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Notes from a Sun Tzu Skeptic (2019)

Link: thestrategybridge.org/the-brid…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…


Notes from a Sun Tzu Skeptic

The mischaracterization of Sun Tzu as a metonymy for all Chinese strategic wisdom, past, present, and future, grossly distorts the text’s importance and provides unrealistic expectations of what The Art of War can reasonably offer the modern strategi…
John F. Sullivan (The Strategy Bridge)

mastodon - Link to source

We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible

Link: awesomekling.substack.com/p/ho…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…


How we're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible

“How is the SerenityOS team making such good progress on building their Ladybird browser, when we've heard for years that it’s impossible”? I've seen this question a few times on sites like Hacker News and Reddit, and I thought I’d offer my own perso…
Andreas Kling

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Roger Penrose claims our Universe has been through multiple Big Bangs

Link: bigthink.com/hard-science/blac…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…


Controversial claim from Nobel Prize winner: The universe keeps dying and being reborn

Sir Roger Penrose claims our Universe has been through multiple Big Bangs, with more coming — a claim that is not widely accepted within the cosmology community.
Paul Ratner (Big Think)

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Previously unknown isotope of uranium discovered

Link: phys.org/news/2023-04-previous…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…


Previously unknown isotope of uranium discovered

A team of nuclear physicists affiliated with multiple institutions in Japan, working with a colleague from Korea, has discovered a previously unknown uranium isotope with atomic number 92 and mass 241.
Bob Yirka (Phys.org)

pleroma - Link to source

Thread: /x/34520238

>should it always be hidden?
Nah. By definition it IS hidden. Just because the knowledge is in plain sight doesn't mean the understanding of it is as well. It will just sound like nice little moral stories to those not in the 'know'.

/x/ - Do the people deserve occult and esoteric knowledg - Paranormal - 4chan

Do the people deserve occult and esoteric knowledge, or should it always be hidden? The masses are p... - "/x/ - Paranormal" is 4chan's imageboard for the discussion of paranormal, spooky pictures and conspiracy theories.
boards.4channel.org

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Thread: /x/34524823
Besides writing down dreams, what can one write in a journal? Thoughts, ideas, practices, spells? I really want to start one but I don’t know where to start and I feel overwhelmed.

/x/ - How do I keep an /x/-approved journal/notebook? - Paranormal - 4chan

How do I keep an /x/-approved journal/notebook? - "/x/ - Paranormal" is 4chan's imageboard for the discussion of paranormal, spooky pictures and conspiracy theories.
boards.4channel.org

mastodon - Link to source

Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…


Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior

Believable proxies of human behavior can empower interactive applications ranging from immersive environments to rehearsal spaces for interpersonal communication to prototyping tools.
arXiv.org

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Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution: study

Link: news.mit.edu/2023/study-shutti…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…


Study: Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution

An MIT study shows that if U.S. nuclear power plants are retired, the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas to fill the energy gap could cause more than 5,000 premature deaths.
MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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If you’ve raised venture capital, you have to pay yourself

Link: techcrunch.com/2023/04/09/f-yo…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…


If you've raised venture capital, you have to pay yourself | TechCrunch

Why you should tell investors who don't want you to pay yourself to roll up their term sheet tight and archive it into the cabinet that sees no sunlight.
Haje Jan Kamps (TechCrunch)

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Teaching ChatGPT to Speak My Son’s Invented Language

Link: szopa.medium.com/teaching-chat…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…


Teaching ChatGPT to Speak my Son’s Invented Language

When I was a kid, I used to invent languages. I thought myself rather lonely in this pastime, but now I know I was far from alone. A very prolific language inventor was JRR Tolkien, the author of The…
Ryszard Szopa (Medium)

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Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?

Link: denyslinkov.medium.com/why-is-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…


Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?

Chat GPT has taken the world by storm and has re-ignited interest in Large Language Models (LLMs). While Chat GPT is free as a demo, models that are ready for general use like GPT-3 charge by usage…
Denys Linkov (Medium)

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What I've Learned About Formal Methods in Half a Year

Link: jakob.space/blog/what-ive-lear…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…

What I've Learned About Formal Methods In Half a Year — Jakob's Personal Webpage

I started working on my master's degree last September. The goal was to return to my workplace as a domain expert in formal methods – a topic I knew I was interested in, and yet something I knew practically nothing about.
jakob.space

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The biggest EV battery recycling plant in the US is open for business

Link: canarymedia.com/articles/recyc…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…


The biggest EV battery recycling plant in the US is open for business

Ascend Elements’ new recycling plant in Covington, Georgia is processing used lithium-ion batteries and manufacturing scrap into useful materials for the clean energy transition.
Canary Media

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Zoomable, animated scatterplots in the browser that scales over a billion points

Link: github.com/nomic-ai/deepscatte…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…


GitHub - nomic-ai/deepscatter: Zoomable, animated scatterplots in the browser that scales over a billion points

Zoomable, animated scatterplots in the browser that scales over a billion points - GitHub - nomic-ai/deepscatter: Zoomable, animated scatterplots in the browser that scales over a billion points
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