Do you have thoughts on the naval rework of the last patch? I tried a game as the UK and was a bit confused as to what made a good scouting force now, since you need them to build naval dominance. It feels like they shifted the theory of "what navies are for" but I don’t see what the new thesis is.

My favorite part is that Chotiner probably only became aware of that short fluff piece because it links to an interview he did with an actual expert on how MBS wormed his way back in the US’s good graces.

Please stop adulterating the name of the Manhattan Project, or of a "moonshot", for programs that are insignificant in comparison.

Of course the return on investment in Neural Nets and quantum computing for society is probably heading fast towards negative so maybe it’s a blessing?

Noah really is Temu Tyler Cowen:
-GMU
-Starts interesting blog
-Gets high on Twitter praise
-Fries brain as Twitter shifts

Blomberg-Fritsch but it’s even dumber and more made up.

FYI the article is suspicious, there is not really a physical mechanism proposed and the galaxy sample they use seems cherry-picked to give them the two populations the authors want. This is not five sigma science.

Fun fact: it's only a citation if it comes from someone working at CITA, otherwise it's just a sparkling reference.

The unit for weighing gemstones, the carat, is derived from "carob" because the seeds were about the right weight.

Sometimes Elon needs more than just a hand. Sometime he needs 3.

*dry heaves* do you think it was a sex thing *retches*

We should make flash cards

Also the reviewers who looked at figure 1 and didn’t yeet it back to the authors.

Ear so down to the ground worms are crawling in.

OK, but:

C++ Because sometimes you need the power tools

Is stat mech an upper level class? I think it is the most useful class I took to understand astro during my whole physics education.