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Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic…

In the 1980s, economist Julian Simon won his bet with biologist Paul Ehrlich on mineral prices. But what does the long-term data tell us about supply and demand for resources?

Explore how an 80s animal guessing game pioneered machine learning concepts, blending nostalgia with AI’s humble beginnings!

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Historically, general approaches always win in AI. Founders in AI application space now repeat the mistakes of AI researchers.

A typing game that's actually fun to play.

Members of the fledgling WordPress Sustainability Team have been left reeling after WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg abruptly dissolved the team this week—an action prominent tech journalist Kara Swisher has described as “bizarrely heinous behavior.”

Gantt charts with only Javanoscript, CSS, HTML and YAML - aerugo/simplegantt

Photo by Erik Karits, pixabay.com Rewilding the Self By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! W e are rapidly losing the natural world—the very foundation of our existence—and many of us...

How do you stash 18,000 keywords into a denoscription? Turns out it’s easy.

There's no reason I should exit vim just to watch a video

Why nextest runs each test in its own process: a game-theoretic view.

After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability…

At first, this article was going to be a grumbling about well-known ideas like: "Let's add support for objects in Bash instead of ObSoLeTe text and add support for images and GIFs in the commands' output."

I extolled the benefits of programming with invariants in a couple of recent posts.
Naturally, I didn't explain what I think when I write invariant. This post fixes that.