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20 September
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Academic publishing functions mainly to sort people for jobs rather than to produce useful knowledge.Their words
The purpose of the academic output is to sort people out for jobs.
17 September
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Any piece of software that depends on open source (which is almost every piece of software) has a network of human beings who are potential attack vectors - everyone with publishing rights to any of the packages in the dependency network for that software.
15 September
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Publishing industry claims to predict how trends will play out, but such predictions are unreliable.Their words
Publishers want to have people believe they know exactly how and when things will shake out, but you just never know.
Processing: How Nicholas Russell Wrote Observercountercraft.substack.com
14 September
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4 September
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cuz we don't yet have a a frontier foundation model that's robust enough for for uh robotics.
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An account of an AI win is not worth publishing unless it is coupled with what that win cost.Their words
It's like we need to hear the wins. We need to hear what's We need to hear about what's possible. We need to hear what's exciting. But you got to couple it with the costs.
11 August
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I think that if you imagine this spectrum, it seems in some ways pretty scary to get to a point where like all of the labor is on the like fiduciary side of the spectrum where like it doesn't whistleblow, it does exactly what you say and whatever like our society is maybe just not robust to that
10 August
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And most of them really sent reports that their agent produced without actually even testing it. I would I would take a stronger sense of explaining what are the parts that we guarantee and what are the parts that will not be fixed because that that's not our security boundary.
9 August
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korrents.com
The ethical failure in using AI to write is publishing unread, unowned work, not using the tool itself.Their words
The transgression isn't using the machine. It's hitting a button, not reading what comes back, and publishing it under your name.
8 August
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Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman EmpireTheir words
A very good and aggressively readable book about how terrible slavery was in the Roman Empire.
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korrents.com
The US warming trend since 1970 is consistent across raw, adjusted, satellite, and surface temperature datasetsTheir words
The overall US warming trend (around 0.5F per decade since 1970 in max, min, and mean temperatures) is robust in every dataset, raw or adjusted, satellite or surface.
18 June
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And you have to have a robust and resilient supply chain. You cannot just depend on one or two player in different geographical. And so, I think, you know, the more and more people going to realize making in United States is critical.
9 June
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korrents.com
Publishing what you know about a field draws the people working in it toward you, so writing becomes a calling card.Their words
in the venture world, for the founder that doesn't know you, when they see your knowledge on a subject or they see what you're talking about in their own business, they reach out to you. So, it becomes a calling card.
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13 May
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You know, there's open source and there's open development. And and and we were technically open source in the beginning, but it was not open development. We would sort of lob the source code out in this repository and scrape the issues off of that and put it into our internal issue tracker.
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korrents.com
Publishing only on your own site, and making people come to it, is the considerate way to share your work.On changing their mind
I was acting like the record producer in New Jersey, making everyone come to my website. It was inconsiderate.
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25 January
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my attitude was was always I will only put out stuff if if it's the best that I can do. It's up to the reader to decide if it's good or useful. Um, and if so, if I don't have that, I'm just not going to publish.
1 January
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Number Go UpTheir words
I didn't read much non-fiction this year, but the best of what I did read was Zeke Faux's Number Go Up about the cryptocurrency bubble. This book will not change anyone's mind, but it's a readable and entertaining summary of some of the more obvious cryptocurrency scams. I also had enough quibbles with it to write an extended review, which is a compliment of sorts.
26 December 2025
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A Little History of the WorldTheir words
This was probably my favorite book of the year. Gombrich wrote it in six weeks at age 26, aiming to explain world history to children. The result is remarkably readable.
22 December 2025
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A very good and readable book on this interaction, with excellent discussions of Donna Summer, Stevie Wonder, La Monte Young, and Penderecki, among many others.
21 December 2025
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Our Dollar, Your ProblemTheir words
This book manages to pull all of that together in a way that's genuinely readable and engaging, helped along by anecdotes from his own policymaking experience that both clarify the arguments and make them feel concrete and accessible to a much broader audience.
25 November 2025
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They have a general sense which is also by the way extremely robust in people like whatever it is the human value function whatever the human value function is with a few exceptions around addiction it's actually very very robust
11 November 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Letters From an Imaginary CountryTheir words
Theodora Goss's latest book of short stories is 'Letters From an Imaginary Country,' and it manages to be one of the most voraciously, delightfully readable books I've ever read and it's one of the most writerly books, too. What a treat!
8 September 2025
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What we need, ultimately, is a return to a holistic, humanistic vision of what school is for, and we need a robust social safety net to protect those who are not lucky enough to be naturally academically talented.
