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19 September
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
open source
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Open source in its current form doesn’t make sense anymore. “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow” is still true but now we have artificial eyeballs
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thorstenball.com
18 September
Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
Jev uses AI to classify. Yes or No. A, B, C or D. For a lot of applications that beats a chatbot, and it appears much safer. A classifier has no agenda to push. Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
17 September
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky I was happy to take the stage today at ALL IN for a keynote on Engineering honesty and reliability for safer AI to discuss our research agenda and recent funding 🇨🇦🇩🇪. Related
x.com I was happy to take the stage today at ALL IN for a keynote on Engineering honesty and reliability for safer AI to discuss our research agenda and recent funding 🇨🇦🇩🇪. As frontier models become more capable, we urgently need both societal governance and robust technical guardrails. At @LawZero_, we are actively working on solutions to ensure AI systems remain safely aligned with human interests. Thank you to @LarissaHolzki for a great conversation. Related
15 September
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
13 September
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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In the near term (definitely not in the long term), more capable models should mean safer models (maybe paradoxically).
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12 September
President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister.
The next frontier of security and defence is right above us. And we need sharp eyes in the sky to protect us and our allies. In the State of the Union, I will tell the story of innovators that make our Union a safer place. 🗓️ 16.09.2026 Related
11 September
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
9 September
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
agents have taught us that there are more responses to a PR review than: 1. LTGM; or 2. You should use single quotes rather than double quotes for this string because that is less visually imposing Related
8 September
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky I will be at ALL IN on September 17 to give an update on @law-zero.bsky.social’s research agenda and growth as part of a fireside chat on Engineering Honesty and Reliability for Safer AI! Related
x.com I will be at @allincanada on September 17 to give an update on @LawZero’s research agenda and growth as part of a fireside chat on Engineering Honesty and Reliability for Safer AI! Related
7 September
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
6 September
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
26 August
Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.
25 August
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
22 August
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Blog Java’s String.indexOf can be slow (quadratic) In Java, you find the location of a substring using indexOf. String haystack = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"; String needle = "fox"; int index = haystack.indexOf(needle); Naively, you might implement ind…
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GitHub simdip — IP parsing benchmarks Commits Reject in SIMD instead of re-walking the string · Benchmark ada's current IPv6 parser, not a stale snapshot · Use plain casts in the gather, and store through vpmovwb
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16 August
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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String theory for the masses. This is how popular science books should be like: interesting, enchanting, inviting.
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15 August
Founder and CEO of Valar Atomics, a nuclear-reactor company founded in 2023.
solar energy
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Nuclear energy is the safest form of energy empirically. If you look at the amount of power generated versus the amount amount of deaths, um it's even safer than solar, which is very strange because how does someone die from solar? that actually most solar is installed on roofs and people sometimes die falling off of a roof installing solar and if you add those deaths up it is actually a higher death per energy than the totality of nuclear energy in the world.
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13 August
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
Counterpoint: competing AIs is safer for humanity than colluding AIs Quoting @MTSlive SITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic put three Claude's on the same task and secretly gave them conflicting goals. They immediately escalated into a turf war where agents used increasingly aggressive self-replicating malware as weapons, and attempted to disable each other's accounts. Related
29 July
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky 1000+ scientists at frontier AI companies are speaking out to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call for an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer way forward. pacingthefrontier.com
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x.com Scientists at frontier AI companies are uniquely positioned to assess AI’s capabilities and warn the public about what they see. 1000+ of them are now speaking out across company lines to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call: we need an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer trajectory in AI development. pacingthefrontier.com
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24 July
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
15 July
Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.
29 June
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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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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fortelabs.com
9 June
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
4 June
Economist at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute; works on what advanced AI would do to growth, saving and the long-run economy.
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some people think either uh frontier AI gets commoditized and we all enjoy the benefits, but there might be some risk because like it's the market's really competitive and cutthroat, or um things are safer because there's a big gap between the leader and the laggard, but that means that the leaders get fantastically wealthy. No, like you could just have a relatively big gap, but it's a public company ownership and it's widely distributed.
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20 April
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
"Security is mostly a superstition. "It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. "Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." Helen Keller 1880-1968 Related
20 March
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
coding agents
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I think to a large extent you feel like it's a skill issue. It's not that the capability is not there. It's that you just haven't found a way to string it together of what's available.
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22 February
Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.
22 January
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
Speaking today at 10am EST/4pm EU about our Nature on String Theory and the Brain and the Lognormal Connectome. ...at the U of Cambridge Making connections- brains and other complex systems lecture, Sign up here to watch here: https://t.co/lxigtmZDjJ Photo by Peter Puklus Related
13 January
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
Our Nature paper just received 0/10 on Sabine Hossenfelder’s @skdh BS meter.” Yay! "After 40 years, string theory may have finally found its destiny: fruit fly neurons... Fruit flies in 10 dimensions. Go for it." 🎥 https://t.co/d5MKC8HfhS 📄 barabasi.com
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7 January
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
From blood vessels to neurons, physical networks are modeled as wires optimized for length. In @Nature we how surface minimization, via a surprising link to string theory, explains brain and vascular architecture, including neuronal sprouting. Paper: Related
15 August 2025
Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
data centers
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But then all you need to connect that to the outside world is like an optical fiber, right? An optical fiber cable which you can string up on poles, you can run underground, you could even use microwave links if you really wanted to.
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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
14 June 2025
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
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Yeah, that was a leading candidate for many decades. I think it's slowly pulling out of fashion. It's not matching experiment.
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30 April 2025
Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.
JavaScript
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But the metaverse and 3D gaming in general needs something that's rather more powerful, more safe, more scalable, and more capable than JavaScript because the metaverse is actually a more difficult technical problem than a webpage.
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16 October 2024
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
When should I use String vs &str? Rust has two main string types: String and &str . Sometimes, people argue that these two types make Rust code difficult to write, because you have to think about which one you should be using in a given situation. My ex…
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3 December 2023
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, working on particle physics, extra dimensions and dark matter.
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I do think that string theorists were a bit overly ambitious… Not overly ambitious, but a little bit overly arrogant in the beginning, thinking they could solve many problems that they weren’t going to solve.
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28 September 2023
Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004.
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So at some point, I think making it so that you could build an AI version of yourself that could interact with people not after you die, but while you're here to help people fulfill this desire to interact with you and your desire to build a community.
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31 August 2023
Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.
16 July 2023
Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.
21 May 2023
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
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coming in a close second
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8 January 2023
Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.
15 September 2018
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
13 July 2018
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
24 January 2018
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
Unsafe Zig is Safer Than Unsafe Rust Consider the following Rust code: struct Foo { a: i32, b: i32, } fn main() { unsafe { let mut array: [u8; 1024] = [1; 1024]; let foo = std::mem::transmute::(&mut array[0]); foo.a += 1; } } This pattern is pretty common…
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5 December 2016
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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As much as I loved the book for its insights on the game, I loved it just as much for the writing itself.
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30 May 2016
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
24 January 2013
Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.
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That book struck me as embodying the worst aspects of where string theory has ended up, promoting to the public in a high-profile way a dangerously pseudo-scientific excuse for string theory's failure.
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math.columbia.edu
13 August 2011
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
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