2025-05-02
My Research Process: Understanding and Cultivating Research Taste
Published on May 1, 2025 11:08 PM GMTThis is post 3 of a sequence on my framework for doing and thinking about research. Start here. Thanks to my co-author Gemini...
AI Governance to Avoid Extinction: The Strategic Landscape and Actionable Research Questions
Published on May 1, 2025 10:46 PM GMTWe’re excited to release a new AI governance research agenda from the MIRI Technical Governance Team. With this research agenda, we have two...
The PC game releases we're most excited about in May
Go ahead start recruiting some friends for this one.
SQL Transactions - How to Implement COMMIT, ROLLBACK, and Savepoints With Python
In modern database development, tools like **DataGrip** make transaction handling easier by providing graphical interfaces to commit, rollback, or set savepoints. In this article, we’ll define **COMMIT**, **ROLLBACK**, and **SAVEPOINT**...
DrLupo admits to cheating in $100,000 online chess tournament, faces brutal backlash from Reddit: 'Dude went from 'what's a horsey?' to 'I can see 15 moves ahead' in 2 minutes'
The popular streamer was kicked out of the PogChamps 6 tournament for a "fair play violation."
Stadium's roadmap for Overwatch 2 is planned out for the next three seasons, with more heroes, maps, and custom games on the horizon
The next three heroes may make you cry.
2025-05-01
A recent survey “shows a steep decline in the number of parents...
A recent survey “shows a steep decline in the number of parents reading aloud to young children, with 41% of 0- to four-year-olds now being read to frequently, down from...
Revisiting LangChain4J 6 Months Later
The main focus of this post is the integration of an MCP server in a LangChain4J app. While the configuration is straightforward thanks to the documentation, there are a few...
AI and Proxies: Are They Connected?
Proxies play a critical role in AI by enabling seamless data collection, web scraping, and automation. They help bypass IP bans, simulate geo-locations, and ensure AI tools remain undetected. With...
Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages
A photograph of Trump administration official Mike Waltz's phone shows him using an unofficial version of Signal designed to archive messages during a cabinet meeting.
Meet Cerbos, Winner of Startups of The Year 2024 in Access Control
\ The special Startups of The Year 2024 Winners Interview series is a celebration of all this year’s Tech Champions. You’ve earned it! The HackerNoon community can’t wait to learn...
Rusted Steel: 5 Worst U.S. Tanks In Military History
Key Points and Summary: This analysis identifies the author’s picks for the five worst tanks involving US development, highlighting design flaws and performance issues. -The list includes: the cancelled US/German...
Katy Perry Says Her Treatment After Bezos Spaceflight Was Horribly Unfair
Whiplash It's the 11 minute space trip heard round the world — and it just won't go away. Weeks on from Katy Perry's epic girlboss trip to the outer atmosphere,...
How to specify an alignment target
Published on May 1, 2025 9:11 PM GMT[Crossposted from my substack Working Through AI.]It’s pretty normal to chunk the alignment problem into two parts. One is working out how to...
Do You Really Need a “Second Brain”?
Lucaliu: You don’t actually need a “second brain” to store your thoughts, ideas, and tasks. What you really need is a set of productivity tools that supports and streamlines the...
Theoretical Gravastars Are Even Weirder Than Black Holes
TIL I learned about gravastars (aka a gravitational vacuum star), theoretical objects related to black holes. Both are massive & dense, but instead of a singularity surrounded by an event...
Obstacles in ARC's agenda: Mechanistic Anomaly Detection
Published on May 1, 2025 8:51 PM GMTAs an employee of the European AI Office, it's important for me to emphasize this point: The views and opinions of the author...
Army Will Seek Right to Repair Clauses in All Its Contracts
A recent memo detailed a future where soldiers can repair their own equipment.
Right after drafting my patent, found a GitHub repo backdated with junk then filled with my recursive system. Has anyone seen this before?
Published on May 1, 2025 8:14 PM GMTI've privately developed a recursive system for several years-modular, identity-aware, centered around cognitive tone, structural reflection, orchestration, and alignment.I've never published it publicly,...
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