United States would face in... other conflicts since then,” according to Jones, who is FOIA director at the Post."

"Red received an ultimatum from Blue, essentially a surrender document, demanding a response within 24 hours. Thus warned of Blue's approach, Red used a fleet of small boats to determine the position of Blue's fleet by the second day of the exercise. In a preemptive strike, Red launched a massive salvo of cruise missiles that overwhelmed the Blue forces' electronic sensors and destroyed sixteen warships: one aircraft carrier, ten cruisers and five of Blue's six amphibious ships. An equivalent success in a real conflict would have resulted in the deaths of over 20,000 service personnel.

Soon after the cruise missile offensive, another significant portion of Blue's navy was "sunk" by an armada of small Red boats, which carried out both conventional and suicide attacks that capitalized on Blue's inability to detect them as well as expected."