2025-05-27
How to Make Money on Trump’s Memecoin (Short It)
Tina Nguyen at The Verge: I interviewed an enthusiastic crypto trader who figured out how to win the contest without losing any money: buy enough $TRUMP to get onto the...
China’s Stealth J-35A vs. F-47 NGAD: We Breakdown Which Fighter Is Better
The U.S. Air Force has chosen the F-47 as its Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter. U.S. President Donald Trump signed off on a $20 billion contract with Boeing, meaning...
Byond game engine suffers a weeks-long DDoS attack, apparently because a wanna-be Bond villain is trying to force it to go open source: 'Attacks on Byond servers are a symptom of your obstinance'
I don't know if the explanation is real, but the attack certainly is.
‘Sony: Because Caucasians Are Just Too Damn Tall’
Here’s a spoof commercial from the 1990 movie Crazy People, starring Dudley Moore and Daryl Hannah, which TMDB synopsizes: A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds...
The New York Times Digs in on the ‘Young Chinese Women Have Small Fingers’ Claim
Julia Carrie Wong, a reporter for the Guardian, has a whole thread over on Bluesky digging into the bizarre “young Chinese women have small fingers” line in Tripp Mickle’s New...
2025-05-26
Gomble Games Launches GOMBLE BUILDERS: A Web3 Game Creation Platform For Communities And The Masses
Gomble Games launches BUILDERS, a creator platform where communities co-develop games, contribute assets, and share in the upside. The finished games are built to reach millions of mainstream mobile users...
Vanta ($2.4B) CPO: "My Whole Org has v0 Licenses"
Through his 16 years at Microsoft, to becoming a VP at GitHub, and now how he runs product at Vanta, this in-person episode with Jeremy Epling is a fun, informative...
Pick up the Left 4 Dead games for cheaper than a pack of gum in the new Steam sale that's all about zombies, and also vampires
Sink your teeth into some spooky classics.
A month after Electronic Arts mashed the brakes, WRC rally racing games are coming back with a 'complete reboot' under a new publisher
The first new WRC game published by Nacon is to arrive in 2027.
Alright, let’s try out comments
It’s probably been a decade since I’ve had comments on this site. I generally don’t like the idea of paying for a blog where I host comments I don’t write....
Saying No Could Be the Most Profitable Skill in Business (And Life)
Entrepreneurs are tempted by distractions masquerading as opportunities. Steve Jobs: Focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. Every distraction charges a 5X tax on your...
Poetic Methods II: Rhyme as a Focusing Device
Published on May 26, 2025 6:29 PM GMTAs promised in the previous instalment on meter, let’s explore rhyming from a methodological perspective.The first difference between meter and rhyme lies in...
Is Building Good Note-Taking Software an AGI-Complete Problem?
Published on May 26, 2025 6:26 PM GMTIn my experience, the most annoyingly unpleasant part of research[1] is reorganizing my notes during and (especially) after a productive research sprint. The...
Does the Universal Geometry of Embeddings paper have big implications for interpretability?
Published on May 26, 2025 6:20 PM GMTRishi Jha, Collin Zhang, Vitaly Shmatikov and John X. Morris published a new paper last week called Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings.Abstract...
Gabe Newell co-founded a neuroscience company in 2019 and its first brain chip is expected to ship later this year
It's very preliminary at this stage, but things are happening.
Threat Actors Targeting Your Supply Chain: What You Need to Know
Digitization boosts supply chains but invites cyber risks. Learn risks, real examples, and proactive strategies for a resilient ecosystem.
Socratic Persuasion: Giving Opinionated Yet Truth-Seeking Advice
Published on May 26, 2025 5:38 PM GMTThe full post is long, but you can 80/20 the value with the 700 word summary! Over half the post is eight optional...
An observation on self-play
Published on May 26, 2025 5:22 PM GMTAt NeurIPS 2024, Ilya Sutskever delivered a short keynote address in honor of his Seq2seq paper, published a decade earlier. It was his...
[Beneath Psychology] Case study on chronic pain: First insights, and the remaining challenge
Published on May 26, 2025 5:29 PM GMTIn the last post I took the seemingly-naive stance that "pain is just information" and "can't actually be a problem", implying that painful...
NetherRealm says it's done releasing major updates for Mortal Kombat 1: 'Our team … needs to shift focus to the next project'
Bug fixes and balance passes aside, the studio is moving on less than two years after the game's release.
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