Articles by bertman
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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (mataroa.blog)

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Gödel and Turing outlined the limits of AI (heise.de)

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Silicon, not oil: Why the U.S. needs the Gulf for AI (restofworld.org)

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Terence Tao: Cleverness versus Intelligence in AI Tools and Humans (mathstodon.xyz)

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Tao: Intelligence is too high-dimensional for accurate low-dimensional narrative (mathstodon.xyz)

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Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support (github.com/yt-dlp)

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China's chipmakers are cleverly innovating around America's limits (economist.com)

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The App Store was always authoritarian (infrequently.org)

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Former UK prime minster Sunak becomes human Clippy for Microsoft, Anthropic (theregister.com)

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Indonesia's film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap (restofworld.org)

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Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly (mathstodon.xyz)

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Splitting a long string in lines efficiently (lemire.me)

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I Fell in Love with Calendar.txt (ploum.net)

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Making the most of a dumb fax switcher box in the old days (rachelbythebay.com)

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Preventing telephone manipulation: the TSG standards (electrospaces.net)

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Dubai's robotaxi dreams are coming for human drivers (restofworld.org)

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Vercel Goes All in on Vibe Coding Web Apps (thenewstack.io)

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Terence Tao: Applying Red Team / Blue Team Duality to AI Workflows (mathstodon.xyz)

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Quantitative AI progress needs accurate and transparent evaluation (mathstodon.xyz)

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Bitcoin Coup:How Crypto Accelerationists Engineered America's Financial Collapse (notesfromthecircus.com)

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A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability (mathstodon.xyz)

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Xmlui (jonudell.net)

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Terence Tao: Game theory, politics and control of information (mathstodon.xyz)

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"AI discourse" is a joke (purplesyringa.moe)

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The Magical Thinking That's Killing Our Humanity (notesfromthecircus.com)

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To Save Nature, Make It Sacred (noemamag.com)

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AI Infiltrated Perfume (theverge.com)

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0.9999 ≊ 1 (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Terence Tao on the importance of funding basic mathematical research (mathstodon.xyz)

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A simple search engine from scratch (bernsteinbear.com)

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Cloud Overview (berthub.eu)

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Resilience in the RPKI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure) (potaroo.net)

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Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and LLMs replacing human programmers (ratfactor.com)

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Caddy v2.10.0 (github.com/caddyserver)

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Researchers lift the lid on how reasoning models "think" (economist.com)

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Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users (theregister.com)

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Debian bookworm live images now reproducible (lwn.net)

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AI and Esoteric Fascism (baldurbjarnason.com)

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How the Trump administration wants to reshape American science (economist.com)

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Terence Tao: Trump's Federal Funding Freeze and Mean-Field Game Theory (mathstodon.xyz)

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Terence Tao about the balance between quantitative and qualitative thinking (mathstodon.xyz)

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Terence Tao: The Regime of "No Effective Dynamics" (mathstodon.xyz)

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How FastAPI path operations work (vickiboykis.com)

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Video Games Can't Afford to Look This Good (nytimes.com)

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The Rise of Post-Literate History (compactmag.com)

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Simpler and faster parsing code with std:views:split (lemire.me)

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The Year in Computer Science (quantamagazine.org)

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End-to-end RCS encryption with iPhone users is still months away (androidpolice.com)

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All the Little Data – Speaking the Language of Robots (hedgehogreview.com)

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The Phones of the New NATO Secretary General (electrospaces.net)

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In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse (lithub.com)

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Any Python program fits in 30 characters (purplesyringa.moe)

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Terence Tao: Solving problems by abstracting away highly relevant information (mathstodon.xyz)

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Terence Tao: "It can become more rational to think and act more boldly" (mathstodon.xyz)

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Life Long Learning: Dealing with New Things (berthub.eu)

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Archiving Android Password Store (github.com/android-password-store)

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Two Nobel Prizes for AI, and Two Paths Forward (garymarcus.substack.com)

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Decentralised Open Indexes for Discovery (DOID) (nadh.in)

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The Digital Credentials API origin trial (chrome.com)

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Big Tech in China doubles AI spending despite US restrictions (ft.com)

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Misfire (infrequently.org)

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Computers are an inherently oppressive technology (2022) (devever.net)

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RCS on the iPhone is almost the solution to our green-bubble nightmare (theverge.com)

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Google takes first major step: E2EE interoperability across all messaging apps (androidauthority.com)

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The need for a President that speaks AI natively (garymarcus.substack.com)

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The Life Of Lithium (noemamag.com)

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Nvidia loses a cool $500B as market questions AI boom (theregister.com)

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TorrentGalaxy Goes Offline with Mysterious Message to Users (torrentfreak.com)

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We've been put in the vibe space (vickiboykis.com)

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WhatsApp gives India an ultimatum on encryption (restofworld.org)

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"Run0" as a Sudo Replacement (lwn.net)

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About Freedom and Power (ploum.net)

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Honduras Ratchets Up Battle with Crypto-Libertarian Investors (theintercept.com)

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AI and the Evolution of Social Media (schneier.com)

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Nuclear Weapons Are Back on the Radar (noemamag.com)

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The digital revolution has failed (disconnect.blog)

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New breakthrough brings matrix multiplication closer to ideal (quantamagazine.org)

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Elon Musk Is Right About OpenAI's Hypocrisy (bloomberg.com)

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AI hype is fading, according to earnings calls (yahoo.com)

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Signal: Statement on Apple's joining the post quantum encrypted messaging party (mastodon.world)

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Debugging an odd inability to stream video (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

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Sora's Surreal Physics (garymarcus.substack.com)

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Google enables OS upgrades for older PCs post-Windows 10 support cutoff (reuters.com)

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Google has removed Conversations_im from the Play Store (gultsch.social)

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[flagged] An Open Letter to Sam Altman (garymarcus.substack.com)

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Ollama v0.1.24: OpenAI API Compatibility (github.com/ollama)

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[flagged] Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself" (pluralistic.net)

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Deconstructing Geoffrey Hinton's weakest argument (garymarcus.substack.com)

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I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine (pluralistic.net)

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Tesla's in Serious Trouble (disconnect.blog)

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"Anna's Archive" blocked following publishers' complaint (torrentfreak.com)

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A War Story About a Python, a Fork, a Cow, and a Bug (codeconfessions.substack.com)

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Instagram introduces gen-AI powered background editing tool (techcrunch.com)

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Unit testing on an 8-bit CPU (conman.org)

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Congrats, Elon: I Didn't Think You Had It in You to File a Lawsuit This Stupid (techdirt.com)

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The end of anonymity on Chinese social media (restofworld.org)

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Streaming Sector Determined to Become Just as Shitty as 1990s Cable (techdirt.com)

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Exploiting DNS response parsing on the Wii U (garyodernichts.blogspot.com)

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The app that revolutionized money transfers in Nigeria (restofworld.org)

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CertWatch – MitM Detection and Monitoring for XMPP Servers (jmp.chat)