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import SourceSnippet from '../../components/mdx/SourceSnippet.astro'; # Paperclipmaxxing ## Paperclip Maximizers Paperclip maximizers come from a thought experiment by Nick Bostrom as a way to warn of one failure path of AI alignment The...
Ads on Apple Maps — that’s what was missing! But the best part is: The idea is that these ads will give businesses a way to connect with users that engage with Maps in real time as they search for and explore nearby places such as...
I’m back on the TWiT podcast this Sunday! As usual, it will livestream at 5 p.m. Eastern / 2 p.m. Pacific / 2100 UTC, and you can always catch the recorded version on YouTube on Monday on the This Week in Tech YouTube channel. This will...
Today marks 39 years my lovely bride has put up with me. I’m very grateful and love her more now than ever. ❤️
The old God shot, taken from a car window.
We were lost in Tianjin. Not in translation—just lost. The post Lost in Tianjin (Not in Translation) first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.
Easily the best show I've seen at the Fringe. For plot-related reasons, a television company asks a literary genius to create a "pro-weapons sitcom". It is a fast paced mix of the sitcoms 2012 and Episodes. The jokes come at a steady...
Looking a small dying dog in the eye
We develop a formula for counting the number of bags of length \(l\) containing \(d\) distinct elements drawn from \(t\) objects. The formula involves multiplication of combinations without replacement and combinations with replacement....
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 73-74: Politically, most of the country was quiet for the first years of martial law. Local politicians were...
We started the alpha about four weeks ago, but almost all of that time has been devoted to getting set up and preparing ourselves to do research and testing. In an alpha, it can feel like you’re not making progress if you’re not shaping...
Word of Honor is a popular wuxia Chinese Drama from 2021. It’s based on the novel Faraway Wanderers by Priest and is basically a boy’s love (BL) story disguised as a bromance. It follows Zhou Zishu a former spy master/ assassin after he...
A New Yorker piece by Shayla Love looks at the consequences of our increasing dependence on GPS. It’s nominally about Katherine Dunn’s new book, Little Blue Dot (previously), but it’s one of those pieces that… More
Tension. Tense. Expectations. Expectations of what should be but it’s not. Or hope, maybe? Feelings. Sadness. Insecurity. Self consciousness. Judgement. Jarring. Non-belonging. Change. Changed. For so long things were the same. Now they...
I wanted to recommend two artists whose work now features prominently in my house which I’ve recently been having redecorated room by room. One of the aspects I really wanted to freshen up were the wall hanging pictures. Previously there...