2025-05-26
The U.S. Navy Could Build Powerful ‘Stealth Diesel Submarines’
Key Points – Despite pioneering and long dominating nuclear-powered submarine technology, the US Navy could reconsider the acquisition of cheaper diesel-electric submarines (SSKs). -This shift is driven by evolving global...
Parries and timed blocks are the future of action games—and they've got a place in turn-based RPGs like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, too
Choose the right moment, and you can topple gods.
This Memorial Day MSI gaming laptop deal for $770 is as cheap as RTX 4060 mobile gaming gets
8-core AMD CPU, 144 Hz IPS screen, 1 TB SSD and 16 GB of RAM.
On 'On Caring'
Published on May 26, 2025 1:39 PM GMTThanks to Jacob G-W, Sophia Lloyd George, Ariana Azarbal, and Jo Jiao for reading through / commenting on a draft. All opinions, and...
Rise of the Toligarchs
No Mercy / No MaliceThe 0.1% have insulated themselves from the general public with their own schools, health care, transportation, security, and justice system. The members of this rarefied class...
Bitcoin is cool and all but war? War never changes.
Bitcoin is cool and all but war? War never changes.
Astute-Class Submarine Is ‘Armed to the Teeth’ and ‘Stealth as a Dolphin’
Key Points – Designed for both stealth and special operations, the Astute-class boasts a “lock-out-trunk” for deploying special forces. -With a planned fleet of seven, these submarines represent a significant...
Claude 4 You: The Quest for Mundane Utility
Published on May 26, 2025 1:01 PM GMTHow good are Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4? They’re good models, sir. If you don’t care about price or speed, Opus...
The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site
The site, starwarsweb.net, was a covert CIA communications tool. It has pictures of Yoda and C-3PO on it.
PA-Ng: France Has Big Plans for a New ‘Nuclear’ Aircraft Carrier
Key Points – France’s commitment to its next-generation aircraft carrier (PA-Ng), slated for 2038 service with construction beginning around 2031, is crucial despite its expense, especially given the current European...
Oblivion Remastered is great and all, but Morrowind remains the Bethesda RPG that I could play forever
Vvardenfalling in love again.
Formalizing Embeddedness Failures in Universal Artificial Intelligence
Published on May 26, 2025 12:36 PM GMTAIXI is a dualistic agent that can't work as an embedded agent... right? I couldn't find a solid formal proof of this claim,...
Did This Game Kill Three People?
Head to https://squarespace.com/nostalgianerd to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NOSTALGIANERD ~ Berzerk, an arcade game designed by Stern Electronics, was apparently responsible...
China’s Navy Plans to Have a Fleet of 6 Aircraft Carriers
Key Points – China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is rapidly expanding its aircraft carrier fleet, aiming for six carriers by the early 2030s to become the world’s second-largest carrier...
It turns out the gigantic rats you have to kill in so many RPG quests are totally real, and now I need to apologise to RPG designers
But we still shouldn't be squishing them, because they are adorable.
Snag yourself an RTX 4060 gaming PC for a whisker under $800 with this nifty Memorial Day deal
Sometimes a lack of progress isn't all bad news.
Formalizing Human Concepts
Published on May 26, 2025 11:45 AM GMTWhen thinking about neural network generalization, I want to be able to refer to "simple" concepts. But what do I mean by simple?One...
LightCap Framework: Lightweight Components for Efficient Image Captioning on Edge Devices
LightCap uses CLIP’s grid features, a visual concept extractor, cross-modal modulator, TinyBERT fusion, and ensemble heads for efficient captioning.
How Windsurf stays lean
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