2025-05-29
I Want No One Else to Succeed
In this video, a writer named Hannah shares an experiment her Intro to Psychology professor ran on her class. Here’s a transcript: It’s 11 years ago, I’m in a massive...
Rethinking Simulation: How CompLabs Is Building Foundation Models for Mechanical Design
CompLabs is building a foundation AI model for mechanical simulations, enabling engineers to run high-fidelity tests in seconds without meshing. By understanding 3D geometry and physics, their approach makes design...
Why AI Agents Should Handle the Mundane, So Humans Don’t Have To
Engineer Matteo Zamparini believes AI agents should do the repetitive work, freeing humans for strategic thinking. From real estate to clean energy, his work at PropRise shows how agentic systems...
The Game Informer archive just got upgraded with its entire backlog, so go experience the eye-melting world of '90s game advertising
Must pop. Must bust. Or else I'm dust.
The 100 best sports moments of the 21st century (so far). Hmm....
The 100 best sports moments of the 21st century (so far). Hmm. That’s all I’m going to say about this list. Hmm. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
FLOKI And New To The Street Announce Media Partnership To Reach 219M+ Households
Floki has signed a sweeping media partnership with New to The Street, a leading financial media brand. The three-month campaign will spotlight FLOKI’s fast-growing ecosystem, including its flagship MMORPG game....
IPinfo Launches IPinfo Core: City-Level Precision And Privacy Clarity
IPinfo has launched IPinfo Core, a powerful new product offering precise city-level geolocation and five privacy/connection-type signals. Built for smarter fraud prevention, compliance, and network optimization, it brings enterprise-grade IP...
Career-Launching Companies: These are the Companies You Should Work For
To win in the career market, you need to work at the best companies. These are the one's to know.
Re: SpaceX rockets that keep exploding: You Can’t Make an Omelette Without...
Re: SpaceX rockets that keep exploding: You Can’t Make an Omelette Without Exploding Several Billion Dollars Worth of Eggs. “Look, things explode. It’s just part of nature. Cybertrucks explode, and...
This Sleazy GLP-1 Prescription Site Is Using Deepfaked "Before-and-After" Photos of Fake Patients, and Running Ads Showing AI-Generated Ozempic Boxes
MEDVi, an online hub for GLP-1 drugs, wants you to know that it's "serious" about helping you lose weight. According to its website, it wants you to join "50,000+ MEDVi...
Gradual Disempowerment: Concrete Research Projects
Published on May 29, 2025 6:55 PM GMTThis post benefitted greatly from comments, suggestions, and ongoing discussions with David Duvenaud, David Krueger, and Jan Kulveit. All errors are my own.A...
Do you even have a system prompt? (PSA / repo)
Published on May 29, 2025 6:49 PM GMTEveryone around me has a notable lack of system prompt. And when they do have a system prompt, it’s either the eigenprompt or...
Do you even have a system prompt? (PSA)
Published on May 29, 2025 6:49 PM GMTEveryone around me has a notable lack of system prompt. And when they do have a system prompt, it’s either the eigenprompt or...
Incorrect Baseline Evaluations Call into Question Recent LLM-RL Claims
Published on May 29, 2025 6:40 PM GMTThere has been a flurry of recent papers proposing new RL methods that claim to improve the “reasoning abilities” in language models. The...
Alexandra Petri has some advice for the 2025 Harvard grad who will...
Alexandra Petri has some advice for the 2025 Harvard grad who will become ludicrously rich: “After the cataclysmic Event happens that unravels society and sends me scurrying to my luxury...
If NASA Had Blown Up This Many Rockets, The Government Would Have Cancelled the Space Program
As an institution, the United States Pentagon has come to be known for many things over the years — its transparency, its generosity, its cunning. Consistency is not one of...
After a year and a half of updates, WoW Classic's Season of Discovery is finally winding down in favor of something new: 'We need to get in the proverbial kitchen and cook'
Season of Discovery servers aren't shutting down any time soon, but the team is moving on.
A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in...
Shifting Baselines and the New Normal of the Trump Era
Among a number of things I’ve read online that I think about all the time is David Roberts’ 2020 piece for Vox about shifting baselines. Humans often don’t remember what...
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