17 July 2025
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We expect that building and evaluating AI systems capable of this kind of rapid world model induction will be critical for achieving robust, general AI capable of functioning effectively in the complex and fast-changing real world, and especially in human worlds - the environments that human beings have evolved in, created, and are continually changing and re-creating.
25 June 2025
5 June 2025
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korrents.com
The next big wave of AI-assisted engineering unlocks when agentic capabilities become robust.Their words
The big unlock will be as we make the agentic capabilities much more robust, right? I think that's what unlocks that next big wave.
30 April 2025
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Iliad: A New TranslationTheir words
It's very readable, and captures a sense of what is, fundamentally, a very alien, and often ugly, story in a very alien, and often ugly, world, related in magnificent language.
9 March 2025
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I'm hopeful this framework will turn out to be a much more robust style for writing performance-sensitive code, especially over time and as compilers evolve.
6 January 2025
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So I foresee a world with far more specialized code, with fewer generalized packages, and more readable tests.
30 September 2024
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korrents.com
Maya hieroglyphs must have been readable across several spoken languages, the way Chinese characters or Latin were.Their words
There must have been a way that multiple languages understood the same writing system. Or maybe there was something like Latin. You know how there was a period in Europe where most people were illiterate and there was this priesthood who all understood Latin and they wrote in Latin? Maybe the hieroglyphs represent a kind of Latin in the ancient Maya world.
27 September 2024
From one piece POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think federation is the long-term solution to these problems. Eventually, I dream we will be able to seamlessly interact with people across platforms.
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Next to proper ownership of your own work, my favorite thing about POSSE is that it massively expands what you can publish, far beyond the limitations imposed by most social media (and especially microblogging) platforms that try to enforce some uniformity in post style, length, and appearance.
25 August 2024
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korrents.com
Almost every one-to-one Telegram chat, and every group chat, is readable on Telegram’s own servers.Their words
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
15 June 2024
3 December 2023
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It’s one of the many factors I think that went into the fact that the Large Hadron Collider became the only machine in town, and the Superconducting Supercollider would’ve just been a much… If it had really had achieved what it was supposed to, would’ve been a much more robust test of the space.
3 October 2023
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It seems to me that an attractive robust approach is to have governments pay lots for kids (at no cost or risk to them!) and then let those who respond to these incentives tell us which compromises seem most attractive.
13 July 2023
29 June 2023
From one piece George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think we’re going to build super intelligence before we build any sort of robustness in the AI. We cannot build an AI that is capable of going out into nature and surviving like a bird. A bird is an incredibly robust organism. We’ve built nothing like this. We haven’t built a machine that’s capable of reproducing.
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Just dumping the code on GitHub is not open source. Open source is a culture. Open source means that your issues are not all one year old, stale issues. Open source means developing in public.
31 March 2023
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Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India about A.D. 1030Their words
It's mostly readable, though there are quite a few places where the translator calls for more research and this reprint, naturally, doesn't say whether it's been followed up *. In any event, I found this fascinating.
17 January 2023
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The Linux Programming InterfaceTheir words
The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk – an exhaustive reference on how Linux works. There are about a million chapters, but every individual chapter is pretty short and I find it quite readable.
10 December 2022
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Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant SuccessTheir words
Absolutely. It is incredibly enjoyable and readable. The authors, in a way that is very rare for economists, find small stories that paint big pictures for the points they make.
2 March 2022
From one piece Write plain text files 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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That's why I only use plain text files. They are the most reliable, flexible, and long-lasting option.
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korrents.com
Plain text is the only format guaranteed to be readable on devices that do not exist yet.Their words
Every device, including ones long gone, and ones not invented yet, can read and edit plain text.
8 December 2021
11 May 2021
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korrents.com
Publishing a standing list of your own mistakes, and correcting them, is part of doing science honestly.Their words
I make mistakes, and acknowledging and correcting them is an important part of how I grow.
28 October 2020
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The Startup Owner's ManualTheir words
This is Steve Blank's textbook to starting a company. It's the Four Steps to the Epiphany, expanded and much more readable. If you want to deep dive into the Lean methodology, this is the book to read.
1 March 2020
9 April 2019
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How to Read LacanTheir words
Despite being very readable, this book never really came together.
9 August 2018
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The Art of Readable CodeTheir words
What I liked about this book is that it gives you a series of techniques to make that smell go away.
1 March 2017
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Using this approach, we estimate large and robust negative effects of robots on employment and wages across commuting zones.
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Using this approach, we estimate large and robust negative effects of robots on employment and wages across commuting zones.
22 December 2016
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ReedsyTheir words
Reedsy - after trying iBooks Author and Pressbooks to write my books, I've finally settled on Reedsy for writing, layout, and publishing of ebooks.
1 October 2016
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