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by aanet 7mo ago
Acceleration in data center (real-estate) development through 2024 and 2025. From Paul Kedrosky: "Data center construction spending passed office spending for the first time in December 2025, crossing at roughly $3.5B monthly. Office c
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by aanet 7mo ago
Ah, of course, now Tim Roughgarden's books are available via offset printing. (My copies from a few years ago are print-on-demand, the poorer quality... hence the venting :-/ )
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by aanet 7mo ago
This post resonates with me. As a book-lover and collector, I prefer my books to be of high quality, long lasting, and beautiful to hold and look at. If I'm spending $ or $$$ on books, I want to get a good reading experience, and that
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by aanet 7mo ago
PDF: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10179-2.pdf Code: https://github.com/Google-Health/consumer-health-research/tr... From the abstract: "Here we present the WEAR-ME study,
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by aanet 7mo ago
Hand ‘em the IgNoble prize already
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How the Strait of Hormuz closure affects global oil supply(reuters.com)
11 points by aanet 8mo ago|2 comments
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by aanet 8mo ago
Beautiful dataviz and story from Reuters on how the closing of Strait of Hormuz affects the global oil supply.
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An Agent Skill that lets coding agents render rich interactive visuals(github.com)
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AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse – Daren Acemoglu
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by aanet 8mo ago
Ok, this post is excellent. How the Claude UI ~sausage~ magic is made. The whole workflow looks so easy in hindsight.
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by aanet 8mo ago
+1 The website is super useful. That theme though... low-contrast text on too-dark theme is, uh, barely readable for me.
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by aanet 8mo ago
This is utterly fascinating. The core paper is here [1], but the SciAm article says: "...around the 14th century, Indian mathematician Madhava of Sangamagrama provided the first exact formula, expressed as an infinite series—a sum of e
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Hustlers are cashing in on China's OpenClaw AI craze(technologyreview.com)
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Where is AI showing up in the productivity data?(ft.com)
2 points by aanet 8mo ago|1 comments
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by aanet 8mo ago
Interesting set of articles on FT.com about productivity gains due to AI. Podcast: [1] discussion b/w journalists Soumaya Keynes, John Burn-Murdoch and Sarah O'Connor Op-ed by Erik Brynjolfsson: "The AI productivity take-off
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by aanet 8mo ago
This is fantastic! I've been meaning to learn Spanish, and this looks super useful. Would love to learn more about your pipeline [selfishly, I was looking to build (free) ebooks -> audio for my own purposes as a side project] What w
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by aanet 8mo ago
Fantastic post. As a mechanical watch collector / enthusiast, I enjoyed reading this. When you say "phone mic" do you mean the embedded one, or an external one?
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by aanet 8mo ago
The best antidote to shit and slop on LI is to not engage with it at all. I know, I know, everyone is reacting to some or other error (true or perceived) on a post, but that itself is another form of engagement. The best thing is to let a p
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by aanet 8mo ago
Thanks. This is useful. Commenting so I come back to it later.
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by aanet 8mo ago
Too delightful. Like a reverse jenga tower you like to topple over. Of course, glad to see it was another @isohedral project.
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by aanet 8mo ago
Congrats on the launch. Useful. Would be useful to address the target audience upfront (Indian market) Also, the “try for free” implies a later pricing plan. Which is not exactly clear.
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by aanet 8mo ago
The voice samples sound fantastic The interruption handling is amazing. I felt you were talking to an actual person. It might have helped that he had a British accent :)
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A U.S. scholarship thrills a teacher in India. Then came soul-crushing questions(npr.org)
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:) Too true But tbh, it'll more likely be repairing those burger flippin' robots
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by aanet 8mo ago
^ This This is what a student, who truly wants to learn rather than simply complete a course / certification, would do... Use AI tools to explain + learn, but not outsource the learning process itself to the tools.
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The Looming AI Clownpocalypse(honnibal.dev)
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> AI Policy for the AI Course “ Students are permitted to use AI assistants for all homework and programming assignments (especially as a reference for understanding any topics that seem confusing), but we strongly encourage you to compl
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by aanet 8mo ago
Apropos of nothing in particular, back in the previous millennium, UNIX (and Linux) had the `fortune` command. It would spew out a "cookie" - a pithy one-/two-liner, usually funny, often thought-provoking, and sometimes offen
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by aanet 8mo ago
My ticket is complicated :-/
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by aanet 8mo ago
yeah, true... but then I'm not on social media^[1]. Gave up on those things way before social media fatigue became en vogue. I was just frustrated with the whole app experience. Some people had a smoother experience, which is fine. M

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