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Viruses face an inherent trade-off between being highly lethal and being highly contagious, rarely achieving both.Their words
They face a fundamental biological trade-off: highly lethal or highly contagious, but typically not both.
What AI can and cannot do in biosecurityyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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A cabin in literature typically serves as an escape from trouble or a place where new trouble is found.Their words
The cabin is a classic literary setting. It's the getaway spot where characters can flee to escape their troubles or journey to in order to find new ones.
Processing: How Josh Riedel Edited Thirty Cabinscountercraft.substack.com
19 August
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Modern TimesTheir words
I’ve loved it since I was a teenager, but professional historians typically rolled their eyes in disdain when I mentioned it.
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electrification in Germany is usually bundled with other projects that end up costing that in total
Electrification Costs and Confounderspedestrianobservations.com
15 July
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PE funds optimize for a 4-7 flip and typically resort to aggressive cost-cutting and near-term optimization at the cost of the "soul" of the business or what made it successful in the first place.
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El Niño events typically peak near the end of the calendar year, between November and January.Their words
El Niño almost always peaks near the end of the calendar year - typically between November and January, occasionally as early as October
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Now, it can also make your memory worse because you're realizing I want to I'm taking this photo so I don't need to remember it later. And so, you could see it going both ways, but that selection process is important.
4 June
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Which of those two people are going to reproduce, find a mate, all of these sorts of things? I think the answer is kind of clear, right? It's the second one that has the preference for other people.
8 May
From one piece David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farming 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In fact, multiple analyses we do suggest that the genome is vibrating with natural selection, and uh there's all sorts of weaker effects that are there that would be picked up in larger studies even than we've done. Uh and that uh in fact, almost every position in the DNA is uh correlated to a position that in being dragged in one way or the other uh by natural selection. Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere.
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So we're talking about strong measurable selection coefficients on the order of half a percent or more in this study and all of those are going to work in small populations or large populations. It's not going to be affected by the population size.
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It may still be the case, and I guess it is, that immune traits are the most selected category, but is not at all the case, and in fact, we can prove it's not the case that behavioral traits are not selected.
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But I think it's highly likely that if natural selection was pushed pushed any of these traits in more in one direction than it is, the mean would move.
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And really from a statistical point of view, what happens at these times of migration is there's just huge fluctuations in frequencies, and these are extremely uninformative times for looking and detecting natural selection.
25 April
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The world is shaped by how consistently incompetent governance is, and competent governance would remake itTheir words
As an econ professor who specialized in governance, I can assure you that the world is greatly structured by the fact that we typically have pretty incompetent governance.
7 April
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and in some sense Darwin's genius wasn't in having that idea. It was understanding just how central it was uh to to to biology.
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World OrderTheir words
Many of the indicators I use to track unfolding events are explained in Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order. I especially recommend Chapter 6, “The Big Cycle of External Order and Disorder,” and, if you are interested in the unimaginable-in-peacetime investment-related developments that typically happen during wars, I recommend Chapter 7, “Investing in Light of the Big Cycle.”
12 March
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But if you know anything about my obsession with selection bias, you can predict the outcome: when you expand access from a population that excludes more students to one that excludes fewer, you’re very likely to see declining performance.
11 March
27 February
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and then as things hit invisible asymptotes those same loud voices who write viral essays have curiously moved on to other things.
18 February
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The world may be complex, but complex systems are typically controlled by a small number of highly stable invariants.
29 January
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No Country for Old MenTheir words
The Coens are typically considered to be at their best when they're cruel diagnosticians of American life - see their portentous, overstuffed, painfully self-impressed No Country for Old Men
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Public scrutiny of a new technology tends to jump only after a deadly incident, otherwise rising slowly over decadesTheir words
Scrutiny typically either jumps several points on any 10-point scale after an incident that kills a bunch of people, or increases very slowly over decades.
