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The "Homeless" Streamers of China [video]

Prediction Markets Are Accurate

What are the chances the cashless student cafeteria has a privacy policy?

List of Individual Body Parts

Essentials for Independent Travel in China

Gijswijt's Sequence

The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation [video]

The Drosophila of Decision Science

We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments

Energy Predictions 2025

A Multimedia Sketchpad

Testing a cheaper laminar flow hood

Do Not Optimize Away

Smol share – for sharing ephemeral encrypted snippets of text or links

Too Complex to Fix

We are not here to make code

Stagnant Construction Productivity Is a Worldwide Problem

Peak TIME POTY Drama

AI Safety for Fleshy Humans: a whirlwind tour

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