Articles by andsoitis
2

Japan's music cafés are striking a chord abroad (economist.com)

1

All Your Heroes Were on Drugs (medium.com/belover)

2

Level up your life by starting a side quest (npr.org)

1

What Is Braille? (afb.org)

1

Moonlander Ergonomic Keyboard (zsa.io)

161

To become a better writer, read as much as you can (nappertime.com)

3

The dark underbelly of "Paw Patrol" (economist.com)

2

Thalamocortical Circuit Motifs: A General Framework (2019) (sciencedirect.com)

3

Britain would be bonkers to ditch Palantir (economist.com)

1

Sweden became a country of big-state libertarians (economist.com)

3

Stock indices no longer reflect equity reality (economist.com)

2

Can Reddit survive in the AI era? (economist.com)

27

Could AIs Become Conscious? (economist.com)

1

Bun 1.4 Released (github.com/oven-sh)

1

The Large Hadron Collider: 1984 – 2017 (cern.ch)

2

Satellites and artificial intelligence are transforming wildfire detection (theguardian.com)

4

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024) (epfl.ch)

2

God Save the Red Queen Competition in Co-Evolutionary Robotics (1997) (epfl.ch)

2

Big tech meets Milton Friedman (semafor.com)

2

Apple tests Chinese memory chips (semafor.com)

1

Google doesn't need the LLM crown (semafor.com)

1

The surprising effects of Europe's heatwaves (economist.com)

1

How much would you pay for a smarter baby? (economist.com)

2

Bees make decisions better and faster than we do (mq.edu.au)

1

Inhibitory synapses influence signals in the brain with high precision (maxplanckneuroscience.org)

2

Decision-making and action selection in insects (nih.gov)

1

How the World Was Wired (economist.com)

49

The case for overhauling American science (economist.com)

1

The Human-Computer Interaction handbook (books.google.com)

2

Alphabet's SpaceX bet grows 100-fold over a decade to $94B (reuters.com)

1

Reed Hastings on life after Netflix and the coming 'creative destruction' (semafor.com)

2

Playing to Learn (observed.life)

1

Meraki (μεράκι): Infusing Purpose and Passion into Every Moment (statecashmere.com)

1

Meraki: An Ancient Greek Secret for a Rich Life (medium.com/mind-cafe)

1

Meraki – Infusing Purpose and Passion into Every Moment (statecashmere.com)

2

Silicon Valley's AI boom is remaking American charity (economist.com)

1

Bounded Asynchrony and Nested Parallelism for Scalable Graph Processing (tamu.edu)

2

There are two kinds of theorems (plover.com)

165

AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users (economist.com)

1

War and Peace (ourworldindata.org)

4

Share of Global CO₂ Emissions (ourworldindata.org)

1

The Measure of Intelligence (arxiv.org)

2

llambda.lisp: Bare-Metal, Multi-Threaded, AVX2-Accelerated LLM inf eng in CL (funcall.blogspot.com)

23

America really might restore democracy to Venezuela (economist.com)

2

Stunning Eclipse turns daylight into darkness across Europe (bbc.co.uk)

3

Roku's AI slop channel is worse than expected (theguardian.com)

2

Ultrarare Nintendo Mario game cartridges discovered in Wisconsin (apnews.com)

2

Circumstantial Complexity, LLMs and Large Scale Architecture (datagubbe.se)

3

User Interfaces of the Demo Scene (datagubbe.se)

2

If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them (theguardian.com)

2

Hooray for index funds–just don't call them passive (economist.com)

39

The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood (whdh.com)

16

[flagged] Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies (economist.com)

2

Nvidia's Great Silicon Showdown (economist.com)

2

YouTube is on a major decluttering mission (fastcompany.com)

136

The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment (economist.com)

5

Electrostates vs. petrostates: the US, China, and the Hormuz energy shock (brookings.edu)

2

The Field Is Optional. The Death Threats Were Not (canartuc.medium.com)

2

Olix raises $312M from Netflix's Reed Hastings, Arm, to build Nvidia rival (techfundingnews.com)

3

Is Europe safer than America? (economist.com)

2

A2 Milk: New Perspectives for Food Technology and Human Health (nih.gov)

3

Aftermath of Catastrophic Fires in Spokane (kuow.org)

5

How AI is breaking the British State

7

Switzerland is a neutral nation but has more nuclear bunkers than any country (npr.org)

4

Why most IPOs are not worth the hype (economist.com)

3

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition (economist.com)

1

Can you hack your gut microbiome? (economist.com)

1

Sit through 15 hours of opera (economist.com)

1

Looking down on London's straw-coloured parks (bbc.com)

2

Accurate Measurement of Time [pdf] (nist.gov)

1

From Sundials to Atomic Clocks [pdf] (nist.gov)

2

Common knowledge shapes our lives and societies (theconversation.com)

1

Steven Pinker on How Common Knowledge Builds and Weakens Societies (persuasion.community)

6

Xcode's Clever Minimap (aresluna.org)

2

A glimpse from China of AI's future (economist.com)

2

TV's 25 best true-crime shows (theguardian.com)

1

China's AI drive threatens the largest workforce (economist.com)

3

Migrants, including more than 860 minors, remain in Ceuta (euronews.com)

2

Palmer Luckey's political fundraising as his company wins sole-source contracts (theguardian.com)

28

[flagged] Humans Will Never Leave the Solar System (erscream.com)

2

Haven-1: the first commercial space station (vastspace.com)

1

Kathryn Lueders, SpaceX Starbase General Manager (brookeowensfellowship.org)

2

My First 8K Intro (juszkiewicz.com.pl)

3

The Monty Hall Problem (usu.edu)

56

Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom (economist.com)

20

Investors are having doubts about Elon Musk's grandiose ambitions (economist.com)

5

A unique South African plant became a global tea sensation (cnn.com)

2

How chip-fuelled wealth is reshaping South Korea (economist.com)

3

All Knowledge Is Provisional (2024) (sebastianmellen.com)

2

Seeing the World Through Your Field (2024) (sebastianmellen.com)

2

How dementia is being defeated (economist.com)

3

EU calls for stronger borders after Ceuta migrant crossings (bbc.com)

2

Millions play padel. Will anyone watch it? (economist.com)

5

Palantir Shares Jump on 'Otherworldly' Sales, Improved Forecast (wsj.com)

4

Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI (microsoft.com)

13

ASCII Today (ascii.today)

2

It is past time to upgrade to post-quantum encryption (economist.com)

8

US Government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference (reuters.com)

2

AI is getting better at writing. Humans must get better at editing (economist.com)

1

Don't grab any seat on a rocket ship (hunterwalk.com)