2025-04-12
Ukraine’s Tank Crisis: Why NATO Support Might Not Be Enough
Summary and Key Points: Ukraine’s tank fleet has suffered heavy losses during the ongoing war with Russia, surpassing its prewar numbers. -Initially equipped with around 800-900 tanks, Ukraine’s fleet has...
Why does LW not put much more focus on AI governance and outreach?
Published on April 12, 2025 2:24 PM GMTEpistemic status: Noticing confusionThere is little discussion happening on LessWrong with regards to AI governance and outreach. Meanwhile, these efforts could buy us...
Seeing With Less: MindEye2's Efficient Approach to Brain-Based Image Decoding
We introduce MindEye2, a modeling approach that outputs reconstructions of seen images from fMRI activity with a similar quality to previous approaches using only a fraction of the training data.
How Building a Jira App Led Me to Create PeekNote — a Minimal macOS Notes Tool for Developers
PeekNote is a lightweight, always-on-top notes app for macOS. Each tab holds a separate text block. You can add code, emojis, formulas — whatever you need.
U.S. Military to Hold Mysterious Wargames in China’s Backyard This Summer
The long-anticipated U.S. pivot to Asia is gaining steam. Multiple branches of the U.S. military, as well as partners and allies in the Indo-Pacific region, are rolling up their sleeves...
Fomenting Antisemitism
Not Combating It
This Is What Happens to Telecom Networks When Everyone Streams at Once
A traditional network operation will fail to handle pressure unless it includes adaptive response mechanisms.
Boeing’s F-47 NGAD 6th-Generation Fighter Might Be a Big Mistake
On March 21, it was announced that Boeing had won the contract to develop the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter, now christened the F-47. Experts and enthusiasts alike are...
MindEye2: Novel Functional Alignment for fMRI
It is common for fMRI analyses to align subjects’ brains to a shared space for the purposes of increasing statistical power and/or assessing generality of scientific findings.
The Partition of Ukraine: How the War with Russia Ends?
Partition Ukraine? Special Envoy General Keith Kellogg has reportedly proposed partitioning Ukraine. “You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after World War Two, when you had...
Scientists Gathered Follow-Up Data on Medical Cannabis Patients and the Results Are Pretty Striking
Some dope news from the world of medicinal pot smokers: the latest research backs up that taking cannabis on the doctor's orders significantly improves the symptoms of multiple ailments, including...
Is Local Order a Clue to Universal Entropy? How a Failed Professor Searches for a 'Sacred Motivational Order'
Published on April 12, 2025 1:39 PM GMTHello, I need to encourage my students to seek order and study, and primarily to motivate myself to do the same. So I'm...
What are good safety standards for open source AIs from China?
Published on April 12, 2025 1:06 PM GMTIt looks like the compromising between those who want to ban Chinese AI models in the United States in the c rrent administration...
The Ocean Spectacle that Has Entranced Sailors for Centuries
“It was like we were in the ‘Twilight Zone’ and peering at a negative of the real world,” said one mariner.
RFK Jr. Surprised to Learn He'd Cut a Grant For Youth Diabetes Research
Earlier this month, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary and noted anti-vaccine crackpot Robert Kennedy Jr. admitted that thousands of laid-off workers had to be reinstated due to...
Following massive player fall-off, Amazon's MMO Lost Ark is getting an update to make levelling faster and address a 'known progression pain point'
"These changes will help make progression more accessible."
Will US tariffs push data centers for large model training offshore?
Published on April 12, 2025 12:47 PM GMTOne aspect of the tariffs will be that it's more costly to import chips into the United States. Does anybody understand data center...
Calling Bullshit - the Cheatsheet
Published on April 12, 2025 11:43 AM GMTIn the last chapters of the book Calling Bullshit, the authors Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West outline how they think bullshit...
Concepts as Behavioral Checksums
Published on April 11, 2025 9:55 PM GMTImagine buying a new Xbox game, like Forza Horizon 3. The game disk comes with some data preloaded, like visual assets or hardcoded...
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