2025-04-12
Breaking Glass Without Breaking Trust - follow up story
Driving change as a product manager even when your boss puts you on pause
Does this game have a name?
Published on April 12, 2025 1:52 AM GMTThere is a game where one player wants to predict the action of the other, and the other player wants them to fail...
How Can the F-35 Fighter Cost $2,100,000,000,000? We Did the Math.
The F-35 Lightning II has been a divisive topic for many years now. Critics argue that the project is far too costly for what the jet offers, while others staunchly...
Normalizing Simulation Discussions Among Physicists
Published on April 12, 2025 12:58 AM GMTIf the universe is likely to be based on information-processing, and if we know it recognizes measurement like humans recognize measurement—despite the fact...
'Just make a very good game': Sloclap dismisses the idea that online games need to be free-to-play
The studio's new competitive sports game, Rematch, will cost $30 when it releases this summer.
Mindeye2: References You Should Check Out
Here are some Mindeye2 references you should check out.
Software engineering under the spotlight
Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as components shuffle back and forth, and…
Wicked features
Why is working at large tech companies so hard? It’s because a small subset of “wicked features” dominate everything else. If you’re…
2025-04-11
How Trump's Tariffs Could Affect Crypto and Tech
Trump's tariffs might affect the crypto and tech industry through costly mining. One in the virtual and the other in the real world.
Rematch blew away my expectations—trailers don't do Sloclap's 5v5 football game justice
It's the closest I've come to feeling like I'm actually playing a game of football in a videogame.
Anker, a Chinese Company, Has Already Started Raising Its Prices on Amazon
Reuters: China’s Anker, one of Amazon’s largest sellers offering products from power banks to phone cases, has raised prices on a fifth of its products on the U.S. platform since...
GOG's 'Classics Promo' sale rolls into the weekend with deep discounts on more than 1,000 good old games
If you're looking for something to play this weekend, GOG might be able to help.
'Let's just fail quickly this time': Semiwork took a 'big risk' on REPO after its first game took 6 years to make and didn't sell very well
Semiwork was in a tough spot after Voidigo failed to catch on, so it took a bit of a different approach to its next game.
AB Charity Foundation Launches Global Operations With Blockchain-Backed Public Good Framework
AB Charity Foundation is an Ireland-based nonprofit operating under EU legal status. Led by a board of former European heads of state, the Foundation supports initiatives in education, healthcare, environmental...
Theories of Impact for Causality in AI Safety
Published on April 11, 2025 8:16 PM GMTThanks to Jonathan Richens and Tom Everitt for discussions about this post.The case for causality research[1] is under-stated in the broader AI Safety...
European Travel to the U.S. Plummets
Financial Times reporter John Burn-Murdoch has a summary on Bluesky of his co-bylined report for the Financial Times: Visitors from western Europe who stayed at least one night in the...
Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier John F. Kennedy Has Uncorrected ‘Critical Challenges’
Summary and Key Points: The USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), the second Ford-class supercarrier, faces another delay due to persistent issues with elevators, electromagnetic launch and recovery systems, and...
How training-gamers might function (and win)
Published on April 11, 2025 9:26 PM GMTIn this post I lay out a concrete vision of how reward-seekers and schemers might function. I describe the relationship between higher level...
Tesla Shows Off Cheaper and Slower Cybertruck That's an Even Worse Deal
Budget Cybertruck Tesla has introduced a cheaper, entry-level Cybertruck — and by all accounts, it's still not looking like a great deal. The new Long Range Rear Wheel Drive (RWD)...
Debunk the myth————Testing the generalized reasoning ability of LLM
Published on April 11, 2025 8:17 PM GMTConclusion Currently (as of 2025-3), the real reasoning ability of LLMs disclosed is at least 50 times lower than what is implied by...
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