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It is interesting to apply probability theory in various situations in which we can’t always reduce it to numbers very well, but still it shows automatically what kind of information would be...

The cypherpunk movement laid the ideological roots of Bitcoin and the online drug market Silk Road; balancing previous emphasis on cryptography, I emphasize the non-cryptographic market aspects of...

The future of technology isn’t what it used to be—a discussion of the collapse of Japanese influence on technology & design.

When should one review? In the morning? In the evening? Any old time?

Setting this up in JS turned out to be a little tricky since there is no built-in function for getting day-of-year or for hashing numbers/strings; so rather than spend another 10 lines copy-pasting...

A number of other datasets are known to exist but are unavailable or available only in restricted form, including: law enforcement scrapes (see the Force briefing ), seized server images National...

GPT-3, announced by OpenAI in May 2020, is the largest neural network ever trained, by over an order of magnitude.

A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are...

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A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.