2025-05-12
A Live Look at the Senate AI Hearing
Published on May 12, 2025 5:40 PM GMTToday’s post will be a little different. This past week,Sam Altman and others testified at a US Senate hearing on AI competitiveness. Here’s...
Scientists Just Moved Up the Death Date of the Universe
A team of researchers have found that the universe around us is decaying far more quickly than we thought thanks to Hawking radiation, the idea that black holes "evaporate" over...
Who Has the Fastest Hypersonic Missile? Russia, China, or America?
Key Points – While Russia and China surged ahead early in the hypersonic weapons race, recent American advances are quickly closing the gap. -Russia’s Mach-8 Zircon missile and China’s DF-17...
Cyber Startup Pillar Security Raises $9M in Seed Funding to Defend AI with its Own Tech
Pillar Security, a Tel Aviv-based cyber startup, raised $9M in Seed funding to secure AI systems. Its platform maps AI assets and addresses unique vulnerabilities in agentic software. Backed by...
That Stupid Apple Notes ‘a’
Nathan Ingraham, writing for Engadget: There are a lot of rumors flying around about a big iOS and macOS redesign coming this year, perhaps as a distraction to the continued...
This is a little bit genius: an analysis of OpenAI based on...
This is a little bit genius: an analysis of OpenAI based on a close reading of a 22-second video of CEO Sam Altman cooking pasta. “His kitchen is a catalogue...
Elden Ring Nightreign's story is told in part through playable memories, so FromSoftware really is delivering lore through whacking things
Relive that time your character hit a monster really hard!
Win SEO in the Age of LLMs: Strategies for AI Visibility
As AI-powered search evolves, SEO must adapt to how Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity interpret and surface content. It’s no longer just about ranking—content must be...
Global Risks Weekly Roundup #19/2025: India/Pakistan ceasefire, US/China tariffs deal & OpenAI nonprofit control
Published on May 12, 2025 5:08 PM GMTExecutive summaryIndia and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire, and despite initial breaches, it now seems to be holding.The Trump administration and China...
[Beneath Psychology] Introduction Part 1: The Challenge
Published on May 12, 2025 5:01 PM GMTThis sequence, "Beneath Psychology: Truth-Seeking as the Engine of Change", explores how to understand and navigate psychological change from a first principles perspective....
‘Stunning Breakthrough’ Could Allow B-1B Lancer Bombers to Carry 36 Hypersonic Missiles
Key Points – The B-1B Lancer, a Cold War-era bomber scheduled for retirement by 2036, could see a dramatic revival as a hypersonic missile platform. -Recent Air Force testing explores...
PSA: The LessWrong Feedback Service
Published on May 12, 2025 4:34 PM GMTAt the bottom of the LessWrong post editor, if you have at least 100 global karma, you may have noticed this button.The buttonMany...
ThunderX3 Flex Pro Ergonomic Office Chair review
An excellent gaming chair with delusions of office chair grandeur.
Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New...
Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New York. Uniformly positive results clear from the data after just a few months. And millions raised for public...
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative Summer Research Fellowship in AI Safety (Deadline: May 18)
Published on May 12, 2025 4:20 PM GMT[Sharing here for anyone who may be interested]Â "Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative is excited to announce its full-time, paid, in-person Summer Research Fellowship...
Elon Musk Is Running a "Quiet Trial" of Trump's "Gold Card" Billionaire Immigration Program
South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, who became a US citizen in 2002 after moving to the country seven years prior, says he's "doing a quiet trial" of president Donald Trump's...
How to Select the Right Features for Better Machine Learning Results
Feature selection reduces data dimensions to improve model performance. Key methods include filters, wrappers, and embedded techniques, each with distinct pros and cons.
Can Less Data Make Better Predictions? This Study Says Yes
This study used financial data from Fortune 100 companies to test how shrinking datasets and time series similarity methods impact Apple’s stock price prediction accuracy.
You Can Only Trust Your Data if You Know What to Ignore
This study evaluates the stability of feature selection methods—like variance, edit distance, and Hausdorff distance—on small financial time series datasets. It finds that these similarity-based techniques are robust to low...
Test Smarter, Not Harder: How Purpose-Built Test Management Tools Outperform Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets have been used to organise data since ancient Babylonia. But they can be limited depending on the use case they're applied to. Modern test management tools have distinct advantages...
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