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bunsen.itch.io 8h ago

The Snake Temple game in 10 lines of BASIC

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www.latimes.com 9h ago

If you watch YouTube it may owe you $100

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economist.com 20h ago

America's AI labs are under threat from cheap Chinese rivals

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github.com 23h ago

Headroom - compress AI agent input for reduced token usage w/out harming output

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economist.com 1d ago

Where should you move for higher pay?

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block.xyz 1d ago

From Hierarchy to Intelligence

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www.npr.org 1d ago

Games of 2026 So Far

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www.economist.com 1d ago

The surprising benefits of red light

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github.blog 1d ago

GitHub Code Quality is now generally available

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www.ycombinator.com 2d ago

Advice for New Managers (2016)

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www.ycombinator.com 2d ago

The Playbook for Building an AI Native Company

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economist.com 2d ago

Prepare for a world of ad hoc coalitions

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www.economist.com 2d ago

China's mysterious new billionaires are conquering the world

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medium.com 2d ago

Project Architecture – Developer's Guide to Building Scalable Software

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fabiensanglard.net 2d ago

Let's compile like it's 1992

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spectrum.ieee.org 2d ago

Connection Machine Joins All to All to Optimize Better

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smolnero.com 3d ago

From Enlightenment to Alignment

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www.un.org 3d ago

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

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variety.com 4d ago

Netflix Paid $587M for Ben Affleck's AI Startup InterPositive

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github.com 4d ago

DOOMQL – Game Engine in SQL

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drfeifei.substack.com 4d ago

A Functional Taxonomy of World Models by Fei-Fei Li

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www.sciencedirect.com 4d ago

Using asteroid early orbital data for rapid Mars missions

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www.isomorphiclabs.com 4d ago

The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold

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observer.com 4d ago

The Most Powerful People in A.I

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economist.com 5d ago

A Silly Adaptation of "The Odyssey"

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www.cs.utexas.edu 6d ago

Notes on Structured Programming [pdf]

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www.economist.com 6d ago

How to make AI safe and free of America and China

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www.kqed.org 6d ago

Too Old for Silicon Valley? Think Again. AI Is Changing the Math

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chemistry.berkeley.edu 6d ago

Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018)

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www.aswf.io 7d ago

DreamWorks and Canonical Develop Snap Installer for MoonRay

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Nuance is “resources” has the connotation of exploitation whereas “talent” is positive. The former is used to also refer to non-human things like iron ore, but I am not aware that “talent” is ever used to refer to anything other than people.

Also, I’m not trying to change people to stop using the word “resources”, even if I am not a fan.

That’s a weird thing to be upset and reprimand us about.

I suppose one can insist that people say “most talented people” but it seems so much more streamlined and to say “top talent”. I have never come across anyone who is bothered by this.

FWIW I am way more bothered by the use of the word “resources” to refer to people. I think it is disgusting and offensive.

It is logical that there are people who are great at what they do and others who are not. We’ve all worked with both and if you are in the business of finding talented people, how else would you talk about it?

South Africa has the continent’s only working reactors, while Egypt is building four with Russian backing. Eight countries — Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda — have plans to introduce new plants, while several more have expressed interest in doing so, according to the International Energy Agency.

This is great to see!

political leadership of the US are literally are staking the future of GDP on exactly those few AI companies... $1.4trillion so far

Can you explain where you get that number from?

The information I have:

a) The government took a nearly $9 billion stake in Intel to support its chip-making efforts.

b) The Pentagon took a $400 million equity stake in MP Materials, a rare-earth miner.

c) Sam Altman has advocated that the US government take equity stakes in AI companies. Sen Bernie Sanders wants the US government to take 50% stake in AI companies! Nothing has come of it though.

d) Defense department AI contract value rose to $90.7B in 2026.

So I'm super curious where you pulled that $1.4T number from.

getting an abortion is a minute not spent tracking down a murderer

but see, there are people who believe abortion is murder, and perhaps one of the worst forms of murder because of its victim’s extreme innocence since it has not caused any harm in this world.