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Magical Instant Bullets

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The Future Is Too Expensive – A New Theory on Collapsing Birth Rates

Social drinking also a well-worn path to alcohol use disorder

Block Diffusion: Interpolating Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models

Uber's Shower Gate Scandal

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When Suno covers my song (very useful) – a study with variations

Rams is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams (2018)

RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

Robot Dexterity Still Seems Hard

Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers

Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs

CaMeL: Defeating Prompt Injections by Design

Vivarium: The keeper of a lab's animals stumbles onto a secret [fiction]

Stop Conflating Genius with Asshole

US tech tariff exemption may only be temporary, says Lutnick

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