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2025-04-28

Canada Must Earn Its Security in a Harsh New World

Sovereignty Is Earned, Not Inherited: Canada’s Moment of Truth – As Canada’s 2025 federal election enters its final day, the campaigns thunder on about affordability, green transitions, and dreams of...

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Thin Alignment Can't Solve Thick Problems

Published on April 27, 2025 10:42 PM GMT"Plurality is the law of the earth."— Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958)AbstractContemporary AI alignment practices overwhelmingly rely on thin ethical concepts —...

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2025-04-27

The Way You Go Depends A Good Deal On Where You Want To Get: FEP minimizes surprise about actions using preferences about the future as *evidence*

Published on April 27, 2025 9:55 PM GMTThe motivation for this post came when I was reading various Scott Alexander posts on the Free Energy Principle, in which he seemed...

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How people use LLMs

Published on April 27, 2025 9:48 PM GMTI've gotten a lot of value out of the details of how other people use LLMs, so I'm delighted that Gavin Leech created...

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Calculate Date Differences Easily Using Excel DAYS Function!

DAYS function in Excel is used to calculate the number of days between two dates. It is supported in all modern versions of Excel, including Excel 2013, 2016, 2019, and...

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Learn How to Use the SECOND Function to Retrieve Second Values from Input Time?

The SECOND function in Excel extracts the seconds part of a given input time and returns a number between 0 and 59. The SECSecond function was introduced in Excel 2000....

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How to Calculate ISOWeekNumbers in Excel: Step-by-Step

The ISOWEEKNUM function returns the week number of the year based on the given date value in Excel. The ISOWEE KNUM function was introduced in 2013. All Excel versions released...

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Scientists Successfully Grow Human Tooth in Lab, With Aim of Implanting in Humans

Scientists at King's College London, UK, say they've successfully grown human teeth in a lab for the first time. As detailed in a paper published in the journal ACS Macro...

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How to Get into FAANG Despite Career Gaps, No Experience & No CS Degree

This article explains how you can get a job in MAANG without a CS degree, years of experience, specialized expertise, and even career gaps!

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EOMONTH Function: Simplifying Monthly Financial Calculations in Excel

EOMONTH is a simple yet effective Date related Function in the Microsoft Excel. This function returns the last day of the month after adding or subtracting a specified number of...

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Quickly Return Hour Values with Excel's HOUR Function!

HOUR function is used to return the hour as a number between 0 and 23 from a given time. It requires only one argument, serial_number, which must be a valid...

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Excel Dates Showing Numbers? Here's the Quick Fix

Fix Excel Date Serial Number Formatting Issue. By default, Excel stores Dates as Serial Numbers starting from January 01, 1990. By changing the Number Format of this output, we can...

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Want a Powerful Letter of Reference? Here’s the Script You Need

Jonathon Rseland shares his tips on building a body of 3rd party credibility. He says it takes courage to ask your coworkers, boss, friends, or clients to write you references....

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Meet SNATIKA, Winner of HackerNoon's Startups of The Year 2024 in Training And Consulting

SNATIKA is a global leader in experience-driven education. We believe that knowledge gained through years of work experience deserves formal recognition. We allow experienced individuals to earn Masters degrees without...

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Meet Ambassador, Winner of Startups of The Year 2024 in Denver for Tech

Ambassador is one of 164 startups that won a regional award from the 949,900 votes gathered. The company’s flagship product, Blackbird, builds on the success of previous innovations Edge Stack...

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Scientists Scanned the Brains of Authoritarians and Found Something Weird

People who support authoritarianism on either side of the political divide have, according to a new study, something weird going on with their brains. Published in the journal Neuroscience, new...

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A New Ethereum Upgrade Could Solve Rollups’ Biggest Security Flaw

A new design called Native Rollups allows L2s to inherit full Ethereum L1 security, ditching security councils and simplifying development by having L1 verify rollup transactions directly.

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Луна Лавгуд и Комната Тайн, Часть 6

Published on April 27, 2025 8:26 PM GMTDisclaimer: This is Kongo Landwalker's translation of lsusr's fiction Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 6 into russian.— Она в...

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Blockchains Need “Escape Hatches” in Layer-2

L2 blockchains are fast and cheap, but if the people running them go bad or offline, your money could get stuck. "Escape hatches" are like emergency buttons that let you...

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