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by cdwhite 3mo ago
WSJ article (paywalled): https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-halts-access-to-top-ai... . The accessible portion mentions a letter from Howard Lutnick.
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by cdwhite 3mo ago
WSJ article (paywalled): https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-halts-access-to-top-ai... . The accessible portion mentions a letter from Howard Lutnick
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by cdwhite 3mo ago
Are there any statements from figures in the US Government? A Truth Social post? X posts from, idk, David Sacks?
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by cdwhite 6mo ago
Vox Day may be a familiar name to folks who were paying attention to the SF / fantasy world tenish years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Day
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by cdwhite 7mo ago
What happens if somebody (maybe anthropic!) uses Claude Code Security to find & fix a vulnerability in some piece of open-source software---openssh, linux kernel, that sort of thing? Can the DoW use the resulting fix?
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by cdwhite 8mo ago
I want so badly to try and talk you into flying gliders, because it's amazing : way, way more fun (IMO) than the overwhelming majority of the power flying you can do as a civilian. And there are people who make it work! But ... probab
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by cdwhite 8mo ago
> That's all to say, that I doubt money is as big of an obstacle to getting started in this as you imagine if you prioritized it. Very much the case! (Well, idk quite what gp imagined, but it's not as expensive as many things.)
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by cdwhite 2y ago
2018, FWIW. I'd be curious to hear how (if) things are different now.
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Majorization: Here, There and Everywhere(arxiv.org)
1 points by cdwhite 2y ago|0 comments
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by cdwhite 3y ago
In relatively recent versions of Anki, you can create nested Cloze deletions: "{{c3::{{c1::foo}}{{c2::bar}}}}" will show you cards "[...]bar", "foo[...]", and "[...]", in that order, all with answers
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Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not?(eukaryotewritesblog.com)
4 points by cdwhite 3y ago|0 comments
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Searching for Xuanzang(andrewbatson.com)
1 points by cdwhite 3y ago|0 comments
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NLab: The Category Theory Wiki(ncatlab.org)
1 points by cdwhite 3y ago|0 comments
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The F-15 Eagle: Origins and Development, 1964-1972 [pdf](media.defense.gov)
115 points by cdwhite 3y ago|106 comments
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by cdwhite 4y ago
I think that's customary at LessWrong, more or less---if folks write something that's of interest to the community, they'll double-post, blog and forum. Likewise things get cross-posted to the EA forum and maybe other places.
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Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know (2022)(lesswrong.com)
191 points by cdwhite 4y ago|81 comments
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What does “excess liquidity sloshing around the financial system” mean?(renormalizetheworld.wordpress.com)
134 points by cdwhite 4y ago|143 comments
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Medium-density amorphous ice(science.org)
1 points by cdwhite 4y ago|0 comments
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Some Reasons to Measure(danluu.com)
201 points by cdwhite 5y ago|17 comments
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One Lost Methyl Group = Huge Amounts of Food Production(blogs.sciencemag.org)
46 points by cdwhite 5y ago|7 comments
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by cdwhite 7y ago
Yes! My last year in grad school, this is part of how I kept my sanity: random little side-projects on which I could make concrete progress in a couple of evenings.
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by cdwhite 11y ago
Well, to be fair, you actually also have to put in some numbers, too: masses, mixing angles, coupling constants, and the Higgs vacuum expectation value. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model#Construction_of.
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by cdwhite 12y ago
I'm curious about his use of Runge-Kutta. IANA numerical methods expert, but it seems like this is exactly what symplectic integrators ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic_integrator ) are for. Looks like he g
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by cdwhite 12y ago
A related previous article: "NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration" ( http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/nasa-study-p... ). Discussion: https://news.ycomb
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Design of a Social Messaging System Using Stateful Multicast(gnunet.org)
2 points by cdwhite 12y ago|0 comments
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by cdwhite 12y ago
It's not clear to me how these warrants are "automatic". FTAmendments: "a magistrate judge [...] has authority to issue a warrant to use remote access to search electronic storage media [...]" (emphasis mine) IANA
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A350 XWB formation flying(cameras.reviewed.com)
2 points by cdwhite 12y ago|0 comments
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by cdwhite 12y ago
Seconded. I'd note that while Johnson's memoir (/Kelly/) is more inspiring, I recall there being more meat in Rich's memoir (/Skunk Works/)---more discussion of the technology, organizational dynamics, and
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by cdwhite 12y ago
Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache%... (I couldn't get to the original; I suppose the site is attracting an entirely deserved flood of attention.)
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by cdwhite 12y ago
As a counterpoint, I have a hard time keeping my focus for more than 45 min. 90-min classes, which I've been having for a good five years now, can be killers. This is even more true when I'm working on my own: it requires a subs

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