a very short book about copying

What were the binding constraints on a Roman Industrial Revolution?

Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern

Marathon Petroleum, explained in a company periodical nearly 50 years ago that global temperature rise potentially linked to “industrial expansion” could one day cause “widespread starvation and other social and economic calamities”

Seiko Had A Smartwatch In 1984

Rainfall is down 40% since 2003 and experts predict a third of Sicily will be desert by 2030

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LLM evaluation is a minefield, and it turns out that agent evaluation has a bunch of additional pitfalls

I just listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. As music, it’s good. As art, it’s truly great

Global spending on nuclear weapons is estimated to have increased by 13% to a record $91.4bn during 2023

Incredible. Was ich an Strom zahle für meine eigene Wohnung, zahlen die hierzulande alleine für Unterhaltung durch Streaming. WTF.

800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online designer shops apparently operated from China

The Argentinian’s afterlife – a horror story of allegations and legal wrangles – has taken another turn

Game Boy at 35: a portal to other magical worlds: The handheld console introduced millions to the joy of video games, and remains one of the best-selling consoles ever

Working on problems in the order I noticed them is rarely the most effective order. So the WTF Notebook gives me a place to park the impulse to fix it now, damn it! until I have more context for deciding what to work on first

A loophole allows the government to use foreign intelligence authorities for domestic surveillance

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Intercept stellt mal wieder die wirklich wichtigen Fragen 💪

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Those born after 1995, argues Jonathan Haidt in his new book, were the first people in history to go through puberty with a portal to an alternative universe in their pockets – and the toll this has taken on their wellbeing has been devastating