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Simon Willison: How AI is changing software development [audio](talkingpostgres.com)
2 points by skm 17d ago|0 comments
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The Origin of Consciousness (2008)(blog.plover.com)
64 points by skm 1mo ago|91 comments
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by skm 3mo ago
I remember reading this brilliant piece of reporting when it first came out. The author, Sarah Zhang, since wrote two more pieces for The Atlantic: May 2025: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/05
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The 'Wall' That Keeps Flesh-Eating Worms Out of America (2020)(theatlantic.com)
4 points by skm 3mo ago|1 comments
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by skm 4mo ago
> Many of the world’s leading researchers believe that A.I. will soon be powerful enough to improve itself with little or no help from human developers. > “A.I. is code. And now, A.I. can code,” a veteran researcher, Richard Socher, s
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Recursive Superintelligence – 6 months old and valued at $4 billion(nytimes.com)
3 points by skm 4mo ago|1 comments
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Toxicity on Social Media(thenoisyroom.com)
162 points by skm 4mo ago|129 comments
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by skm 1y ago
Marc Andreessen would beg to differ :) On a recent a16z podcast, Andreessen said: “It's possible that [being a VC] is quite literally timeless, and when the AIs are doing everything else, that may be one of the last remaining fields th
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Schools spending billions on tech caused worsening social skills and test scores(bloomberg.com)
3 points by skm 2y ago|1 comments
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by skm 2y ago
The author is Leif Wenar, Professor of Philosophy (as well as Humanities, Political Science, and Law) at Stanford. He’s the author of the book Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World (about which Peter Singer wrote: “
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The Deaths of Effective Altruism(wired.com)
4 points by skm 2y ago|2 comments
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The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002)(joelonsoftware.com)
110 points by skm 3y ago|85 comments
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Khan Academy's AI tutor Khanmigo struggles with basic math(wsj.com)
3 points by skm 3y ago|0 comments
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Children spent a global average of 112 minutes daily on TikTok in 2023(techcrunch.com)
2 points by skm 3y ago|1 comments
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by skm 3y ago
(2015) According to web.archive.org this is from Nov 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20151108010026/https://playbook....
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Aaron Swartz: 7 Essays on Getting Better at Life (2012)(aaronsw.com)
35 points by skm 5y ago|2 comments
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Software Engineer Career Paths(about.sourcegraph.com)
1 points by skm 6y ago|0 comments
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Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (2017)(newyorker.com)
116 points by skm 6y ago|122 comments
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America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms(theatlantic.com)
227 points by skm 6y ago|39 comments
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Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006(tablix.org)
396 points by skm 7y ago|161 comments
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A short history of Facebook's privacy practices (2017)(salimvirani.com)
1 points by skm 8y ago|0 comments
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by skm 9y ago
If you're on a Mac, you can find the exact processor model number by opening Terminal.app and entering sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string this will return something like Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4650U CPU @ 1.70GHz (Found on
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by skm 11y ago
Don Stewart has given possibly the best answer to this question on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6398996/good-haskell-sour...
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by skm 12y ago
@liuliu - in the last graph, there's quite a jump from epoch 26 to 27. I'm curious to find out what might be causing this.
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by skm 15y ago
According to the reporter, this abandoned theme park is a harbinger of doom for China's economy. But couldn't it instead be viewed as evidence of entrepreneurial risk-taking activity? Taking risks, by definition, involves projects that don'
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by skm 15y ago
The threat of prison is supposed to make people more likely to pay back their debts.
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by skm 15y ago
Steelcase makes motorized desks. Joel Spolsky uses them at Fog Creek. His article on them is here (with links to steelcase) http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/06/06.html
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by skm 15y ago
Is it just me, or does this look uncomfortably similar to the celebrated iA3 template for wordpress, designed by Information Architects? http://store.informationarchitects.jp/product/ia³-template http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/10
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by skm 15y ago
Yes! 1. Steve Jobs studied calligraphy. At the Stanford commencement address he said: "I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between
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by skm 15y ago
I vote to remedy imbalances: valuable && low points => upvote valuable && high points => read, no need to upvote Does anyone else do this?

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