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The Illusion of Causality in Charts

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A while back, I wrote an article here titled “Implied Causality in Line Charts.” The article...
A while back, I wrote an article here titled “Implied Causality in Line Charts.” The article examined the notion that certain charts imply a causal relationship between an event and an outcome, when such a relationship may not actually exist. In that post, I used line charts as a running example. I identified three ...
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Classicide

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Intentional destruction of a social class Classicide is a concept proposed by sociologist Michael Mann to...
Intentional destruction of a social class Classicide is a concept proposed by sociologist Michael Mann to describe the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of a social class through persecution and violence.[1][2] Although it was first used by physician and anti-communist activist Fred Schwarz...
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The Trackers and SDKs in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Perplexity

jamesoclaire.com

Well for a quick weekend recap I’m going to look at which 3rd party SDKs and...
Well for a quick weekend recap I’m going to look at which 3rd party SDKs and API calls I can find in the big 4 Android chat apps based. We’ll be using free data from AppGoblin which you can feel free to browse at any of the links below or on tables. Data is collected via de-compiled SDKs and MITM API traffic. Let’s ...
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Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots

lambdacreate.com

U G H. For some reason my quaint little piece of the internet has suddenly been...
U G H. For some reason my quaint little piece of the internet has suddenly been inundated with unwanted guests. Now normally speaking I would be over joyed with having more guests to this tiny part of the internet. Come inside the cozy little server room, we have podcasts to drown out the noise of the fans, and plen...
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Investment Risk Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowest for Solar

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The Book of Secret Knowledge

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Webb telescope helps refines Hubble constant, suggesting resolution rate debate

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She Got an Abortion. So a Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down

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Deeplinks Blog by Josh Richman | May 7, 2025 We all leave digital trails as we...
Deeplinks Blog by Josh Richman | May 7, 2025 We all leave digital trails as we navigate the internet – records of what we searched for, what we bought, who we talked to, where we went or want to go in the real world – and those trails usually are owned by the big corporations behind the platforms we...
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Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300k deaths – most of them children

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When Brooke Nichols plugged in the data, she couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing.The mathematician and...
When Brooke Nichols plugged in the data, she couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing.The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.What Nichols had not appreciated was wh...
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Randomness Requirements for Security

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Network Working Group D. Eastlake, 3rd Request for Comments: 4086 Motorola Laboratories BCP: 106 J. Schiller...
Network Working Group D. Eastlake, 3rd Request for Comments: 4086 Motorola Laboratories BCP: 106 J. Schiller Obsoletes: 1750 MIT Category: Best Current Practice S. Crocker June 2005 Randomness Requirements for Security Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Co...
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Robot is 3D-printed upside-down in one piece, then walks out of the printer

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Gradients Are the New Intervals

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At the New England Symposium on Graphics, James Tompkin compared graphics researchers to magpies: they're easily...
At the New England Symposium on Graphics, James Tompkin compared graphics researchers to magpies: they're easily distracted by shiny objects and pretty renderings. While this is true, the analogy also holds from a different angle: when I'm reading graphics papers, I'm constantly looking for ideas to steal bring back...
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L.A. council backs $30 minimum wage for tourism workers, despite warnings

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The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to approve a sweeping package of minimum wage increases...
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to approve a sweeping package of minimum wage increases for workers in the tourism industry, despite objections from business leaders who warned that the region is already facing a slowdown in international travel.The proposal, billed by labor leaders as the highest minim...

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Oldest known tools made from whale bones dated to 20k years ago

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NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from...
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone.The bones, fashioned into narrow projectiles for hunting, had been uncovered in excavations dating back over a century in the Bay of Biscay near Spain and France. Scientists figured the tools were quite ancien...

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Google Duo will be replaced by Google Meet in Sept 2025

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The Google Duo brand went away in 2022, but some legacy features from the company’s previous...
The Google Duo brand went away in 2022, but some legacy features from the company’s previous calling service have persisted in Google Meet. All aspects of Duo are now set to disappear in September 2025. Google Meet app users are seeing the following message: Google Duo technology is still in use for “Legacy calls.” ...
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Beware of Fast-Math

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One of my more frequent rants, both online and in person, is the danger posed by...
One of my more frequent rants, both online and in person, is the danger posed by the "fast-math" compiler flag. While these rants may elicit resigned acknowledgment from those who already understand the dangers involved, they do little to help those who don't. So given the remarkable paucity of writing on the topic ...
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Identifying Unmarked Iron

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Identifying Unmarked Iron Preface Before we start, it's important to note that what collectors call "unmarked"...
Identifying Unmarked Iron Preface Before we start, it's important to note that what collectors call "unmarked" ware does not necessarily pertain to just any piece which simply has no markings. Many small foundries of the 18th and 19th centuries put no markings as to maker on their pieces. Perhaps they only served a ...

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Learn touch typing – it's worth it

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This is a short, personal story about my typing journey I started learning touch typing near...
This is a short, personal story about my typing journey I started learning touch typing near the end of my first year of computer science. This was my second degree as I had already done engineering before. I wasn't able to get a tech internship the first summer after one year of computer science despite countless a...

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Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)

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Cerebras Breaks the 2,500 Tokens Per Second Barrier with Llama 4 Maverick 400BSUNNYVALE CA – May...
Cerebras Breaks the 2,500 Tokens Per Second Barrier with Llama 4 Maverick 400BSUNNYVALE CA – May 28, 2025 -- Last week, Nvidia announced that 8 Blackwell GPUs in a DGX B200 could demonstrate 1,000 tokens per second (TPS) per user on Meta’s Llama 4 Maverick. Today, the same independent benchmark firm Artificial Analy...
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AccessOwl (YC S22) is hiring an AI TypeScript Engineer to connect 100s of SaaS

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Managing your Employees' Access to SaaS€70K - €90K EUR / 0.05% - 0.10%Berlin, BE, DE /...
Managing your Employees' Access to SaaS€70K - €90K EUR / 0.05% - 0.10%Berlin, BE, DE / ES / PT / PL / AT / CZ / HU / SK / RO / SI / HR / RS / BA / IT / CH / NL / BE / FR / GB / GR / BG / Remote (Berlin, BE, DE; ES; PT; PL; AT;...
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What's Working for YC Companies Since the AI Boom

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The goal of this analysis was to understand what’s working for YC companies by looking at...
The goal of this analysis was to understand what’s working for YC companies by looking at which ones have raised Series A rounds.I was really excited to take a look at the data for a number of reasons:We finally have 2 years of batch data since ChatGPT started the AI boom, which gives us some meat to analyze.YC is a...
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AI Responses May Include Mistakes

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The other day I wanted to look up a specific IBM PS/2 model, a circa 1992...
The other day I wanted to look up a specific IBM PS/2 model, a circa 1992 PS/2 Server system. So I punched the model into Google, and got this: That did not look quite right, since the machine I was looking for had 486 processors (yes, plural). And it most certainly did use Microchannel (MCA). Alright, let’s try aga...
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Why incels take the "Blackpill"–and why we should care

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Incels constitute a fairly small fraction of the manosphere, but the vast majority of incels appear...
Incels constitute a fairly small fraction of the manosphere, but the vast majority of incels appear to embrace the Blackpill ideology, per Beckett-Herbert. That nihilistic attitude can extend to any kind of participation in what incels term "Soyciety"—including educational attainment and employment. When that happen...
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Simpler Backoff

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