Monthly Highlights
8161.
Guess I'm a Rationalist Now (scottaaronson.blog)
8162.
Of Markets and Marriages: Review of Recent Work on the Causes of US Poverty (aeaweb.org)
8163.
Sizing Up Sizewell C (thecritic.co.uk)
8164.
Correcting the Record: Responses to the May 30 2025 NY Times Article on Palantir (blog.palantir.com)
8165.
Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference? (nature.com)
8166.
The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB dataset of public domain and openly licensed text (arxiv.org)
8167.
Optimizing tea: An N=4 experiment (dynomight.net)
8168.
Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want in new report (theguardian.com)
8169.
AMA with co-founder of SigNoz – open-source alternative to Datadog (old.reddit.com)
8170.
The Most Ethical AI (gizvault.com)
8171.
First view of the Sun's South Pole filmed by spacecraft (bbc.com)
8172.
8173.
The Psychedelic Inspiration for HyperCard – Mondo 2000 (mondo2000.com)
8174.
Senate response to White House budget for NASA: Keep SLS, Nix science (arstechnica.com)
8175.
Repairing Yudkowsky's anti-zombie argument (lesswrong.com)
8176.
5 Years, 160 Comments, and the Vulnerability That Refused to Die (infosecwriteups.com)
8177.
From Scratch GPT Built with NumPy (Tokenizer, Model, Adam) (github.com)
8178.
SimpleX – messaging network operating without user identifiers (github.com)
8179.
An Existential Crisis at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (nrdc.org)
8180.
Nobody Expected the MAGA Inquisition – Paul Krugman (paulkrugman.substack.com)
8181.
Dia – The AI Browser (diabrowser.com)
8182.
Wizard - DuckDB extension for natural language and javascript in SQL queries (github.com)
8183.
When was peak message in a bottle? (interconnected.org)
8184.
S3 support for Conda packages in Pixi (prefix.dev)
8185.
Coding LLMs from the Ground Up: A Complete Course (sebastianraschka.com)
8186.
A 20-minute intro to complex numbers (lcamtuf.substack.com)
8187.
Silicon Valley execs to join the Army as officers (gizmodo.com)
8188.
Hong Kong Bans Taiwanese Video Game for Promoting 'Armed Revolution' (nytimes.com)
8189.
AI headshot generator – an honest review (laurentiu-raducu.medium.com)
8190.
Mistral Compute (mistral.ai)