Articles by tchalla
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AI Made Me Homeless (medium.com/effortless-programming)

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The Pentagon is quietly building an elite new tech sabotage agency (politico.com)

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How Much of a Harness Does a Strong Agent Need for Autonomous ML Engineering? (arxiv.org)

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Affluent and Older Americans Got Much Richer in Postpandemic Years (wsj.com)

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Bumble bought for $1.3B in 'bet on the future of humanity' (bbc.com)

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Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? (slate.com)

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Limnic Eruption (wikipedia.org)

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France issues warning over substandard condoms (dw.com)

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Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine and refused to profit from it (bbc.com)

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Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)

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Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities (bbc.com)

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Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (acm.org)

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AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust (wired.com)

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Crypto miners are stealing power in Southeast Asia (dw.com)

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Suno Held Liable for Infringing German Song Copyrights (billboard.com)

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Johnson and Johnson offers up to $5.5B to settle baby powder lawsuits (bbc.com)

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Manufactured crisis – Europe's car industry hoards funds, delays climate action (somo.nl)

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Work out daily? OK, but how socially fit are you? (2023) (news.harvard.edu)

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Asthma Control Before and After Changing Gas Stoves to Electric Stoves (sciencedirect.com)

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Why the youth jobs crisis is becoming global (dw.com)

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AI makes programming differently difficult (acm.org)

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Hugging Face turns to GLM 5.2 to fend off AI agent attack (venturebeat.com)

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The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker (bbc.com)

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Europe's Making Fewer Cars and Lots of Them Are Chinese (bloomberg.com)

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The Return of Soft Skills in the Age of GenAI and Agentic Software Development (acm.org)

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Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML (twitter.com/trq212)

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WHO approves first Malaria drug for babies (who.int)

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Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (bbc.com)

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The Mythical Agent-Month (wesmckinney.com)

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Top US Lawyers' Fees Have Skyrocketed. Be Prepared to Pay $3,400 an Hour (wsj.com)

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When Science Goes Agentic (acm.org)

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Log4j – Addressing AI-slop in security reports (github.com/apache)

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How people woke up before alarm clocks (bbc.com)

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India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders (bbc.com)

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Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake (theregister.com)

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The Danger of Shipping Fast (posthog.com)

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AI Won't Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper (lawfaremedia.org)

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Creative problem-solving of unsolved puzzles during REM sleep (oup.com)

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Statin pills much safer than advertised, major review finds (bbc.com)

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Natural daylight during office hours improves glucose control and metabolism (sciencedirect.com)

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United States Territorial Acquisitions (wikipedia.org)

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Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance (science.org)

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Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging, analysis of 27 Euro nations (nature.com)

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Largest web with 111k spiders discovered in a remote cave in Greece (pensoft.net)

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Computing Is Indeed a Discipline in Crisis (acm.org)

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German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters (ft.com)

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Tipping in Japan remains taboo as tourism takes off (dw.com)

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Apple steps up war of words with European regulators (bbc.com)

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East Asian Age Reckoning (wikipedia.org)

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Web-scraping AI bots cause disruption for scientific databases and journals (nature.com)

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Daily 1-min exposure to pure tone at 100 Hz may improve motion sickness (jst.go.jp)

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EU and UK fine carmakers millions over recycling cartel (dw.com)

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Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them (2018) (bbc.com)

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My Career-Limiting Communication (acm.org)

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Post-Covid inflammatory shock in children traced to Epstein-Barr virus (charite.de)

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The business of selling booze is under pressure (sherwood.news)

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How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fisher and smoking (2022) (columbia.edu)

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Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages (nature.com)

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Why Microsoft Excel won't die (economist.com)

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Netflix raises prices as password boost fades (bbc.com)

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The puzzling rise of cancer in younger people (bbc.com)

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Lessons Learned: 1k Days of Distributed at Atlassian (atlassian.com)

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Japan government stops requiring floppy disks (arstechnica.com)

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[dupe] Darwinian Gastronomy: Spices taste good because they are good for us (oup.com)

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The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity (slack.com)

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Wubi Method (wikipedia.org)

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Critically endangered echidna finally rediscovered after 60 years (ox.ac.uk)

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The Truth about Distraction (oliverburkeman.com)

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Finland Government Has Admitted the Failure of Finland Education (note.com)

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Gate Tower Building – Japan (wikipedia.org)

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Pen Hospital: A 'fountain' head of hope amid despair (telegraphindia.com)

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Hyundai and Kia agree to $200M settlement over TikTok car theft challenge (theverge.com)

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How to Make Friends as an Adult (markmanson.net)

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Low sex drive in men linked to chemical imbalance (cnn.com)

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Principal Component Analyses (PCA) findings in genetic studies are highly biased (nature.com)

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Females more likely than males to be elected in US scientific societies (nature.com)

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Meta, Alphabet target middle managers with job cuts (bloomberg.com)

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The misuse of colour in science communication [pdf] (nature.com)

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A Human-Centered Approach to Developer Productivity (ieee.org)

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Is Computing Innovation Getting Harder? (acm.org)

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The surprising benefits of blue spaces (bbc.com)

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Solving brain dynamics gives rise to flexible machine learning models (csail.mit.edu)

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EU: Digital Markets Act (europa.eu)

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Employers should prioritize retention over hiring, study suggests (hrdive.com)

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A user complained about clock on BBC homepage (twitter.com/nmcintosh)

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An Interview with Meta CEO Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Nadella About Metaverse (stratechery.com)

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Succeeding in the AI competition with China: A strategy for action (brookings.edu)

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You can watch how much I rewrite here

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Solar power helps an Indian state vaccinate

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Moderna sues Pfizer and BioNTech alleging patent infringement over Covid vaccine

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Streaming Services Deal with More Subscribers Who ‘Watch, Cancel and Go’