2025-04-17
China’s New CH-7 Stealth Drone Has the U.S. Military Asking Hard Questions
Summary and Key Points: China’s CH-7 drone, developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, is a stealthy, long-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed to rival the US Navy’s...
The LA Times gives mealy-mouthed AI the last word on its opinion pieces
Is it raining? Yes—and also no.
About those stories of the detection of a possible molecular signature of...
About those stories of the detection of a possible molecular signature of life on a distant planet: the molecule they are talking about can also arise without life. “That’s a...
How worker co-ops can help restore social trust
Published on April 17, 2025 2:14 PM GMTThe US is experiencing a great decline in trust. According to the US General Social Survey, people who agreed with the statement "most...
Forget the SR-71 Darkstar: The SR-91 Aurora ‘Might’ Have Hit Mach 6
Summary and Key Points: Rumors of America’s hypersonic spy plane, the SR-91 Aurora, have intrigued aviation enthusiasts for decades, yet evidence strongly suggests it never existed. -Budget references in the...
James Webb Spots Signs of Life on Nearby Planet
Astronomers say they've spotted a possible sign of life in the atmosphere of K2-18b, an exoplanet some 124 light-years away, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. As detailed in a...
Tempest Rising review
Tempest Rising is a rollicking RTS just like mama Westwood used to make.
Tempopo review
Tempopo is great, but could use something a little more.
China Big Missile Arsenal Is Designed for War with the U.S. Military
Summary and Key Points: China’s expanding arsenal of medium and intermediate-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs/IRBMs), like the Dongfeng series, poses a significant threat to US and allied forces in the Indo-Pacific....
Who has time for due process these days?
The Vice President of the United States on Twitter:To say the administration must observe "due process" is to beg the question: what process is due is a function of our...
Leclerc Evolution: France’s New Main Battle Tank Is Coming Soon
The Leclerc Main Battle Tank (MBT) has been a mainstay in the French Army since it entered service in 1992. Although it has never seen combat, the Leclerc has a...
“AI discovered wholly new proteins before it could count the ‘r’s in...
“AI discovered wholly new proteins before it could count the ‘r’s in ‘strawberry’, which makes it neither vaporware nor a demigod but a secret third thing.”
What Makes the SR-72 Darkstar Better Than the SR-71 Blackbird
Why the SR-72 will be far superior to the SR-71: Lockheed Martin’s super-secretive Skunk Works is actively working on a super-secretive aircraft, the SR-72 Darkstar. And despite going over budget...
Spending More to Get Less Is Good?
Brian X. Chen, in a column at The New York Times headlined “Why a Tariff-Inflated $2,000 iPhone Is Nothing to Fear”: Don’t panic. Even if tariffs did cause the iPhone’s...
OpenAI Is Secretly Building a Social Network
Picture this: a social network, populated mainly by AI bros. Sound like the place to hang? We ask because OpenAI has been secretly building its own social media platform which,...
Staff+ self-onboarding questions
Useful questions to get a head start as a newly hired Staff, Principal, or Distinguished engineer
Get into 4K gaming with this 27-inch IPS monitor, now $330 or 0.004 cents per pixel if you prefer
Once you've switched to 4K, every other resolution just seems too blurry.
xAI’s Grok 3: All the GPUs, None of the Breakthroughs
Elon claimed Grok 3 was the world's best AI. Two months later, how does it really stack up against GPT-4o, Claude 3.7 & Gemini 2.5?
Extending Direct Nash Optimization for Regularized Preferences
This section presents an extension of the Direct Nash Optimization (DNO) framework for handling regularized preferences. The key difference between SPO and Nash-MD lies in the use of smoothed policies...
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