At this point I’m convinced these AI renovation videos are our clearest shot at reverse engineering the reward pathways of the human brain

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Leicester, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The industrial skyline in 1954.

amazing to think we likely won't see another simultaneous lent, chinese new year, ramadan and disgraced member of the british royal family being arrested in our lifetime

The English have disinherited and now arrested a literal blood royal over Epstein and America can’t even get a public hearing.

What you can easily do in your social life is give people permission to think. People are currently running into confusing and thought-terminating stuff all day, and the very strange moment in time and mass culture is, once again, that a lot of normal people are just asking you

My mom’s older brother passed away a few years ago. He was the quiet type. Lived in the same modest house for decades. Wore old flannels. Fixed his own car. No one ever thought of him as “well off.” After he died, we learned he had been buying small life insurance policies over

This Punch the monkey thing is making me genuinely upset but it just occurred to me like...what if there is some human loser who we all can't stand, but there are millions of powerful invisible deities who love him and he'll never know?

One of my more important learning experiences was when I was sixteen and my best friend and me biked from Sweden to Åland Islands in Finland. We didn’t have cell phone connection, so my parents didn’t know where we were (and were admirably chill about that; they had given me

Deeply fascinated by this distinctively British genre of photography

Study math if you like when math is beautiful. Study physics if you like when math is true. Study computer science if you like when math is useful. Study stats if you like when math is an unholy mix of beautiful, ugly, useful and true.

95% of Europe PhD applications fail for one boring reason: You don’t look like a researcher. You look like a good student. That’s the problem. In most of Europe, a PhD isn’t “admission.” It’s a paid research contract. At places like ETH Zurich, University of Oxford or the Max

"see, too many people are going to university, it's supply and demand, obviously" vs. "no, graduates have valuable skills and create growth and with it graduate jobs, look at the other countries, increased graduate share caused increased graduate premium" is a good debate imho.

This game is tailored for PhD students

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I saw yesterday that a teammate of mine posted a long note that had all the cringey hallmarks of AI-generated text: very short sentences for emphasis, "this is not just...it's...", "...and that changes everything..." , etc. And it struck me all the sudden that for those who

Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers: Revenue: Elsevier: $3.9 billion Springer Nature: $2 billion Wolters Kluwer: $1.6 billion Wiley: $1.8 billion Taylor & Francis: $800 million Sage: $500 million They pay: Authors: $0 Reviewers: $0

Turns out renaming the Defense Department the Department of War was not an empty formalism.

Debate has always been like this, it's why intelligent people never debate and have no desire to do it, if you're intelligent enough you can effectively argue with sound logic for any position, that's just verbal IQ, you never can lose, debates are useless