It’s just hard to fathom how badly we may be about to screw ourselves on the pandemic fight. politico.com/news/2022/05/1…

We should make better vaccines! slowboring.com/p/lets-use-uns…

What’s holding back the development of universal coronavirus vaccines that could stop all variants? Not basic science, a series of dumb logistical snags the government should be cutting through. slowboring.com/p/we-could-hav…

💉 In six months, we could probably have a vaccine that prevents infection and transmission for all present and future covid variants. It works in theory and it works in mice. With bureaucratic obstacles, best case is 2024. Patrick Collison urges a policy fix: slowboring.com/p/we-could-hav…

Continuing the *tutor tradition, wu and Robert Ward release SQLTutor, which helps you visualize query plans and their execution cudbg.github.io/sqltutor/

If you can get fifty brilliant PhDs to work on a boring or trivial problem (air conditioner optimization or playing some video game) for a few years, they'll probably solve it. You do that by telling them they are working on "artificial intelligence" which is The Next Big Thing.

"I’m not worried about an onslaught of terrible papers—we’ve *already* got an onslaught of terrible papers. You learn very quickly to ignore them, just like you learn to ignore junk mail, stupid Netflix shows, and spam calls." experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-dance-of…

Not being able to see beneath the presentation of the thing vs the underlying reality of the thing seems to be a recurring theme in tech journalism at the Times. LLMs have intent and agency precisely as much as crypto has intrinsic value. 🙄 nytimes.com/2023/02/16/tec…

One time 20 years ago a computer science professor said something wrong (a technicality) in class, so I spent quite a lot of time proving them wrong in this video, and then just kept going, as if I don't have any self-control over my approach to projects: youtu.be/Ae9EKCyI1xU

I just want to say that I hate you all for not buying the iPhone mini resulting in its cancellation and I’ll never forgive you for it.

Slang is an open-source, cross-platform shading language that targets D3D, Vulkan, GLSL, CUDA and C++. Today, it is fully differentiable, which means you can autodiff your existing shader code!

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we

The more I read about self-driving cars, the more I think Americans just want better trains and public transit but are too proud to admit it