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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

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  Attribute behavior that depends on CSS layout size rather than an element's natural or declared size is a design trap web authors should avoid relying on.

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  Basically, what I'm saying is, don't use ismap unless you're absolutely sure that there will be no CSS shenanigans. Even then, it probably isn't worth the risk.

  Esoteric HTML - ismap vs CSSshkspr.mobi

Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  AGI should not be declared until AI is capable of invention, including conceptual breakthroughs, novel insights, and new real-world technology.

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  So I would not "declare AGI" until we have AI that is, at last, capable of invention -- conceptual breakthroughs, novel insights, new real-world technology, etc.

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Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.

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  In a midterm year, a new poll in one state affects perceptions of that state's race but not the national political environment.

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  A new poll in Michigan or Maine or South Carolina or Alaska pretty much affects that state and that state only.

  Beware big swings in midterm forecastsnatesilver.net

Emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London; wrote Strategy: A History and Command, and writes about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as they happen.

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  Enemy manipulation of a whole society's information environment is unlikely ever to be decisive in a war, because shaping another society's perceptions is genuinely hard.

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  This is not to be complacent about the risks, but it is to urge caution when assuming that shifting the perceptions of other societies will ever be straightforward.

  AI and the New Fog of Warsamf.substack.com

Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Hype is weather: you can see it coming and you cannot control it, which is why a project can be declared dead and hit its highest ever downloads at the same time.

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  Both of those are true at the same time. A hype is like the weather. You might see it coming, but you can't control it.

  Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"youtube.com

Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  Creators of enduring, influential objects can still end up completely forgotten

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  I realized that some people who influenced and created objects that lasted for decades will be forgotten no matter what.

  Books I Read in 2025arslan.io

Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.

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  Datawrapper

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  I instead use Datawrapper to create interactive charts very quickly. They follow great data visualization principles, have influenced my work, and their styles look great.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  The Last God

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  Mind candy, comic book fantasy heavily influenced by D & D.

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Former NASA flight director and space shuttle programme manager; writes about how the shuttle was actually flown and what went wrong.

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  A declared root cause is a best guess, not a fact, and should be treated with suspicion.

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  Always take the determination of ‘root cause’ with a grain of salt.

  Flight Rationalewaynehale.wordpress.com

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  Advertising was a necessary phase for the internet but a momentary industry, and an AI people pay for is better because they know the answers are not influenced by advertisers.

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  I kind of hate ads just as an aesthetic choice. I think ads needed to happen on the internet for a bunch of reasons, to get it going, but it’s a momentary industry. The world is richer now. I like that people pay for ChatGPT and know that the answers they’re getting are not influenced by advertisers.

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Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  Not the End of the World

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  His life and work have influenced my own tremendously—and just a few pages into Ritchie’s essential and hopeful new book, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, it became clear that she was carrying on his tremendous legacy.

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Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

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  The probability of a self-fulfilling bad equilibrium in sovereign debt markets depends little on the debt level itself, but is much reduced by a rule linking the primary balance to debt service increases.

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  I have argued that the probability of a bad equilibrium is only marginally influenced by the level of debt, but can be much reduced by a contingent rule making the primary balance react to an increase in debt service.

  Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Ratesdirect.mit.edu

Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.

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  Labyrinths

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  I was most influenced by the essays in the book, and I ended up being attracted to the same sort of writers as Borges, mostly Anglo-American writers of 1820-1920.

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Journalist and author of Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. Writes the newsletter Culture Study, which runs a recurring links-and-recommendations issue.

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  Brooklinen sheets

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  Instagram-influenced purchase I regret most: Brooklinen sheets

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  The Sidestroke

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  Instagram-influenced purchase I regret not at all: The Summersalt Sidestroke

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