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Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.

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  The vast majority of open-source software developers are unpaid and go unnoticed.

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  A great many (perhaps the vast majority) of open-source software developers are unpaid and even unnoticed.

  Should I Ask for Sponsorship?yihui.org

Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.

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  The world has achieved universal access to school and nowhere near universal learning, and closing that second gap is the whole problem left in education.

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  We have universal access. What we are trying to do is bring universal learning. So there's a vast disparity in how much kids learn during that 12 years that while they may have access to it, learning is very different.

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Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".

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  Most AI lab revenue comes from non-frontier models, where cheaper comparable alternatives already exist elsewhere.

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  what this tells us is that the vast majority of the labs' revenue comes from non-frontier models, for which cheaper, comparable alternatives are already available elsewhere.

  Who Wins As Intelligence Commodifies?strangeloopcanon.com

Senior space editor at Ars Technica; wrote Liftoff and Reentry on SpaceX, and reports on launch and rocket programmes.

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  Almost nobody in America is paying attention to the space race with China, and a Chinese landing at the lunar south pole will change that.

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  This will likely serve as a wake-up call to those not paying attention to the US-China space race—which, to be clear, is the vast majority of Americans.

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Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Factfulness

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  The world is bad, but better. The vast majority of westerners believe the world is poorer, more violent, deadly, primitive, and awful than it actually is. This book beautifully illustrates our ignorance, updates your knowledge, and gives you tools for a fact-based worldview.

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General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.

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  Before the internet, most Americans had no practical freedom of speech unless they owned or worked for a media corporation.

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  the vast majority of Americans had no practical freedom of speech unless they owned a media corporation or were employed by one.

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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  Claude Connectors

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  This is why I recommend ignoring the vast web of custom and “community-built” MCP servers you can find out there, and focusing your attention on the two safer bets instead

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Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who advises companies on corporate governance and mission protection.

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  Shareholder primacy is about forty years old rather than a natural law, and for centuries before it a corporation existed to pursue a specific beneficial purpose.

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  this idea is old enough that we now have a generation of people who have been raised as if this was a natural law. This is how capitalism has always been. But that's wrong. For the vast majority of the time, for hundreds of years, we have had joint stock corporations. Only the last 40 have we had this idea.

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Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.

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  Shortened versions of hard hobbies profit mainly from casual participants riding a legacy sport's superstar mythology, not from elite-level players.

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  It's interesting that the Shorter hobby businesses all draft off superstars in the legacy hobby, but make their vast majority of their money from people who will of course never come close to the level superstars - you'd still go to pickleball and talk Nadal vs Federer, you'd still go to Top Golf and make Tiger Woods jokes.

  Take a hard game, and make it shorterswyx.io

Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.

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  From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

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  Few will deeply read as many works of literature across the Western canon as Barzun did, given his exceptionally long career in academia, but From Dawn to Decadence grants the humble reader an extraordinary vantage, thanks to Barzun’s vast corpus of knowledge and his perspicacious observations about cultural currents across half a millennium.

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Co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management; author of the Oaktree memos.

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  Nobody can yet know whether the current enthusiasm for AI is excessive, so anyone claiming conviction about how it resolves is overreaching.

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  Given the vast potential of AI but also the large number of enormous unknowns, I think virtually no one can say for sure.

  Is It a Bubble?oaktreecapital.com

Palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London; studies dinosaur behaviour and writes about what the fossil record can and cannot tell us.

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  Almost all real predation is on prey far smaller than the predator, so the documentary staple of a T. rex taking an adult Triceratops shows the rare exception, not the rule.

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  These are weird and rare outcomes. These don't usually happen. The vast majority of active predation is on stuff much, much, much smaller than you.

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Historian of the Second World War; wrote Normandy '44 and Brothers in Arms, and co-hosts the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast.

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  On the scale of Barbarossa the operational level of war decides everything: it does not matter how good your commanders at the front are if the backup is not there.

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  So when you’re talking about Operation Barbarossa, to go back to your original question, Lex, you’re dealing with an operation on such a vast scale, that that operational level of war is absolutely vital to its chances of success or failure. It doesn’t matter how good your individual commanders are at the front. If you haven’t got the backup, it’s not going to work.

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Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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  Concurrency should stop being the programmer's problem and become the language designer's: it is better to impose vast pain on a few people than on a million.

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  And by doing this, removing this from being a programming problem for the programmer to deal with, to being a language problem for us language designers to deal with. And we're moving a vast amount of pain that would be imposed on a million people, instead to a vast amount of pain imposed on a small number of people to have to actually make this work.

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Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.

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  Understanding Comics

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  The pedagogical potential of the comic form is vast and mostly untapped.

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Archaeologist of the Maya and the ancient Americas; directs the Maya Exploration Center and presents the ArchaeoEd podcast.

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  Civilization is triggered by humans learning to stay in one place, not by anything they invented there.

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  For the vast majority of human existence, we’ve been nomadic and we’ve done these wider or tighter nomadic circles, depending on the geographic region, but they’d move. So once humans figured out how to stay in a place, that’s the initial trigger to what would become civilization.

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Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.

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  Almost every one-to-one Telegram chat, and every group chat, is readable on Telegram’s own servers.

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  The practical impact is that the vast majority of one-on-one Telegram conversations — and literally every single group chat — are probably visible on Telegram’s servers, which can see and record the content of all messages sent between users.

  Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.com

Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.

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  Individual investors analysed Tesla better than the professional investors and analysts did.

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  Actually individual investors did a much better job analyzing Tesla than the so-called professional investors or analysts, the vast majority of them.

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Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.

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  A romantic, low-yield farming system would need far more land and would produce more hunger, not less.

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  But it leads, if enacted, to hunger, ecological destruction or both, on a vast scale. Our arcadian fantasies devour the planet.

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Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping the Housing Trap, and policy director at the Parking Reform Network. Wrote for Strong Towns from 2015, mostly about how housing markets actually set prices.

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  Affordability will be decided by what happens to the price of the homes that already exist, not by how many new ones get built.

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  Affordability for the masses will live or die not by what we build this year or next, but by what happens to the price of homes that already exist, in which the vast majority of people live.

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