An Ex-Drinker’s Search for a Sober Buzz | The New Yorker
Content Just inside the Athletic Brewing Company’s headquarters, in Stratford, Connecticut, there is a long wooden bar with a selection of non-alcoholic craft…
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Implementing Code Review Feedback: To Squash or Not to Squash?
Should code review feedback be addressed by appending commits or rebasing changes? Combine both approaches with fixup commits!
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Mathematician Answers Chess Problem About Attacking Queens | Quanta Magazine
The n-queens problem is about finding how many different ways queens can be placed on a chessboard so that none attack each other. A mathematician has now all but solved it.
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The Secrets of The World’s Greatest Freediver
1. Rhapsody in Blue For all the complex techniques required to succeed, the objective is remarkably simple: Go as deep as you can go on one breath and return to…
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How truthful is GPT-3? A benchmark for language models - AI Alignment Forum
This is an edited excerpt of a new ML paper (pdf, code) by Stephanie Lin (FHI Oxford), Jacob Hilton (OpenAI) and Owain Evans (FHI Oxford). The paper is under review at NeurIPS. TITLE: TRUTHFULQA: MEASURING HOW MODELS MIMIC HUMAN FALSEHOODS ABSTRACT We propose a benchmark to measure whether a language model is truthful in generating answers to questions. The benchmark comprises 817 questions that span 38 categories, including health, law, finance and politics (see Figure 1). We crafted questio...
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The Myth of the Productive Commute
This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. When you search Getty Images for “commute,” you find a lot of pictures like this one: a well-dressed, totally put-together business person just
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Lumber price falls to $399—down from $1,515 this spring
For the 12th consecutive week, the price of framing lumber is down.
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Rewilding Your Attention
There's a great Twitter thread from Tom Critchlow that responds to the narrative of the "status game" being played online. In particular,...
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“Rewilding Your Attention”
To find truly interesting ideas, step away from the algorithmic feeds of Big Tech
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Why there’s no such thing as the mind and nothing is mental | Aeon Essays
The terms ‘mind’ and ‘mental’ are messy, harmful and distracting. We should get rid of them
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Nichola Raihani - The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World - The Podcast Browser
The Dissenter | 2 September 2021 | 1h 00m | Listen Later | iTunes | Spotify Interview with Nichola Raihani about her book The Social Instinct: How Cooperation…
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This Rare Photo Shows The Most Sensitive Part Of A Combat Aircraft
It look like something Doc Brown would be working on in his garage, but it is absolutely one of the most essential and sensitive technologies found on many military and some civilian aircraft today: The Ring Laser Gyroscope.
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This SR-71 Blackbird Cockpit Tour Is The Most Fascinating Thing You'll See All Week
Veteran SR-71 pilot gives a highly detailed tour of both cockpits and shares incredible recollections from his time flying the legendary jet.
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Why are hyperlinks blue? | The Mozilla Blog
The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ev
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SR-71's "R2-D2" Could Be The Key To Winning Future Fights In GPS Denied Environments
Our ancestors did it and so did the SR-71 Blackbird, now this ancient form of navigation could be set for a major comeback.
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The Hard Problem of Consciousness Has an Easy Part We Can Solve - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
Our General Resonance Theory of consciousness, a framework with a panpsychist foundation, may, at least in theory, provide more complete…
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How I lost my passion as a Software Developer
Have you ever felt so tired at work that you just want to go home, turn off your phone, take a long hot shower, snuggle up in your bed in a…
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Vacation isn’t the answer to employee burnout
Employees are burned out. Here’s what’s really causing it.
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America's Aerospace Industry is Regenerating - Austin Vernon's Blog
The Old Guard Decays America's traditional aerospace industry has gone from world dominance to decay. The Fall of Boeing Boeing has historically maintained a…
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Where's the Next Andy Roddick?
Everything was normal and nothing was weird when a spiky-haired Andy Roddick, after beating Juan Carlos Ferrero to win the U.S. Open in 2003, went on the Late…
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Cyberpunk is Dead
In cyberpunk, the physical configurations of human bodies tend to express their own utopian political dimension.
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Why William Gibson Is a Literary Genius
Forty years after his breakout story, “Johnny Mnemonic,” the father of cyberpunk remains one of the best writers around
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Say Cheese! How Bad Photography Has Changed Our Definition of Good Pictures
[caption id="attachment_84830" align="aligncenter" width="625"] "How To Make Good Pictures" (Rochester, NY: Eastman Kodak Co., 1943). Source: Collection o...
