one time as a kid, my dad told me about some old research he'd read he said, maybe asian kids are better at math because they just try 50% longer

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A timely Soviet joke: A man comes to a newsstand every day, scans the front page, and leaves disappointed. One day the vendor asks what he's looking for. The man says an obituary. "But, Comrade, the obituaries are at the back." The man replies, "Not the one I’m looking for."

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A big thing that holds back leaders with an engineering background (myself included) is that in strategic communication, engineers *only* really process fact/logic-based arguments, and *everyone else* only really processes narratives. Can create a massive internal co disconnect

Absolute hero.

The Taxpayer Land Acknowledgment. Share it, recite it, customize it for your city. For the people, by the people!

How do you motivate workers? Leo Bursztyn, Ewan Racliffe and I have a new paper. We look at highly skilled 'workers' whose effort was near-impossible to monitor -- German fighter pilots in WW2.

Brutal living in Quebec

On this frigid Saturday morning Ontario is generating 21,565MW. Of that capacity: - 255MW is from 4,943MW of wind (1.2%) - 245MW is from 478MW of solar (1.1%) - 107MW is from 851MW of batteries (0.5%) - 169MW is from 287MW of bio (0.8%) - 4,479MW is from 8,866MW of hydro (20.8%)

Another angle of federal agents killing a Minnesota legal observer, which appears to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk. Obtained by Drop Site News

sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings

Folks. Can I explain something about world models? Seems like today might be a good day for that. Advances in large-scale “world models” — whether developed by partners like Google or others — materially expand the frontier of interactive content creation. These models can

We’re making a fundamental tradeoff when we use these coding agents, but some of my engineering friends still don’t seem to get it. I see a lot of engineers make the argument “AI outputs still aren’t that great, code quality isn’t the same as writing it by hand.” And it’s all

Kimi 2.5 is very good

Sholto Douglas from Anthropic, in his sexy Australian accent, explaining why new Sonnet models end up being smarter than Opus

The two Superpower Energy Systems On the left is the US energy system and on the right is the Chinese energy system. What is immediately obvious is how very different they are. US is dominated by nat gas and primary crude, China is dominated by coal. There are some more subtle

Genie by Google DeepMind runs on 4x H100 GPUs (leaked from an internal presentation). With this level of compute it achieves 24 fps with 720p.

10000000% build them yesterday

2020: "sure it can generate some syntactically valid python snippets, but anything complex and it just falls apart. stochastic parrot." 2026: "sure it can write a C compiler on its own, but it's not even as efficient as GCC and it doesn't have its own linker. stochastic parrot."