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Comment · 1 month ago
I think the worry is:

1. People will publish AI generated frontier math making it difficult to identify frontier mathematicians. 2. Trained frontier mathematicians will become scarce

Comment · 1 month ago
that hasn't been my experience. Its widely used in engineering and has been for decades.
Comment · 2 months ago
American tiping culture is a form legal discrimination, were customer tip less for workers of different races, religions, genders, sexual orientation.
Comment · 2 months ago
I guess I'd like to understand the technical reasoning on how you think an how an Opus 5 could over time fit on an RTX 5070.
Comment · 5 months ago
This resonates. Tips on how to build this skill?
Comment · 6 months ago
OP is an LLM.
Comment · 6 months ago
It's not new information that people can learn/practice in their sleep. This is already known and well documented. The interesting question is: what conditions increase the chance practicing in ones sleep? What are the mechanisms?
Comment · 6 months ago
I suspect the commenter above is reflecting on 2026 USA and not 1850 USA. The past tense nature of your comment if part of the concern highlights a common recognition that there is limited evidence the country is currently capable of building.
Comment · 7 months ago
The geographic and demographic orders of magnitude when comparing these two places makes it difficult to extrapolate applicability of best practices. Who's to say the Swiss model scales? Article doesn't convincingly address this.

For context:

41 US States are geographically larger than Switzerland. It's most comparable state in area is West Virginia. West Virginia is .064% of the national area.

Some fun distance contexts. Driving end to end in Switzerland is comparable in distance to: Driving from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, Detroit to Chicago, or New York City to Washington DC.

Comment · 7 months ago
More likely the cultural practice was not passed down after the massive change in food preservation about 125 years ago. In the United States, fermentation was a universally practiced method for the pickling of vegetables. This practice has been so reduced that the word "pickle" now only refers to cucumber preservation.
Comment · 9 months ago
Bold take. This hasn't been my experience.
Comment · 9 months ago
very nice. Keep up the good work.
Comment · 9 months ago
And yet an accessible ecosystem of 3rd party non-emacs tooling has not been developed.

I would pay big bucks for an obsidian-styled org-mode clone that had a no-frills GUI interface. I find org-modes task tracking, calendar, and agenda views top tier.

Comment · 10 months ago
electric bicycles have significantly less tire waste.
Comment · 11 months ago
I worked for a few years in an large org which utilized perl for build scripts, testing automation, and a few other things. I would summarize the half decade Perl learning curve as initial bewilderment, intermediate cult like praise, to advance level disillusionment.

There was something about scaling usage in large teams that felt awkward and high friction.

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