Articles by asplake
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Europe sleepwalked into yet another energy crisis (bbc.com)

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Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection (joanwestenberg.com)

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AI chatbot urged violence, study finds (arstechnica.com)

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From Iran to Ukraine, everyone's trying to hack security cameras (wired.com)

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Beyond Dunbar: Civilization Was Right to Move Beyond the Village (indyjohar.substack.com)

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Could a vaccine prevent dementia? Shingles shot data only getting stronger (arstechnica.com)

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What Developers Actually Need to Know Right Now (oreilly.com)

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In contrast with Trump's America, Europe's 100 gigawatt clean energy hub (cnn.com)

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I Regret to Inform You That the FDA Is FDAing Again (marginalrevolution.com)

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Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations (quantamagazine.org)

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These nets used to catch fish. Now they're catching Russian drones (cnn.com)

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How British Queues Got Out of Hand (timharford.com)

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A Management Philosopher with Heady Ideas About Beer (2009) (wsj.com)

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Police chief admits misleading MPs after AI used in ban justification (bbc.co.uk)

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Head Up, Feet Moving: Complexity isn't a spectator sport (medium.com/topology-insight)

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The science of how (and when) we decide to speak out–or self-censor (arstechnica.com)

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Digital age brings Denmark's postal service to a historic end (cnn.com)

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Circular Causality: A Short History (With Receipts) (medium.com/maddyjean)

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The Ring, the Holon, and the Revenge of the Objective (estebanandthecollective.substack.com)

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Everything Is Dead and We Killed It (joanwestenberg.com)

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The Ring, the Holon, and the Revenge of the Objective (estebanandthecollective.substack.com)

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Pioneering new treatment reverses incurable blood cancer in some patients (bbc.co.uk)

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The Hierarchy of Work Complexity Is Inescapable (Even at Buurtzorg) (synexia.substack.com)

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Four Ways to Explain Anything ... but Not Everything to Everyone (2010) (psychologytoday.com)

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The risk of round numbers and sharp thresholds in clinical practice (nature.com)

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Tesla's "Mad Max" mode is now under federal scrutiny (arstechnica.com)

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Rare Earths Aren't Rare (marginalrevolution.com)

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The Total Impact Matrix – Beyond Blind Bets (itamargilad.com)

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: A Grounded Framework (pdf, 2022) (frontiersin.org)

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Let's Prove Leftpad (github.com/hwayne)

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Semantics Follows Frequency: Language in the Spectral Domain (daedeluskite.com)

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Nomic (wikipedia.org)

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Simpler Category Theory (ryanbrewer.dev)

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Unification (2018) (thegreenplace.net)

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I Spoke to Britain's First AI MP and It Got a Bit Weird (politicshome.com)

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Formal Inertia (daedeluskite.com)

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One Reason Typeclasses Are Useful (2011) (coalton-lang.github.io)

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Scoop: Trump admin cuts contracts with scientific publishing giant (axios.com)

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Scrap Your Type Classes (haskellforall.com)

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Empire of flight: Why birds don't drive Bentleys and we humans will never fly (aeon.co)

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Sizewell C nuclear plant gets £14B go-ahead from government (bbc.co.uk)

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A no-maths guide to monads (raphael-proust.gitlab.io)

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How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants (bbc.co.uk)

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iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years (arstechnica.com)

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Why translating Chinese food names into English is 'an impossible task' (cnn.com)

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Looking at the Universe's dark ages from the far side of the Moon (arstechnica.com)

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Millions watch as Swedish moose begin annual migration (bbc.co.uk)

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Inside The Controversial Decision to Rid the UK of Its Plutonium Stores (politicshome.com)

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Early work experimenting with Zig as a cross-compiler for OCaml (ocaml.org)

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Six Flavors of Product Management (sociotechnical.org)

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The Severance writer and cast on corporate cults, sci-fi, and more (arstechnica.com)

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Overfitting and Excuses (backofmind.substack.com)

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We accidentally built a better build system for OCaml (janestreet.com)

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Tarides: 2024 in Review (tarides.com)

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Quantum computing stock bubble pops after Nvidia CEO warning (axios.com)

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A chart that shows everything that has ever existed (economist.com)

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How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories (bbc.co.uk)

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Rough notes on learning Wardley Mapping (lethain.com)

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Nuclear fusion startup reaches milestone in bid to commercialize clean energy (cnn.com)

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From eyesore to asset: How a smelly seaweed could fuel cars (bbc.co.uk)

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Apple TV+ spent $20B on original content. If only people watched (arstechnica.com)

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VW launches $5.8B tie-up with Tesla rival Rivian (bbc.co.uk)

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Please Publish and Share More (webology.dev)

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Airline forced to rebalance planes because first class seats are too heavy (cnn.com)

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Reckoning (simonwillison.net)

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The Sarumans and the Radagasts (medium.com/komorama)

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How to Raise the world’s IQ (economist.com)

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The Story of Why (nickasbury.substack.com)

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Synthetic User Research Is a Terrible Idea (atomicobject.com)

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UK breakthrough could slash emissions from cement (bbc.co.uk)

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Yellowstone's Wolves: A Debate over Their Role in the Park's Ecosystem (nytimes.com)

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Cally: Accessibility Statement (simonwillison.net)

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Eio 1.0 Release: Introducing a new Effects-Based I/O Library for OCaml (tarides.com)

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What if we rotate pairs every day? (martinfowler.com)

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Learn-OCaml (github.com/ocaml-sf)

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The brewing secrets behind tastier no-alcohol beer (bbc.co.uk)

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New-wave reactor technology could kick-start a nuclear renaissance (cnn.com)

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From Flow to Business Agility (agendashift.com)

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A paradise island vacation with no mosquito bites – and no chemicals (cnn.com)

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Whatever Happened to NFTs? (bbc.co.uk)

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What You Need to Know About a Bank of England Digital Currency (politicshome.com)

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Zoom updates ToS to clarify that it won’t use your calls to train AI (arstechnica.com)

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Lean times hit the vertical farming business (bbc.co.uk)

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The Management Myth (theatlantic.com)

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As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance (economist.com)

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The Importance of Cognitive Endurance (marginalrevolution.com)

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One of Evolution’s Biggest Moments Was Re-Created in a Year (theatlantic.com)

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Chrome will support the WebGPU API by default–here’s why that’s important (arstechnica.com)

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BBC advises staff to delete TikTok from their work phones (bbc.co.uk)

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BBC Advises.ata (bbc.co.uk)

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Requiem for a string: Charting the rise and fall of a theory of everything (arstechnica.com)

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The Iceberg, Method (cbs.dk)

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Shaping Your Authenticity (subbu.org)

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Tuesday to Thursday is the new office working week, data suggests (bbc.co.uk)

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Freedom to Roam in Scotland (2019) (apidura.com)

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'5G makes my phone pretty worthless' (bbc.co.uk)

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Tension (jpattonassociates.com)

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Ask HN: Reliable ways to remove Monterey's orange recording indicator dot?

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The pathway to 90% clean electricity is mostly clear. The last 10%, not so much (insideclimatenews.org)

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Facebook users sue Meta for bypassing beefy Apple security to spy on millions