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Viral “racism in academia” story deleted when I started asking questions
Do Western names lead to more callbacks than Middle Eastern ones? Heck if I know, but this viral Twitter thread won't get you any closer to the truth
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The anti-inflation pivot of 2022
In response to the surge in prices that began in earnest in the summer of 2021 central banks all around the world are hiking interest rates.
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Galileo Project now fully funded for expedition to study an interstellar meteor
Wonderful news! We just received full funding for the Galileo Project expedition to scoop the fragments of the first interstellar meteor…
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Macwright.com redirects HN readers away
Farewell to orange
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Have I reached the Douglas Adams Inflection point?
The all-knowing sage Douglas Adams had this to say about technology: Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can…
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Privacy vs. “I have nothing to hide” (2019)
A recent post received numerous comments asking why I was so concerned about privacy and asking what I have to hide. Here's my reply...
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Futurist prediction methods and accuracy
I've been reading a lot of predictions from people who are looking to understand what problems humanity will face 10-50 years out (and sometimes longer) in order to work in areas that will be instrumental for the future and wondering how accurate these predictions of the future are. The timeframe of predictions that…
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Who cares about diversity?
All across the Academy, schools are requiring “Diversity Statements” as a condition for new hires.
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Online art communities begin banning AI-generated images
Online art communities have started banning AI-generated art, while others are facing public pressure from their own members to take a stand.
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‘Return to the office’ rhetoric needs to end
Disclaimer: I know not all jobs can be done from home. This article is aimed at the ones that can be done remotely yet have ‘management…
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On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services
I’ve seen some mediocre automated translations of my Dutch language resignation statement go round. To prevent any confusion, please find the story here in English: Until today I was one of the three members of the board that checks warrants for the Dutch intelligence and security services. This board is called…
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Who controls the Internet? And should they? (2021)
This is a lightly edited transcript of my keynote over at NANOG 83, so please accept my apologies if some of the wording is not (yet) as clear as it should be! The original video, including Q&A can be found on NANOG’s Youtube channel Hello, and welcome to this presentation on who controls the internet, and if they…
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Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
We've got the wrong theory about how minds work and it's ruining our lives
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The tyranny of the wagon equation
A mathematical extension to ACOUP's recent blog post on military logistics
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All poverty is energy poverty
The world needs to use a lot more energy
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Don't ignore the janitor
The importance of seeing, smiling and talking to people
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The Trouble with 5G
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Why was western printing superior to Asian printing?
Movable type was not invented by Gutenberg but in China and later advanced in Korea, so why didn't Asia have a printing revolution?
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Science is political, and that's a bad thing
People who say “science is political” usually aren’t just stating facts - they’re trying to push something on you. Don’t let them
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Why have I never heard of the Ene-Farm? (2017)
While reading up on architecture in Japan recently, I came across a technology that I hadn’t heard of before: the Ene-Farm. It’s a domestic energy system that is being used in Japan and…
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Interview: Vitalik Buterin
In which we talk about the big shifts in crypto.
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Bibliogram, Open-source front-end for Instagram, is being discontinued
Before we start: If Bibliogram has been helpful to you, please consider making a donation! Donations help me pay for servers on my current and future projects, not to mention the time I put into writing code.
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The branch banking model
Ever wondered how bank branches work at a nuts-and-bolts level? Let's dig into the logic and economics of them.
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Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Comments on CA AB 2273)
I’m continuing my coverage of dangerous Internet bills in the California legislature. This job is especially challenging during an election year, when legislators rally behind the “protect the kids” mantra to pursue bills that are likely to hurt, or at...
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Exploring 12M of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion
What images were used to train Stable Diffusion's text-to-image AI model? I worked with Simon Willison to make a data browser to explore and search a sample of 12 million images.