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1960: The Year of Africa

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The 12" chef knife, a humble plea

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Prisim Optical Connectomics [video]

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Invariance, Equivariance, and Factorization

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I'll probably never use Windows

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Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework

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How to Kill a Commune in 8 Easy Steps

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Review: Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert Heinlein

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A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer

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When the Robots Take Your Job (2024)

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AI Minus Vagina

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Ordered Dithering with Arbitrary or Irregular Colour Palettes (2023)

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Worse than kids stomping that pig's bladder (2023)

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Features of Fully-Fledged card systems (2017)

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Stop Complying

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Changing Minds: How Academic Fields Shape Political Attitudes

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Methods in Languages for Systems Programming (2023)

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Steinar H. Gunderson

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It's Not About Modality, It's About Scale

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Bodycount Impacts Relationships (graph dump)

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The Pain and the Glory of Nonmonogamy

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The Costs of Reliability (2019)

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Textile-Based Electrochemical Sensors

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Three Modes of Cognition

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A Zeckendorf Table

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How much of HN is AI?

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Pairing data with APIs to unlock customer value

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Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection

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Go in 9×9 is Awesome

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Work hard vs. play hard (2024)

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Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs

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