1 January
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the cost of your good habits is in the present. The cost of your bad habits is in the future. And so what you find is that a lot of things that typically get categorized as a bad habit, eating too many donuts or smoking a cigarette or something like that feels good in the moment, but it creates some kind of cost or consequence in the future.
19 December 2025
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LLM intelligence should not be understood through an animal analogy; it is a different kind of entity altogetherTheir words
2025 is where I (and I think the rest of the industry also) first started to internalize the "shape" of LLM intelligence in a more intuitive sense. We're not "evolving/growing animals", we are "summoning ghosts".
12 December 2025
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Spirituality is a real part of human nature and central to flourishing, whether or not God exists.Their words
I approach spirituality as a social scientist who believes that whether or not God exists, spirituality is a deep part of human nature, shaped by natural selection and cultural evolution, and central to human flourishing and self-transcendence.
25 November 2025
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I think for example our intuitive feeling of hunger is not succeeding in guiding us correctly in this world with an abundance of food.
21 November 2025
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GoldTheir words
Gold by Rumi and Haleh Liza Gafori. Poetry, 112 pages. A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking new translations by Haleh Liza Gafori, an American poet of Persian descent. Read 1–2 poems before bed each night and thank me later.
5 October 2025
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I think if you have especially a B2B feature where you may have some lock in reverse trials can be super powerful. You just want to get people in there. You don't need to ask for their credit card because they're using your CRM or they're investing quite a lot of time in like building out, you know, material and content. And so by the time that window drops, you actually like feel, oh man, I probably should keep this and and start paying. I think for a lot of consumer products, it's a little bit harder for that to work. And so I've typically seen more just normal free trials be be the norm.
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That’s how educational miracles are manufactured: through artificially creating selection bias, which is the most powerful force in education.
There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com
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You're dominant in contests, particularly with conspecifics. If you're trying to win a territory or win mating rights, bigger things usually beat up smaller things. So there's going to be selection favoring them. But then big things don't usually do well in extinction events, so that tends to reset the clock by killing off the big stuff, and then smaller stuff does better again.
18 August 2025
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When new technologies come out, this pendulum swings from best of platform towards best of breed. And the reason for that is incumbents typically aren't that great at these new technologies.
3 August 2025
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A new performance team can likely find enough optimizations to halve infrastructure spend in their first couple of years, even for companies that have been using commercial performance or observability tools.
23 July 2025
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But it seems like you can understand it through passive observation, which is pretty surprising to me. And again, I think hints at something underlying about the nature of reality in my opinion, beyond just the cool videos that it generates.
15 July 2025
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As a result, natural selection is very unlikely to have produced in humans any predisposition or preference for a certain number of births.
There Is No Long Decline in Fertilitylymanstone.substack.com
16 June 2025
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Shoulder generation (in late summer) of any given year is generally a higher share of global electricity demand than the peak generation (spring) of the year prior.
3 June 2025
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It actually means that to make it easier for users to transition from something they were used to — in this case, phones typically being slabs with a grid of buttons on them — to what things had become — phones were all-screen, so they could show any kind of button or interface imaginable.
19 April 2025
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People who can be trusted to make something inevitable are really rare, and are typically the bottleneck for how many different things a team or company can do at once.
15 April 2025
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So a lot of the problem is mere herding: If every other top engineering program is using the GRE, it’s too weird to require a different test even if the alternative test is a far superior selection mechanism.
22 March 2025
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There's a point in which all of your choices add up. And I typically find that right around 5 to 10,000 lines of code. The choices you've made either weigh you down or kind of free you up.
2 February 2025
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Each and every time, it took at most a few years but typically months before other companies would achieve the same level of performance using a broadly similar, and always relatively simple, recipe.
21 July 2024
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The bar I typically suggest is that the people manager doesn't need to have the most technical depth on the team, but they need enough depth that they can follow most discussions without slowing them down, understand who's correct in most debates without needing to rely on trust, and generally stay oriented easily.
