marojejian

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by marojejian 5mo ago
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/opinion/voting-gerrymande... Every system has its tradeoffs. But I am sold on the idea that our current one is a major contributor to the degradation of our
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Microsoft releases search engine for use by ML agents(searchengineland.com)
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by marojejian 5mo ago
Sure, I get that API's are an essential thing. Nevertheless, I feel uncomfortable when we are entering an era when the software we design is more for use by machines than by humans.
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by marojejian 5mo ago
Your phone can use tiny skin-color changes to measure your heart rate, measuring your face when you unlock it. good to within 5 beats per minute. it also estimates its confidence of each measurement, and throws them away when too low.
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Your phone can use tiny skin-color changes to measure your heart rate(nature.com)
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by marojejian 5mo ago
paper: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10359 also: >the material record offers indirect evidence for distributed authority. Indus seals, small stone stamps that likely facilitated exchange and credit, were found
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4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time(archaeologymag.com)
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Pigeons navigate using magnetic sensors in their livers(phys.org)
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The Golden Age of Asking Questions(dropbox.com)
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"Save Our Bacon" provision substantial setback for animal rights(nytimes.com)
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by marojejian 5mo ago
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/opinion/pigs-farm-bill-me...
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GPT 5.5 aces 20x20 multiplication that o3 couldn't handle(twitter.com)
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by marojejian 5mo ago
Tremendous progress in a year. While these foundation models aren't trying to be calculators, this kind of test previously provided a decent benchmark on their ability to scale composing iterative reasoning steps, and showed they were
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Inequality Fell as (Bronze Age) Mohenjo-Daro Grew(anthropology.net)
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by marojejian 5mo ago
paper: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10359 also: >the material record offers indirect evidence for distributed authority. Indus seals, small stone stamps that likely facilitated exchange and credit, were found p
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Why T. Rex had tiny arms(nautil.us)
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AI super-apps are remaking China's internet(economist.com)
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by marojejian 5mo ago
archive https://archive.is/9iUDH what I found most interesting here is that it fleshed out for me the future where dedicated devices are designed to do everything on your behalf, in ways that are fundamentally non-transpare
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by marojejian 5mo ago
Interesting points in here. e.g. that Godel didn't think this scrapped Hilbert's project totally: >Gödel believed that it was possible to redefine what we mean by a formal mathematical framework, or allow for alternative framew
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China wants more robots but not fewer workers(economist.com)
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by marojejian 5mo ago
archive: https://archive.is/V1OIP Most interesting here are the stats on how quickly china is rolling out ML automation. e.g. the self-driving car stats: >The number of unmanned cabs is expected to hit 14,000 by the end
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by marojejian 5mo ago
gift link: https://www.wsj.com/finance/vanguard-costco-acquired-podcast... Generally, I'm a believer that alignment through broad ownership is a strategy we should pursue as a society. At the least it's a goo
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Vanguard succeeded because it is owned by customers(wsj.com)
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Polyploidy: An insurance policy for plants against environmental upheaval(cell.com)
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by marojejian 5mo ago
Hat tip to NPR where I heard about this: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/14/nx-s1-5816431/some-plants-hav...
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AI Is Starting to Build Better AI (Recursive self-improvement)(spectrum.ieee.org)
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A Day in the Life of an "Enshittificator" (Norwegian Consumer Council) [video](youtube.com)
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Strategic advice from LLM's is "trendslop", say researchers(hbr.org)
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by marojejian 5mo ago
FWIW we have the same problem with a lot of humans, esp. from business school. And trendslop can help you get you hired. But this is still a valuable point to make. On the bright side, given layoff trends, sounds like LLMs are not yet drivi
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Impact of Trump aid cuts: 9 million deaths by 2030(nytimes.com)
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