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The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul

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Everybody can see there’s a crisis in New York publishing. Even the hot new books feel lukewarm. Writers win the Pulitzer Prize and sell just few hundred copies. The big publishers rely on 50 or 100 proven authors—everything else is just window dressing or the back catalog. You can tell how stagnant things have become […]

LLM Writing Tropes.md

A single file containing all cataloged AI writing tropes. Add it to your AI’s system prompt to help it avoid these patterns (let’s play cat and mouse!). Disclaimer: Creation of this file was AI-assisted. If you thought I was going to write out a .md file for AI myself you must be mad. AI for […]

Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets

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Effort comes after reports of individuals suspiciously earning massive payouts before Iran Strikes, Venezuela Military Actions Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Minnesota’s U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar launched a new effort to prevent government officials at the highest levels from engaging in prediction markets, cracking down on the potential for any […]

CasNum

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CasNum (Compass and straightedge Number) is a library that implements arbitrary precision arithmetic using compass and straightedge constructions. Arbitrary precision arithmetic, now with 100% more Euclid. Featuring a functional modified Game Boy emulator where every ALU opcode is implemented entirely through geometric constructions. Introduction To Compass And Straightedge Constructions Possible Uses Integration inside a Gameboy […]

Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

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One day, frontier AI research used to be done by meat computers in between eating, sleeping, having other fun, and synchronizing once in a while using sound wave interconnect in the ritual of ”group meeting”. That era is long gone. Research is now entirely the domain of autonomous swarms of AI agents running across compute […]

War Prediction Markets Are a National-Security Threat

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was not, it’s safe to assume, a devoted Polymarket user. If he had been, the Iranian leader might still be alive. Hours before Khamenei’s compound in Tehran was reduced to rubble last week, an account under the username “magamyman” bet about $20,000 that the supreme leader would no longer be in power […]

We’re Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They’re Not Robots

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from the can-someone-ask-an-ai-about-incentives dept About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron—a story about a dystopian society that enforces “equality” by handicapping anyone who excels—and […]