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wbl··on RacketCon Is Saturday
Hygenic macros and the DSL they enable are fantastic ways to prototype things that then inspired stuff like LINQ.
wbl··on Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics
"There is no royal road to Geometry" - Euclid. Mathematical knowledge isn't from tutoring but doing. And no one is against the AI helping explain the tricky parts to help you practice. Rather it's about dumping a giant bunch of low quality text with some Lean claiming a big result is done.
wbl··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
Because the redacted bits tell you what the crooks are doing wrong.
wbl··on Scientists build most accurate atomic clock
There are ways using modulated lasers to read out small rubidium cells vs the complexities of the lamp approach.
wbl··on Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
There was a problem with the name: toxic mine trailings weren't what was wanted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_Tunnel
wbl··on LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest
Its only high quality of this their thoughts. Autotranslation is different from choosing to have AI shape the expression permanently.
wbl··on Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies
Fibre rolls in a dense city have different economics from somewhere with just a few people per square mile.
wbl··on CIA Releases President's Daily Briefs in Commemoration of 9/11
The PDB contains multiple topics.
wbl··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
Open problems are not that yardstick. Fermat's Last Theorem is the result of Wiles and Wiles-Taylor, but without key results from Serre, Ribet, Ihara, Langlands-Tunnels, and Frey's program none of what Wiles did would work. But Wiles did get the prize. Nowadays I think the inputs have shrunk a bit by doing more in the R=T theorem so less other cleverness needed.
wbl··on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
The engineering library of your local college has all the information needed for ballistic guidance systems.
wbl··on NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami
They were over takeoff velocity at that point and could have bounced up in the air and waited for the thrust to come. Would have been sketchy but better than what did happen.
wbl··on NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami
There is one thing an airline never wants to have happen and it is a fatal accident. Everything else is secondary. Having one caused by corporate policy would lead to mass exodus of passengers.
wbl··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
And OpenAI confirmed it!
wbl··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
The theorem might not be encoded correctly, as happened with the Riemann hypothesis thanks to how numbers are encoded.
wbl··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Very careful human examination. This can be tricky.
wbl··on New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal
Insider trading is legal in commodities markets. If I am engaged in a hedging transaction I am doing so because I know about risks that I want to offload, and the buyer does also. You don't come to commodities markets without information.
wbl··on Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
The government does not control the words you or I use to refer to things.
wbl··on Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
Standard Oil was sued for keeping low prices thanks to vertical integration prompting the classic quip about antitrust litigation.
wbl··on The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified
US higher education is that pipeline now, and it didn't exist in the 1930's and 1940's the way it does now.
wbl··on Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept
VTOL opens up a lot of fun basing options. I'm a little surprised Finland eschewed it.
wbl··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
The feature set of a browser is set by competitors and what sites use. If you don't strive to play that game you're irrelevant.
wbl··on Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept
The F-22 cannot do half the things the F-35 can. Yeah it's fantastic as an air superiority fighter, but the multirole versatility makes the F-35 the one plane most air forces need to have.
wbl··on Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept
The DoD changing its mind several times did not do the F-35 project any favors
wbl··on I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
In the Vietnam war the US didn't win because it couldn't, no matter how much force was employed. Here same thing: we can't depose the Iranian government without a land invasion (which is too costly) and nothing else keeps them from having control of the strait.
wbl··on I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
You'll notice that the aircraft carrier continues sortie generation. What's causing us to lose is failure to achieve victory due to the means employed not the enemy constraining our freedom of action through force. Not to say it's great: it sucks to be on the ship for this, but if Hezbollah murdered 3,000 Americans the shortage wouldn't make the news amid our invading Iran.
wbl··on Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting
SUNDIAL says hello.
wbl··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
I don't think you get the compensation for devs capable of working on this stuff.
wbl··on Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones
And the military has JDAM with HOJ as a solution for jamming
wbl··on Creepy Crawlies
If every site does it the scrapers will adapt. The scrapers will always have a cost advantage over real users for this.
wbl··on European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
The more democratic the EU the less sovereign legitimacy countries have. That's the tension that makes Euroskeptic parties oppose reforms.
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