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Neat! Benford’s Law was the first topic I dove into in undergrad math that got a minor publication. Given how well known it is for forensic accounting I’ve always wanted to look into convictions and see if the “average” fraudster has wised up and produces more realistic distributions.

Ads, especially personalized ads, are the alternative that powers much of the open internet.

More options are great.

Many of the links have soft 404s as well. Seems like a dead site.

As someone that naturally used a rule of 3 and em dashes I hate AI for taking that away from me.

Get a custom domain. Strat using that. Route to Gmail to start but easily decouple.

It took me about a year of updates but now I rarely get anything to a @gmail

This is a very US centric view in part because of the low confidence in the American government to be able to effectively regulate negative impacts.

https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/publi...

I’ve always liked this idea but I think it eventually ends back up with essentially our current system. Users have multiple devices so you quickly get to needing a sync service. Once that gets complex enough, then people will outsource to a third party and then we are back to a FB/Google/Apple sign in and data mgmt world.

Just as parallel construction [1] is used by law enforcement to conceal methods and practices no reason to not expect the same for financial gain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

I use Fastmail and the main difference I notice is less effective spam filtering — it’s good but not as great as Gmail was.

Overall it’s been an acceptable trade off and I’m glad years ago I switched to a custom domain for email so I can have portability.

In my experience it is a lot like finding time to work on "strategy". There's never really explicit time given, you have to make it in the day, and its often the most valuable time spent.

I am sympathetic to the argument that I’d rather elected officials that have a path to be removed have the control of use more so than unelected executives.

Microsoft stopped chasing the education space with the wind down of 11SE [1].

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/microsoft-kills-wind...

It will be interesting to see if this is an exit for investors and which ones. Given it wasn’t an acquisition but licensing.

While an earlier poster is over stating Ostrom’s Nobel prize winning work — it is regularly shown that averting the tragedy of the commons is not as insurmountable as the original coining of the phrase implied.

Many of the fly by night digital proscribes just jack the dosage to show rapid gains. Coupled with people lying on BMI to get a script is a bad combination and why it’s so obvious.

Likely because (very?) few would associate LLMs in their current form with "digital slaves". Attributing personhood to a non-corporeal entity is likely a multi-generational change, if it ever happens.

Don’t forget you can’t dare offer water or food to those stuck in lines else that’s considered tampering in many (all?) locales in the US.

Mail in voting is just better all around for a geographically diverse place as the US and I wish would be adopted by all states.

This feels like getting taught in school not to cite Wikipedia when the actual digital literacy challenge is deeper— learn where the info comes from and to critically think.

Very cool. I love the tactical board game experience but automatic upkeep for rules is appealing.

As a parent I wish it had more details on the durability. I can just imagine spills, slams, non-game pieces being used and abused on this thing.

The Texas Stock Exchange launches next year and I predict we will see a lot of tech try to move to launch there given txse claim to have lower compliance and less esg needs.

Not mentioning Fei-Fei Li and her startup explicitly focused on world models is an interesting choice by the author.

Whether QE is a mechanism in the brain still seems up for debate from the quick literature review I tried, but would love to learn more.

Given the pace of quantum computing it doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility to “wire up” to LLMs in a couple years.

Is this not a tool that could be readily implemented and refined?

I like this mental model. Orchestration / Agents and using smaller models to determine the ideal tool input and check the output starts to look like delegation.

Watch it turns out you can tune the FP rate like how casinos can set the win rate on slot machines.

Reminds me of one of the opening stories in “ Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories” by qntm — a short story about getting simulated humans from brain scans to comply.

recent paper on “ How Well Does GPT-4o Understand Vision? Evaluating Multimodal Foundation Models on Standard Computer Vision Tasks” [1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01955

A bad culture can emerge with tooling first or meeting first cultures.

Let’s see — Apples track record of interoperability isn’t great unless dragged by regulatory bodies. Managing private emails at scale to migrate away from Apple for instance is wildly painful.

Thank God the jacket button is protected then.