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by slwvx 5d ago
So did the Norwegian Wealth fund do the biggest flex of all, by investing in saving big Amazon rain forest trees?
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by slwvx 8d ago
If a compound will help with chemotherapy pain, won't it help w other pain? Is there something special w chemo pain?
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by slwvx 10d ago
> We should also be realistic and revolutionary, adopting this tried-and-tested principle – what I call “teach both, test both” – for AI now. Every subject, from history to English literature, should be divided in two: teach students to
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by slwvx 13d ago
I've seen JuliaHub taking credit for all of Julia before. I don't think there's anything new in this article
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by slwvx 18d ago
Makes me think of the short story "With friends like these..." by Alan Dean Foster, in which one aspect of the story has people on a future Earth living what appears externally to be a very simple (maybe hunter-gatherer) lifestyle
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by slwvx 20d ago
This is hosted by the Kansas City Fed [1] [2]. Do any of the other Fed banks feel jealous? Or pick fancy destinations to try to compete? [1] https://www.kansascityfed.org/research/jackson-hole-economic... [2] https:
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by slwvx 21d ago
> AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after abou
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by slwvx 22d ago
I am a fan of the NBA, but if LeBron and other stars start to regularly do hidden deals to avoid the salary cap, I'll drop it For context, Kawhi Leonard has been accused [1] of salary cap circumvention. When I saw this article, I thoug
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by slwvx 25d ago
In what way is the prof wrong? One can be arrogant and an asshole and still right
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by slwvx 25d ago
Numberphile has a video [1] on this that I found useful for context. The SF standard has an editorial [2] by the same woman that Numberphile interviewed which was discussed here at [3]. A non-paywalled version of the Bloomberg article is
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by slwvx 28d ago
Yes, the idea of a turn [1] is interesting. And maybe useful. I have a different question: What would it take for a compiler to remove (elide) the multiply by pi + divide by pi that the author uses as an example? I guess one would not have
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by slwvx 1mo ago
The brainpower in the Ethereum community is impressive. As is the effort to improve and move the core tech forward
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by slwvx 1mo ago
The next step is to add Tocharian to Babbel and Duolingo ;-)
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by slwvx 1mo ago
I was very happy to see an "AI use disclosure" right on the title page under the abstract. It's not clear if this is solely a possible theoretical result or if it has any practical value. I.e. is it only useful on lattices t
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by slwvx 1mo ago
> After doing a bit of research, we decided that the most common real world use cases of zero-knowledge proofs (age verification, crypto, etc) aren’t particularly interesting to us. Here are real-world uses that I find interesting: * Gun
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by slwvx 1mo ago
The move away from income taxes (typically progressive) to sales tax (inherently regressive) is a terrible step towards more economic inequality. This sort of regressive taxation is what the political right and left unified AGAINST 115 yea
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by slwvx 2mo ago
Don't tax trade, rather foreign capital gains. See https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/27/how-can-taxing-f...
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by slwvx 2mo ago
She has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Birman
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by slwvx 2mo ago
I guess "IR" is "intermediate representation" while "MLIR" [1] ("Multi-Level Intermediate Representation") is an IR from Chris Lattner/LLVM that is designed to be modular and extensible. For th
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by slwvx 2mo ago
I did not see _alternator_'s comment as asinine. I like a venue where people who have some expertise feel comfortable enough to share it, and are not criticized for doing so
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by slwvx 2mo ago
Great visualization! I'm no soccer/football expert, but it seems to me that the most common TV camera shots are from the sideline at midfield. The (effective) camera for these shots are from high above one corner of the field, an
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by slwvx 2mo ago
For Ingalls Wilder, see the following https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder#Political...
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by slwvx 2mo ago
That's an enjoyable read!
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by slwvx 2mo ago
Mark Twain is America's Homer One aspect of Huckleberry Finn (the novel) that I think is relevant today is the spectacularly stupid zero-sum conflict between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons. It seems relevant to the US's po
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by slwvx 2mo ago
Thanks!
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by slwvx 2mo ago
The title of the article says "Are Argentina being treated favourably at World Cup?", while the first sentence says "Argentina are throwing everything at the defence of their World Cup title..." Is the noun "Argent
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by slwvx 2mo ago
though the article doesn't say it in the abstract (and no where else I looked), SKA stands for "square kilometer array" and is a telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array
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by slwvx 3mo ago
zero-knowledge proofs are a well-known tool in cryptography [1]. All Google is sharing is the library to implement it. Google would not have access to the information any more than they have access to the bank info of people who use Andro
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by slwvx 3mo ago
mb go back and split this into multiple pull requests
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by slwvx 3mo ago
The URL above is wrong. At present it is https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articlehttps://www.bloomberg.... I guess it should be https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/

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