The real secret of of global warming is that the climate can be whatever humanity wants it to be. Two dozen nations could each single-handedly send us all into an ice age. The right often frames us as hardly capable of significant impact on climate, a mistake. Own it. We can

For the rest of 2024, I'm going to change it up. Startups, software engineering management, and remote now includes federal policy as relates to my autistic special interests (below). In 2025, election over, we're back to tech Until then innovation economy + housing shortage

Automating AI research is exciting! But can LLMs actually produce novel, expert-level research ideas? After a year-long study, we obtained the first statistically significant conclusion: LLM-generated ideas are more novel than ideas written by expert human researchers.

The leaked Mr Beast production guide is really good, y'all Great examples of how to maintain a high-performance, creative culture

Called it!

It’s a bit uplifting, and terrifying, to think “What other graphs do we have which are one (1) competent executive from hockey sticking?”

People who target top-performing public schools in the name of "equity" destroy it: while wealthy parents can flee to private schools, talented kids from poor families rely on free options. In the past few years, Philadelphia has chosen to undermine that.

Science is tough. TIL that Tim Berners-Lee's paper on the World Wide Web was rejected at a scientific conference in 1991. It was relegated to the poster session. ht Patrick McCray who unearthed the story from a book by Berners-Lee

The port union is demanding "total ban on the automation of cranes, gates and container movements that are used in the loading or loading of freight at 36 U.S. ports". This is bad. Should policymakers really allow this?

Cody James 🇺🇸 The reason software companies are conquering non-software companies is superior technical hiring norms I graduated with all sorts of brilliant non-software engineer friends When they get a EE designing wind turbines, they get ZERO technical interview questions HR bans them

SpaceX I can't be the only one who's crying 😭😭😭

Alphabet books teach reading wrong. They focus on letters when kids should be learning sounds. There are 44 sounds in the English language! Kids need to learn all of them but alphabet books only teach 26. So we made a better book and we're giving it away for free.

iran can't build nuclear reactors because of u.s sanctions and america can't build nuclear reactors because of u.s sanctions

Harris exclusively won single women And single men voted like married women Interesting! (via NBC exit poll)