Stories by andyljones

Horses: Steady progress in automation makes for sudden transitions

How to design, build and test small liquid-fuel rocket engines

AI Safety Needs Great Engineers

List of Exploits Found by AIs

Debugging Reinforcement Learning Systems While Retaining Your Sanity

Precision advice, collateral damage, bright lines and balancing tests

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’

Should you donate to the Wikimedia Foundation? (2015)

A Deep Dive into Google, Facebook and Australian News

The Cat Gap

A geographic model of why Europe tended to fragmentation, and China to unity

Achieving gigabit communications between stars with gravitational lensing

Stories from developers who have switched from Mac to Windows

An in-browser, interactive model of the Coriolis effect (Desktop only)

Are we in an AI Overhang?

Show HN: Megastep, 1M FPS reinforcement learning on a single GPU

Cross-Examination for Journalists

A Clearer Proof of the Policy Gradient Theorem

Multipole Methods for the Masses

The Good Judgement Project's superforecasters expect 250m cases by next April