Why isn't color-coding explanations more common?

I tried some Roam alternatives (Notion, Obsidian, TiddlyBlink), but none of them seem as attractive as Logseq 🪵 It has the features I love in roam (block refs, smooth UI, daily pages, etc), and more than that (locally stored, synced with github, better graphs and drawing & more)

If I finish all of the physics a lesson or two before the end of term, I like to use those spare lessons to do something fun. For the last 12 years I have done a boys vs girls engineering challenge and the girls nearly always win. Here is why...

It makes them feel seen. I think there is something about having your hardship and suffering known by others – the sheer recognition of it – that alleviates, ever so slightly, the burden of carrying it alone.

Tanzanian micro-paleontologist, Joyce Singano, is the first African to win the prestigious Brady Medal Award. The award is the highest accolade given to micropaleontology scientists who have influenced the field immensely through excellent research and service to the community.

After many years, I think that the real core of the argument for "AGI risk" (AGI ruin) is appreciating the power of intelligence enough to realize that getting superhuman intelligence wrong, ON THE FIRST TRY, will kill you ON THAT FIRST TRY, not let you learn and try again.

4. But the bottom-line was another story. There are 2 big costs: Big-box stores are expensive in terms of the public services they require, mainly police and road costs. And second, big-box stores cause the value of downtown and other commercial buildings to drop.

In hindsight this was one of the spectacularly bad takes of the last decade. “All we are saying / is give war a chance” 😞

In order for the group to expand, an out-group individual needs to present sufficient value to overcome group loyalty. This is why claiming 'meritocracy!' is not enough, although it is in principle fair, it ignores our natural tendencies.

An IBM slide from 1979.

Not saying Mitch McConnell and his Republican terrorists friends, is robbing you out of your Social Security, but what do you think?

Amrita Viantika "This P1 Bug Will Shock You!" "These 12 Flaky End-to-End Tests Will Blow Your Mind" "Which Slow SQL Query Are You? Take Our Quiz & Find Out"

Third, let me note a few of the many bad things with these pieces. The lead article on the shooting today did not mention that U.S. is an outlier in the availability of guns, or poverty, or inequality, or lack of mental health care, or that NY just added more cops to subways.

Fifth, NYT also uses the opportunity to link to Eric Adams defending the return to brutal, illegal, and ineffective “broken windows” policing. Incredibly, the NYT asserts as a fact that the goal of such policing was to “prevent more serious crime.”

“There’s No Way I’m Projecting Sentience Onto This A.I. Chatbot” Claims Species That Pair-Bonded With Wolves

Jon interviewed Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General, about why her state banned gender-affirming care for minors - ignoring the guidelines of major medical organizations and taking the decision out of parents’ hands. Watch the full interview on @AppleTVPlus

This may revolutionize data science: we introduce TabPFN, a new tabular data classification method that takes 1 second & yields SOTA performance (better than hyperparameter-optimized gradient boosting in 1h). Current limits: up to 1k data points, 100 features, 10 classes. 🧵1/6

The single most important thing I have learned about software development over my career is that if you do not aggressively fight complexity, it will eat you alive.