Articles by telotortium
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1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (heritagedaily.com)

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Roon: "programming always sucked … I'm glad it's over" (twitter.com/tszzl)

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The Void (2025) (github.com/nostalgebraist)

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Why Does A.I. Write Like That? (nytimes.com)

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Scrap the asylum system–and build something better (economist.com)

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Bash-prompt-EOL-mark: Print EOL mark for output without final newline (github.com/telotortium)

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bash-prompt-eol-mark: EOL mark for output without final newline (github.com/telotortium)

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Vanguard 50-year anniversary CEO letter (vanguard.com)

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Sidekick: In-Network Assistance for Secure End-to-End Transport Protocols (github.com/ygina)

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VLLM: Easy, Fast, and Cheap LLM Serving with PagedAttention (2023) (vllm.ai)

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Build Secure Community Projects with Tailscale (tailscale.com)

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Simulating Time with Square-Root Space (arxiv.org)

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Why I Am Not a Pronatalist (fromthenew.world)

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Unsigned comparisons using signed types (lemire.me)

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Predicting Expert Now Evaluations in Software Code Reviews (arxiv.org)

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Singularity Missed (piekniewski.info)

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The Internet Is Killing Science Too (the-hinternet.com)

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Undecidability of the Spectral Gap (2015) (nature.com)

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Kubernetes Instance Calculator (learnk8s.io)

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Replication studies can't fix science (plan99.net)

1

Life in the Shadow of the Boomers (2020) (scholars-stage.org)

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Why to Not Write a Book (gwern.net)

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[flagged] John Rawls and the Death of Western Marxism (josephheath.substack.com)

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Space habitat, sweet space habitat (woodfromeden.substack.com)

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Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead (2017) (filippo.io)

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The challenges of working out how many CPUs your program can use on Linux (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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A Loophole for Poor Mr. Paulson (forbes.com)

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Camels and Rubber Duckies (2004) (joelonsoftware.com)

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Py-Free-Threading (py-free-threading.github.io)

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The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions (arxiv.org)

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Reining in America's $3.3T tax-exempt economy (taxfoundation.org)

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I hacked time to recover $3M from a Bitcoin software wallet [video] (youtube.com)

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Musk Says Vote on His Pay Winning by 'Wide Margins' (wsj.com)

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Making Sense of Honor Culture (woodfromeden.substack.com)

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Get Used to a More Hallucinatory Search Experience (thediff.co)

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Some Novel Arguments Against Effective Altruism (medium.com/lymanstone)

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Fast groq-hosted LLMs vs. browser jank (glek.net)

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Houston, We Have a Solution (2023) (worksinprogress.co)

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Review: The Variational Principles of Mechanics (thepsmiths.com)

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Distribution of high-rate, high-fidelity entangled photons using deployed fibers (arxiv.org)

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Texas' online porn law could shatter a First Amendment precedent (platformer.news)

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Impaste: Pasting images to piped commands on macOS (simonwillison.net)

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Review: The Variational Principles of Mechanics, by Cornelius Lanczos (thepsmiths.com)

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Shelmet – Python subprocess/file command wrapper (shelmet.readthedocs.io)

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Trump joins Bloomberg's 500 wealthiest after Truth Social merger (thehill.com)

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First Automated Autorotation Feature for Helicopters (skyryse.com)

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Temporal Parts (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) (stanford.edu)

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Houston, We Have a Solution (worksinprogress.co)

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Error: Bug Bounty Program for Science (error.reviews)

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[flagged] Induced demand is not a useful concept (bensouthwood.co.uk)

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Neural network training makes beautiful fractals (sohl-dickstein.github.io)

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Statistical Process Control: A Practitioner's Guide (two-wrongs.com)

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Feminism is just an ape alliance (woodfromeden.substack.com)

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Bene Reader (ePub) (nota-lang.github.io)

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Both sexes have to be oppressed: book review of Warriors and Worriers (woodfromeden.substack.com)

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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw (amazon.com)

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Why induced demand is fake (bensouthwood.co.uk)

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The Congo Wars Revisited (woodfromeden.substack.com)

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Writing a GPT-4 script to check Wikipedia for the first unused acronym (gwern.net)

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Save American democracy – end the Imperial Presidency (demodexio.substack.com)

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Infinite Context LLMs: Going Beyond RAG with Extended Minds (normalcomputing.ai)

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On the trajectory of discrimination: 44 years of gender and hiring decisions (sciencedirect.com)

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Theo de Raadt on Pinsyscall(2) (undeadly.org)

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Electric Planes, Once a Fantasy, Start to Take to the Skies (nytimes.com)

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The Malthusian Trap Never Existed (rafaelrguthmann.substack.com)

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There were no ancient computers and it's fine (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Are modern children born too late? (woodfromeden.substack.com)

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Input and/or Spaced Repetition (nintil.com)

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Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal (aider.chat)

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Take No for an Answer on Genetic Engineering (thenewatlantis.com)

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The Truth about College Costs (nationalaffairs.com)

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Lilian Weng (AI safety at OpenAI) advocates ChatGPT for therapy (twitter.com/lilianweng)

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InstaFlow: Step Good for High-Quality Diffusion-Based Text-to-Image Generation (arxiv.org)

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Startup Roundup #1: Happy Demo Day (thezvi.substack.com)

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Postmodern, Modern, Medieval, and Ancient Typologies of Villainy (treeofwoe.substack.com)

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Instacart Is the Best and Worst Grocery Business Imaginable (thediff.co)

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Casync – A tool for distributing file system images (0pointer.net)

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The Nihilism of the Mass Shooter (default.blog)

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Love, God, and the Royale with Cheese (The Hidden Meaning of Pulp Fiction) [video] (youtube.com)

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Skill vs. Luck in Games (emilkirkegaard.com)

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Graylog Extended Log Format (GELF) – Structured Logging over UDP (graylog.org)

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The Price of a Woman (woodfromeden.substack.com)

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The Idealization of Youth (treeofwoe.substack.com)

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Attention Caplanites: School Is Less Wasteful Than You Think (infovores.substack.com)

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Wisconsin's Singular Partial Veto (wiscontext.org)

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Deploying Apps with JCEF (Chromium Embedding Framework for Java) (hydraulic.dev)

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North Atlantic ocean temp rise in 2023 due to low sulfur fuel in ocean ships (twitter.com/astridwilde1)

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Holepunch (holepunch.to)

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[flagged] Swedish PM: we are now changing our migration policy to the EU's strictest (aftonbladet.se)

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Tech Debt Metaphor Maximalism (apenwarr.ca)

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A Tale of Twin Sisters (denovo.substack.com)

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ChatGPT should include inline tips (simonwillison.net)

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Economists Got Africa’s Aids Epidemic Wrong (cgdev.org)

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Superfocus.ai (superfocus.ai)

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Homework Machine – A machine that writes stuff for you – in your own handwriting (hackaday.io)

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Fifty Shades of Apes (woodfromeden.substack.com)

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Jq play – a playground for jq 1.6, with shareable snippets (jqplay.org)

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The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: From Plausible to Proven (2013) (tofspot.blogspot.com)

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Goals (and Not Having Them) (sarahconstantin.substack.com)

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Compliance: Impossible (prestonbyrne.com)