2025-05-05
Newton's second law explained: it works in many universes
Published on May 5, 2025 7:47 PM GMTThe linked post explains Newton's second law in an intuitive way. I'm presenting an edited version of that post here. It is a...
There's now a free 'shareware' version of horde-battling RTS Diplomacy is Not an Option
Take on thousands of medieval soldiers in a free demo of Diplomacy is Not an Option.
XB-70 Valkyrie: The Amazing Mach 3 Bomber That Never Flew a Mission
Key Points: The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was a technologically ambitious Mach 3+ bomber prototype designed in the late 1950s to penetrate Soviet airspace at high altitude. -Its innovative features...
This dreary low-poly delivery game pairs Animal Crossing villagers with soul-crushing gig work and I can't wait to play it
It ain't much, but it's honest work.
Early 20th Century Advertisements for the Queen City Printing Ink Company
I love the colorful illustrative style of these adverts for the Queen City Printing Ink Company done by Augustus Jansson in the first decade of the 20th century. Tags: advertising...
Google's AI Is Scraping Even Sites That Ask to Be Ignored
Don't want a tech conglomerate to train its AI model on your website? Too bad ā Google will do it anyway. That, more or less, is what the Silicon Valley...
The Sweet Lesson: AI Safety Should Scale With Compute
Published on May 5, 2025 7:03 PM GMTA corollary of Sutton's Bitter Lesson is that solutions to AI safety should scale with compute.[1]Ā Let's consider a few examples of research...
How to Tell if AI Really is a Revolution
The article argues that AI will mostly likely revolutionize jobs when it passes the Turing Testābecoming indistinguishable from a human in knowledgeable conversation. Should that happen, professions like law or...
The F-47 Could Suffer from the Same āMistakeā as the F-35 Fighter
Key Points: The operational range of the newly announced USAF F-47 NGAD fighter remains a critical, yet unspecified, factor for its role, particularly in the vast Indo-Pacific. -The F-35 was...
Tsinghua paper: Does RL Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?
Published on May 5, 2025 6:56 PM GMTarXiv | project page | Authors: Yang Yue, Zhiqi Chen, Rui Lu, Andrew Zhao, Zhaokai Wang, Yang Yue, Shiji Song, Gao HuangThis paper...
Behind the Scenes of Using Web Scraping and AI in Investigative Journalism
Web scraping is widely used by various data-driven businesses. However, scraping also aids non-profit projects. For example, web data extraction tools allow journalists to keep government agencies accountable. By gathering...
The B-21 Raider Bomber Shortage?
Key Points: The planned initial fleet of 100 B-21 Raider stealth bombers for the US Air Force, while numerically superior to the B-2s being replaced, faces questions about sufficiency in...
After 2 decades of snacking, a new World of Warcraft spell renders vendor food partly obsolete
How will NPCs make a living now?
The colours of her coat (Karlsruhe ACX Meetup)
Published on May 5, 2025 6:35 PM GMTLetās hang out and discuss The colors of her coat by Scott Alexander.If you can, please think about the following questions while reading...
Poker Meets Web3: MTT Sports Steals the Spotlight at TOKEN2049
MTT Sports is sponsoring the TOKEN2049 Dubai 2025, one of the most prestigious global gatherings of crypto, blockchain, and Web3 innovators.
Credentials Don't Make Alpha Engineers, Products Do
Your legacy as an engineer will be defined by what you build, not by the credentials you accumulate. The alpha engineers know this, it's time you did too.
Educational Byte: What are Crypto Coin Mixers? Are They Legal?
Crypto mixers are tools designed to make cryptocurrency transactions more private. They take coins from different people, mix them all together, and then send out new coins, hiding where the...
Total Chad Gets Bit by Hundreds Venomous Snakes to Develop Universal Antivenom
It sounds like the origin story of a superhero, but there's nothing fictional about what Tim Friede's accomplished.Ā Since 2001, the 57-year-old Wisconsin man has let himself be bitten by...
Canadaās F-35 Decsion Might Come Down to Just 1 Word
Key Points: Canadaās potential cancellation or reduction of its 88-unit F-35 fighter purchase carries significant negative economic consequences beyond military strategy. It all comes down to one word: money.Ā -Participation...
Space Marine 2's Astartes Overhaul mod brings Terminators to the campaign, NPC Dreadnoughts to operations, and 12-player lobbies
'Lore Accurate' in this context means 'Space Marines steamroll everything'.
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