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Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  Foundation is really about individuals with extreme agency and puzzle-solving ability having outsized impact on a universe that would otherwise decay

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  foundation is ostensibly a sci-fi series about empires, psychohistory, and hard technology, but really it's about individuals with extreme agency and puzzle-solving ability having wildly outsized impact on a universe that would otherwise just sit there waiting to decay

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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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  A sports model that shows profound, systematic differences from Vegas is probably doing something wrong.

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  But if your model shows profound, systematic differences from Vegas, it’s probably doing something wrong.

  Inside ELWAY’s 2026 NFL forecastnatesilver.net

Gear reviewer who publishes long-form hi-fi audio and camera equipment reviews, plus video reviews, at stevehuffphoto.com.

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  A revised version of an established product is usually just different from the original, not actually better.

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  Many companies take a perfectly great speaker and every year or two release a "V2" with claims of big improvements. Usually it's just differences rather than being better.

  My Fave Speakers Ever and Why. Fleetwood Helios.stevehuffphoto.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Liberals and conservatives should work together, and that is easier when colleagues leave their political differences out of it.

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  So I actually think liberals and conservatives should work together. I think the country would be much worse off if there's a complete separation between the tribes, and then there can't be any overlap or interaction. And I think that mingling is so much easier to do if you just don't focus on your differences all the time. Focus on what you like together.

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Gear reviewer who publishes long-form hi-fi audio and camera equipment reviews, plus video reviews, at stevehuffphoto.com.

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  The source component (streamer or DAC) affects a system's sound more than the amplifier does.

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  the source is so important and for me makes a much larger difference than an amp will bring.

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Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.

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  The same global average temperature can arise from greenhouse warming or from El Niño and still produce very different regional climate impacts.

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  The catch is that the future world that has been warmed by greenhouse gases and a present-day world that has been temporarily warmed by El Niño can have the same global-average temperature while having significant differences in the impacts of this warming.

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Claude Haiku hallucinates badly enough that its use inside Claude Code's WebFetch tool is a hallucination risk on every fetched URL.

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  Claude Haiku is my current least favorite model - it hallucinates wildly, and is out-performed now by other similarly priced models like GPT-5.6-Luna Even worse: it seems to still be used by the Claude Code WebFetch tool, which means hallucination risk any time you fetch a URL!

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Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.

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  Whatever a state thinks it will gain by sending soldiers is inferior to what it would have got from sending diplomats and lawyers.

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  And their idea is we must hash out our different differences with diplomats and lawyers cuz when you send the soldiers in, it is uh whatever gains you think you're going going to get are going to be inferior to what you would have done with the diplomats.

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Inventing the Renaissance

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  Ada Palmer may just be the most bewilderingly talented person I know: a genius sf writer, incredible librettist and singer, wildly innovative educator, and a leading historian of the Renaissance, and last year, she published her magnum opus, Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning book about so much more than history

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Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.

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  Higher male global TB burden may be in large part due to population-scale factors such as employment, social contacts and health-seeking behaviours.

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  The main reasons for males suffering from a higher burden of global TB cases, compared to females, may be in large part due to population-scale factors, such as employment type, the quantity and type of social contacts they make, and their health-seeking behaviours (e.g. differences in diagnostic and treatment delays between genders).

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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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  A History of Immunology

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  I loved this book. I enjoyed learning about the early, often wildly speculative theories of immunity, how blood groups and allergies were discovered

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Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.

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  Good Hang with Amy Poehler

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  Good Hang with Amy Poehler: I think this is a wildly popular one now for a reason, it's very fun and I just love how it's chill and mostly comedians hanging out.

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  No project run by a manager who privately thinks it is a bad idea has ever turned out wildly successful.

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  I can tell you right now, every single manager I've ever managed where they're like, I don't really think this is a good idea. The there's no case where I can think of where the project somehow turned out to be like wildly successful.

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

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  China's stronger local-level state capacity than India's helps explain their diverging long-run economic performance.

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  On this measure, state capacity at the local level looks much stronger in China than in India, which helps explain some of the long-running economic differences between them.

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Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.

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  Comparing a poor country’s GDP with South Korea’s at independence is a shallow argument that hides the differences that actually decided the outcome.

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  Having fallen into the East Asia - Africa Trap before, I can tell you precisely why so many people make this mistake.

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

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  Passing ARC-AGI does not amount to achieving AGI: o3 still fails on some very easy tasks, indicating fundamental differences from human intelligence.

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  Passing ARC-AGI does not equate to achieving AGI, and, as a matter of fact, I don't think o3 is AGI yet. o3 still fails on some very easy tasks, indicating fundamental differences with human intelligence.

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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

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  A hard to put down story about a company struggling and how the leadership team comes together under a new leader, doing small things that end up making big differences.

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  Any theory of the fall in birth rates must explain both the worldwide collapse and the differences between countries, and most theories explain only one.

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  It must explain both the global collapse and local variation.

  Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?ggd.world

Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Technology bosses are ordinary monopolists rather than evil geniuses, and crediting them with having hacked our dopamine loops flatters them.

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  tech barons are ordinary mediocrities, no better and no worse than the monopolists that preceded them, and any differences come down to affordances in technology and regulation, not an especial wicked brilliance.

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Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.

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  However normal the rest of Sparta is argued to have been, its enslaved majority is not: no reconstruction of the population makes Sparta anything but extraordinarily enslaved.

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  Consequently if everything else about our understanding of Sparta is made less exceptional, is made more like a normal Greek polis, we are still stuck with this absolutely wildly high percentage of enslaved persons in this society.

  Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Retrospectiveacoup.blog

Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Software's constraints are soft where traditional engineering's are hard, and that is one of the few real differences between them.

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  But constraints in software tend to be soft constraints.

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Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.

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  Introduction to Algorithms

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  but this is wildly impractical as a standalone introduction for most people.

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