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21 September
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
War is erasing history *Ukrainian cathedrals, Gaza’s archives, Iranian squares — modern war is systematically erasing human history [in places which are bombarded].* Israel's bombardment of Gaza has destroyed many centuries-old building…
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18 September
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
I'm now on attempt number four to set up my new iPhone. I got pretty far on the last run! It ended when I accidentally pressed the Camera Control on my old phone, which immediately aborts the setup/transfer process. Of course it does! So sensible. Now waiting for the third erase of the new phone to finish… Related
17 September
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
I'm getting Clanker psychosis trying to figure out how to create a sensible API around Jev like models. Related
14 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
13 September
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
In the near term (definitely not in the long term), more capable models should mean safer models (maybe paradoxically). Current models are unsafe not because they're too smart, but because they take goals too literally or take nonsensical shortcuts to achieve these goals, i.e. they're RL-fried. They lack common sense. They don't do the right thing in the face of ambiguity. Basically, they're not smart enough. They're at that dangerous level where they're smart enough to achieve goals but not smart enough to tell if they're pursuing the right goals or achieving them in a sensible way. More cap… Related
12 September
Canadian cartoonist and writer: Dinosaur Comics, Marvel's The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and the choose-your-own-path books To Be or Not To Be and Romeo and/or Juliet.
Hey everyone, how do we feel about portents and omens? They're not real, right? Like they can be safely ignored, even hubristically scoffed at and mocked, yeah? Related
28 July
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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7 June
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.
11 April
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
16 September 2025
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
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The value of research is usually in telling you which of two plausible theories is true, or which advice from different, seemingly sensible approaches works best.
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6 June 2025
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
4 December 2024
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
12 April 2024
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
6 April 2024
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
27 January 2023
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
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