Fall at Botany Pond: The turtles soak up some sun
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All the ducks have gone, and the sky is gray. (People keep asking me,
“Where do you think the ducks are?” My answer is, “My best guess is that
they’ve gone...
Training AIs to Solve CAPTCHAs
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Interesting research:
*Abstract*: Vision-language models (VLMs) can solve visual CAPTCHAs without
task-specific training, but the agents built on them ap...
What Will Exporters Accept Instead of Dollars?
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Selling oil is one thing. Getting paid in something you can use is another.
A country can run a trade surplus and still find itself holding another
gover...
Why Might Aliens Visit Earth?
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I did a web search on the above phrase, in prep for a podcast, and in ten
pages of results didn’t find anything I thought reasonable.
Norwegian Book Shopping
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To me the variety of languages in Europe is highly valuable, something to
cherish. Even if in practice it also provides many hurdles, in order to
bridge la...
Truth Be Told
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*The ultimate truth is revealing the truth of the situation and our
feelings about it are a relief, and the starting point to moving forward in
a positive ...
AI – for whom?
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Artificial intelligence is commonly presented as either a technological
miracle or an existential threat. Yet the most immediate question is
political: who...
Podcasts about the Topic
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“The Topic” being, of course, the Mathocalypse, except sometimes with AI
alignment and even quantum computing and complexity theory and other stuff
thrown ...
Ryan Serhant: How to Get People to Say Yes
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Ryan Serhant is a real estate broker, founder of SERHANT., and star of
Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York and Netflix’s Owning Manhattan.
Public Rel...
How deep is Tulainyo Lake?
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Regular readers may recall that I put a visit to Tulainyo Lake on my bucket
list a few years ago. Last week I did it. Impossibly remote, otherworldly
beaut...
Flawed premises in AI doomerism
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[image: A stack of wavy lines, some more angular waves, a vertical barrier,
lots of pastel ellipses, and a brown ground, with a mechanical flower in
the mi...
Trump Is Definitely Considering Nuking Iran
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Source: Hotpot.aiTrump is in a tight spot with the Iran war and needs to
find a way out before the midterms. A tactical nuclear strike on Iran's
nuclear ...
Climate Etc. is now an archive
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Climate Etc. closed in June 2026 and this site is preserved as a read-only
archive. This feed will not update again -- visit the homepage for where to
find...
Some thoughts about Bondi
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Why did it happen? I think that the combination of four factors (listed
below) was close to a sufficient cause. Sufficient at least to make a
terrorist att...
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