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Quantum Computing is about Atoms, not Bits???

(trying to leverage Cunningham's law)

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October 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Humanity Learned Almost Nothing from COVID-19

a rant

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October 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Everywhere I go I see his face
October 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Some Thoughts on the Stupid Successionism Debate

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October 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Trying to implement arbital.com/p/environmen..., but Opus 4.1 tells me it's like attempting to get water flowing uphill.

"Welcome to Alignment Solutions™, where we try to make water flow uphill, keep a snowball white & shiny in hell, and tie a gordian know around hydra's neck…"
September 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
What do numbers look like? (John Williamson, 2018)
(johnhw.github.io/umap_primes/...)

Like this:
September 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
My cheeks don't blush
September 17, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Why did John Conway's elbow look this way
September 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
September 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
No Yield Of Usable Insight From Causal Inference On My Time-Series Data

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July 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
July 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Quintin Pope predicted this

(from www.lesswrong.com/posts/wAczuf...)
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
July 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
New favourite Unicode Block: Sutton SignWriting

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWri...
July 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
June 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
In games, as players get more capable, does the game shift towards attack or defense?

Can be measured through how long the rounds/games are—a shorter round means it's more attack-heavy, longer means defense-heavy.

From Claude Search: **Better players play more defense-heavy**
June 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I wish there was some way the website would give favorite words relative to some more in-distribution distribution
June 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
DALL·E 3 has a hard time figuring out what a baritone is. you play?
June 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
sorry not sorry
June 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
June 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Does anyone here remember meeting Claude at an SF party? I'm curious what he's like
June 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My favorite (sadly defunct) schizo website ever: web.archive.org/web/*/http:/...
June 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM