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Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.

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  Failed U.S. attempts to secure its preferred outcomes in the Persian Gulf will keep energy prices elevated.

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  So it does not seem as though U.S. preferences in the Persian Gulf will be achieved - which means prices in general and energy prices in particular are likely to stay high.

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Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.

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  Involuntary patterns reveal something true about a person, and even their deliberate actions are a form of unintentional self-expression.

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  there exists a wisdom in the involuntary, and that our attempts to shape reality, however intentional, are themselves a form of unintentional expression.

  #281: You, with a layer of paranoia shaved offhaleynahman.substack.com

Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.

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  Local mixing, a new cryptographic obfuscation approach, is a risky bet resembling past failed attempts at white-box cryptography.

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  This is a wild and risky bet; it sits on a graveyard of failed attempts at white-box cryptography .

  Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixingvitalik.eth.limo

Graphic designer and type designer, who created the original Macintosh icons and typefaces at Apple from 1982 and has since designed interface graphics for NeXT, Microsoft, Facebook and Pinterest.

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  An interface should say what it means with animation and sound rather than text, because then one version works internationally.

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  but we tried not to have any any text so that it could be international without having to make a different version.

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Professor at Stanford working on robot learning and meta-learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence.

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  Most future robotics training data will be robots' own autonomous attempts, the way most language-model data is now generated by the model itself.

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  Uh and just like how we see in language models how now a lot of time is spent actually generating data, generating synthetic data by actually running the model and having it think through things. I think a lot of the data in the future in robotics is going to be the robot attempting to do lots of tasks in lots of real world circumstances.

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Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.

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  The Gulf conflict and closure of the Strait of Hormuz will accelerate the global shift away from fossil fuels

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  What the current conflict in the Gulf - in particular the closure of the Strait of Hormuz - is going to do is to provide a further push to global attempts to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

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Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.

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  Rust's least mature area is the front end: write the backend in Rust and the front end in TypeScript rather than shipping Rust to the browser through WebAssembly.

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  My opinion is that the least mature area is front end. There have been some attempts to compile Rust to Web Assembly and then run it on the web as a front end as a replacement for TypeScript. But if I was writing a web server, I would totally use Rust for the back end and TypeScript for the front end. I would not really go the web assembly route.

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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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  Fully autonomous one-shot attempts are the wrong approach to the great unsolved problems; the mileage is in humans and tools working against each other.

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  I I I I do feel that, you know, fully autonomous one-shot approaches are not the right approach for these problems. I mean, I I think you you'll get a lot more mileage out of the interplay between between humans collaborating with these tools.

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Medieval historian at the LSE; writes Going Medieval and The Middle Ages: A Graphic History, and spends a lot of it correcting what people think the period was like.

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  There is no such thing as revisionist history: re-evaluating the sources and controlling for bias is simply what writing history is.

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  There is no such thing as revisionist history. Writing history is a constant process of re-evaluation of sources and attempts to control for the biases of the past as well as our own.

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Design engineer; formerly at Linear and Vercel; author of Sonner and Vaul; teaches animations.dev.

From one piece Good vs Great Animations 2 beliefs · emilkowal.ski

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  Everyone's software is good enough these days, so to stand out a product has to feel great, and animation is one way to get there.

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  Everyone’s software is good enough these days. The barriers to entry are low. To stand out, you need to make your product feel great. One way of doing that is through animations.

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  Easing is the most important part of any animation: it can make a bad animation feel great and a great one feel bad.

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  Easing is the most important part of any animation. It can make a bad animation feel great and a great animation feel bad. That’s why you have to know which easing to choose in a specific situation.

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Medicinal chemist; has written In the Pipeline, the drug-discovery blog, since 2002, and the “Things I Won’t Work With” posts about chemicals that try to kill you.

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  Biology keeps turning up whole classes of things nobody knew existed, and that is what defeats attempts to model it.

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  The "unknown unknown" problem makes hash (in retrospect) of many attempts at biological theorizing and modeling, and I think that this problem will still accrue to ML models until we know an awful lot more.

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Sociologist and founder of Bismarck Analysis; writes on live players, institutional decay and why societies lose knowledge.

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  In a dysfunctional society the loss of working knowledge becomes routine, and attempts to reverse-engineer what was lost do not always succeed.

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  That knowledge never should have been lost in the first place, but in a dysfunctional society, such loss of knowledge becomes the rule.

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Writer and researcher on how people organise online; wrote Working in Public, on the maintenance of open-source software, and Antimemetics.

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  New licences are the wrong lever for paying maintainers: copyleft’s history shows terms companies ignore, and relicensing attempts get beaten back by their own communities.

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  As for my personal feelings on the matter, however, I’m skeptical that new licenses are the right approach on a systemic level, both in terms of feasibility, as well as where I think the world is going.

  Making money with licensesnadia.xyz

Scottish GP and writer; author of Adventures in Human Being, Shapeshifters, Intensive Care and Recovery.

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  That the Best Physician is Also a Philosopher

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  There's another ancient text I could have mentioned: Galen's That the Best Physician is Also a Philosopher. It's essentially a call to arms for doctors to concentrate on the perfection of their clinical skills and to give up on ideas of attempts to get rich through their art. It shows all the ways in which he doesn't trust those doctors who use their talents for a gain other than the benefit of their patients. It is short and elegant.

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Physician and author on addiction, stress and childhood development. Wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, and developed the Compassionate Inquiry approach taught to therapists.

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  Childhood trauma is the template for every addiction, including the socially rewarded ones.

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  Childhood trauma is the template for addiction-any addiction. All addictions are attempts to escape the deep pain of the hurt child, attempts temporarily soothing but ultimately futile.

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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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  The Algorithm Design Manual

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  The longer, more comprehensive, more practical, less math-y version of Dasgupta. It's similar in that it attempts to teach you how to identify problems, use the correct algorithm, and give a clear explanation of the algorithm.

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