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I'm a transhumanist, I want to build god and kill death. To me this looks like we are moving in the right direction.

So basically I think that the future is getting pretty weird because we are building really powerful tools, though these tools are precisely what allows us to prosper in that future.

Pretty cool. One of the big challenges in trying neutrino detection in ice is dealing with funding agencies. The optical properties of ice only get good when you are actually a few kilometers deep in very old ice. That is you can't just build a demonstrator in the nearest glacier with a few leftover photomultipliers, you need to go directly to Antarctica and bore a three kilometer hole into the ice. And projects where the MVP is quite expensive are always very hard to get funded.

As a SR-71 fan, I fully support the decision.

And as a connoisseurs of project management disasters, I'm going to get popcorn.

I would expect an infinite loop

    while(true) std::this_thread::yield(); 

to be designed to play nice with the scheduler, while I would assume a infinite loop

    while(true);

to not play nice with the scheduler. Now, I can't really imagine where this matters except for horrible hacky attempts at faking a real time scheduler on windows, but breaking horrible hacky attempts at faking a real time scheduler sounds like the kind of bug you hear about in the evening news.

Aww, script kiddies first technical document. ... (checks calender) Actually it's 2026, probably someone just typed "Stop me eating ice cream" into claude code instead of the chat interface.

Since they downsized apparently in March, it is likely that the sellers on Amazon mentioning 51g very prominently are just selling off old stock.

The paper is from the 30th of April this year, openAi announced the counter example to the unit distance problem on the 20th of May. That is to say this paper seems to have aged not much but quite poorly.

It impressive how prescient the technology feels. I mean in 2020 I would have thought the fully automated kitchen and the voice that asks which poem one wants to hear as fanciful, now it's kinda tech demo level.

Related, a writing advice I stole from Neal Stephenson is to write the first draft by hand. The thing is, there are a lot of small corrections where you kinda should change the text but nah, and if you already committed to copy the entire thing than you are already working at that sentence anyhow.

The author is a mathematician and I think to a certain extend the tweet reflects the current panic among (some) mathematicians. So ~~second sentence~~ third paragraph the claim that somehow ai could right now write a phd in physics or sociology is something we don't observe (at the moment). What we observe is, that ai can find counter examples to well established conjectures in mathematics quite well, but the thing is the other fields don't have the kind of well established riddles that currently produce the flashy results in mathematics.

On the left hand side we see a lot very unhappy carbon.