lr0
Fri Aug 11, 2023 7:51pm PST
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about
I’m interested in the following fields: computer programming, cognitive science, linguistics, history, scientific socialism, propaganda and media studies, moral philosophy and p̶h̶i̶l̶o̶s̶o̶p̶h̶y̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶m̶i̶n̶d̶, Islamic philosophy, Islamic biographical evaluation and modern Takhrij studies. I’ve developed a growing interest in the following fields: chemistry and economics. Other interests are implied in my reading list: https://larr.net/fullbooks.html

You can find me at lr0 [ @ ] gmx [ dot ] com and on Twitter @larrasket

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 8:44am PST
Your iPhone is about to get uglier
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Mon Jun 9, 2025 11:21am PST
Harvard. Graduate Economic Theory Exam. April 1960
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Sun Jun 8, 2025 8:45pm PST
We’re secretly winning the war on cancer
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Sat Jun 7, 2025 4:12pm PST
After Pornhub left France, this VPN saw a 1,000% surge in signups in 30 minutes
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AI can now stalk you with just a single vacation photo
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Fri Jun 6, 2025 6:35pm PST
String theory is not dead
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Tues Jun 3, 2025 4:16pm PST
AI startup backed by Microsoft revealed to be 700 Indian Employees faking AI
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Sun Jun 1, 2025 8:29pm PST
Carbon footprint from Israel's war on Gaza exceeds 100 countries
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Mon May 26, 2025 10:54pm PST
Most leading chatbots routinely exaggerate science findings
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This article won’t change your mind
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Mon May 26, 2025 11:38am PST
AI Sandbagging
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Mon May 26, 2025 11:34am PST
TIL: timeout in Bash scripts
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Mon May 26, 2025 11:28am PST
Study finds a 50% decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades
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Fri May 23, 2025 1:31am PST
Should I teach my kids to use AI?
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Fri May 9, 2025 6:52pm PST
You've Never Seen Copyright
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Fri May 2, 2025 6:50pm PST
Securing America's Compute Advantage: Anthropic's Position on the Diffusion Rule
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Thurs May 1, 2025 6:53pm PST
Looking at my time data from 2012 to 2025
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Sat Apr 26, 2025 7:17pm PST
Who should control OpenAI?
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Wed Apr 9, 2025 8:21pm PST
How to Remember Everything You Read
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Fri Apr 4, 2025 10:21pm PST
Watching TV Makes You Smarter (2005)
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Fri Apr 4, 2025 10:02pm PST
GPLv2 is not impressed by Git
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Tues Apr 1, 2025 9:52pm PST
Can you make yourself smarter? (2012)
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Tues Apr 1, 2025 2:43pm PST
Trials and Visions of Internet Relay Chat
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Mon Mar 31, 2025 11:17pm PST
Trump is making Europe great again
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Mon Mar 31, 2025 11:17pm PST
Are China, Canada, and Mexico to blame for fentanyl?
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Mon Mar 31, 2025 3:48am PST
Moving 18 years of comments out of Disqus and into my 11ty static site
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Fri Mar 21, 2025 3:48pm PST
This is bad
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Tues Mar 18, 2025 10:36pm PST
Quantum Musical Physics: Exploring the Impact of Music on Consciousness
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Sun Mar 16, 2025 11:00pm PST
Contracts for C
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Sun Mar 16, 2025 10:53pm PST
America's (lack of) separation between church and state
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Mon Mar 10, 2025 3:55pm PST
Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure
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Fri Mar 7, 2025 5:56pm PST
MAUI is a scam
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Sat Mar 1, 2025 1:23am PST
Who needs weather reports anyway?
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Sat Mar 1, 2025 1:22am PST
The AI that apparently wants Elon Musk to die
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Wed Feb 26, 2025 9:15pm PST
Why legacy .NET projects fail
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Wed Feb 26, 2025 9:11pm PST
SQLite is learnable
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Wed Feb 26, 2025 9:09pm PST
Too many men lack close friendships
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Sat Feb 22, 2025 9:20pm PST
Neocolonial Minecraft
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Sat Feb 22, 2025 9:17pm PST
Is ignorance truly bliss?
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Fri Feb 14, 2025 10:48pm PST
Transhumanism is the future for a safe AI
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Fri Feb 14, 2025 10:47pm PST
What makes a map "good"?
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Sat Feb 8, 2025 5:59am PST
The iPhone Threat to Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, Real, Brew, Symbian (2007)
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Wed Jan 29, 2025 1:55am PST
LLMs misunderstand some people more than others
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Sun Jan 26, 2025 12:35am PST
The European Union fined itself 400 euros for violating its own data privacy law
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Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:06am PST
Ideas are not property
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Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:25pm PST
Google is allowing advertisers to fingerprint you
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Wed Jan 15, 2025 3:17pm PST
WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
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Your brain is lying to you about the “good old days”
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Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:57pm PST
89% of 2024 sexual offences in England went unsolve
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Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:22pm PST
The imperfections of murder drones
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Sat Jan 4, 2025 9:31am PST
I deleted all my tweets
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Sat Jan 4, 2025 9:10am PST
The Charles Dickens Gallery
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Wed Jan 1, 2025 10:12am PST
Are 90% of academic papers never cited?
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Wed Jan 1, 2025 9:18am PST
How much is my paper worth?
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Mon Dec 30, 2024 2:25am PST
old Google
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Sun Dec 29, 2024 12:17pm PST
Why I don't do Domain Driven Design (2018)
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Providing decent living for 8B people requires only 30% of current resources use
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Sat Dec 28, 2024 7:11am PST
LLMs are everything that it wrong in computing
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How can Europe build its first trillion dollar startup?
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Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:15am PST
Aalto University to launch historic archive of Nokia's design evolution
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Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:10am PST
A bakery still using Commodore 64s originally released in 1982 as cash registers
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Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide
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Believing in Santa does not inspire your kids to be good for goodness' sake
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Ghost Engineers
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The Computational Web
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Tues Dec 17, 2024 11:17pm PST
If you think you are 'just not a math person' then think again
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Tues Dec 17, 2024 11:11pm PST
Noam Chomsky at 96
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Sun Dec 15, 2024 10:56pm PST
Insurance analytics: prediction, explainability and fairness
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Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:16pm PST
Creating embedded interactive physics simulations from static textbook diagrams
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Wed Dec 11, 2024 2:06am PST
Science could solve biggest problems. Why aren't governments using it?
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Wed Dec 11, 2024 2:05am PST
Global plastic talks collapse
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Wed Dec 11, 2024 1:54am PST
Is Healthcare a Human Right?
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Tues Dec 10, 2024 12:29am PST
How marijuana legalization played itself
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What does "working class" even mean?
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Sun Dec 8, 2024 4:16pm PST
The deep roots of Americans' hatred of their health care system
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My PhD Pursuit
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Climate change alone could kill off more than a hundred thousand species
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