13 June 2024
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It’s the fact that you’re a deterministic structure living in a random background. And also, all of that selection bundled in you allows you to select on possible futures. So that’s where your will comes from.
18 April 2024
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The optimal scenario is typically when the generators supply 1% of yearly electricity (shown below).
How to Make Off Grid Data Centers Affordableaustinvernon.site
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Breakthroughs achieved with massive compute are typically achieved using it inefficiently.Their words
while massive compute often achieves breakthrough results, its usage is often inefficient.
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Interest rates have little effect on investment, and central banks have limited control over real interest rates.Their words
In the actual data, interest rates don’t seem to drive investment that much, and furthermore central bank influence over the real rate of interest typically is limited.
10 June 2023
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It's not that looks and status don't matter, it's that focusing on looks and status as one's dating strategy is perfectly pointless.
25 July 2022
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In my opinion the root cause of this bug is that when a white american developer sees a terminal they immediately interpret it as this idealized cartesian plane where they can lay out any writing they want in neatly-spaced characters that behave in "predictable" ways (in other words, behave exactly like English).
8 July 2022
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The drone-like architecture of the multicopters is simple, but as the rotors are responsible for keeping the unit at a constant altitude with hover power, they represent an energy-intensive version of VTOLs. Their range is, therefore, short, typically less than 20 miles.
20 October 2021
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FaunaTheir words
I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.
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DynamoDBTheir words
I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.
1 March 2021
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Barking Up the Wrong TreeTheir words
A fun romp through a lot of counter-intuitive studies and data on success , happiness , relationships , etc.
28 October 2020
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Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design ProcessTheir words
I've never read a book before that captures the journey of going from meh to amazing when building a product. This book does it. Part Apple / Steve Jobs pron, part memoir, and part product insights, this book is a great read on how the iPhone came to be and how they solved really hard problems. For anyone that remarks "Apple isn't what it used to be," this book helps you see what made the difference then.
4 June 2020
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Plague receded from Europe through fourteen generations of natural selection, not through any advance in medicine.Their words
when plague finally diminished in Europe, not because of any advance in medicine, but because fourteen generations of exposure gave natural selection time to work
13 December 2019
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Cascade Mountain Tech Quick Lock PolesTheir words
For most backpackers, I typically recommend the Cascade Mountain Tech Quick Lock Poles (my review), which offer 75 percent of the performance for one-sixth the price;
15 October 2019
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Microsoft WordTheir words
When I'm writing articles etc that need to be shared with an editor, I typically write in Microsoft Word. I hate all word processing software, and anyone who insists that Google Docs is so much better than Word is a liar.
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For me, a good prototype expresses a single idea or tests a single hypothesis, so a prototype is actually a great container for a creative prompt, which typically takes the form of a single encapsulated concept or provocation.
1 January 2016
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Naked StatisticsTheir words
The book’s stated goal is to convey an intuitive (as in: very little math) understanding of statistics, and I think it succeeds at that. It shows both the awesome power of statistics (for research, science, predictions) and the dangers of its misuse.
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An optimizer's hyper-parameters should mean something a practitioner can reason about, and should rarely need tuning.Their words
The hyper-parameters have intuitive interpretations and typically require little tuning.
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An optimizer's hyper-parameters should mean something a practitioner can reason about, and should rarely need tuning.Their words
The hyper-parameters have intuitive interpretations and typically require little tuning.
3 April 2014
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Garmin Forerunner 610Their words
If you're going to run no more than 5-6 hours (like a marathon), I'd recommend the Garmin Forerunner 610. It has an intuitive interface and touch screen.
2 July 2012
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Apogee Duet 2Their words
I'm typically listening to KRK Rokit G2 monitors sourced from the fantastic Apogee Duet 2 DAC.
15 April 2010
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing CodeTheir words
and there aren't many books like it. None, maybe. They don't typically teach you how to write good code in school, and you may never learn on the job.
1 January 2009
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