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Service costs aren't exploding anymore

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Assuming 40% operational readiness in Russian LRA the confirmed impact of damaged and destroyed aircraft is 25-30% of the fleet. If readiness is lower then this goes to 35%+. These are rough estimates.

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great point in here that hadn't occurred to me. battery storage is an great complement to solar PV not just because you can charge them with excess solar, but any type of generator www.construction-physics.com/p/can-we-aff...

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

Fascinating interview with a private drone designer for the RU military. His knowledge of UKR & Western drones is limited and should be taken with some skepticism but he still presents a quite candid picture into the current state of unmanned warfare:🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfN...

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New Post: Vibe Coding for Domain Experts (Or, how I managed to release a better version of a Python package I maintain in a few hours) Plus an example of vibe coding in teaching thescoop.org/archives/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

What we know so far about the Iberian power outage:

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Even if you don’t use it that way, AI is often used as an accessibility tool that helps many of us to accomplish tasks more efficiently & comfortably than otherwise would be possible. (enabling us to complete tasks we might otherwise avoid or be unable to do at all.) examples: bit.ly/43rQMSM

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We are leaving data behind in clinical trials…and shooting ourselves in the foot for the future. There are going to be “haves” and “have nots” of diseases and conditions that get new breakthroughs powered by AI. But there’s things you and I can do today to fix this: bit.ly/4mCfwRb

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my favorite underdiscussed long term trend: www.orcasciences.com/articles/the...

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GitHub MCP suffers from the lethal trifecta for prompt injection: access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions + the ability to exfiltrate information Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...

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I put together an annotated version of the new Claude 4 system prompt, covering both the prompt Anthropic published and the missing, leaked sections that describe its various tools It's basically the secret missing manual for Claude 4, it's fascinating! simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/...

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Uncertainties and risks inherent in AI call for more cooperation, less competition aiprospects.substack.com/p/dont-bet-t...

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45 years ago today, Mount St. Helens erupted, killing 57 people and spewing 540 million tons of ash, which traveled the world. It’s a moment we will never forget. We conducted a moment of silence today to remember those who died.

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Anyone want to start a charity to distribute high quality kits? I’ll buy the first ten and work the bill of materials. ‘a tiny solar panel paired w/a battery that provides indoor lighting and charges mobile phones can save ~$70/ye, exceeding the one-time hardware cost of the solar-plus-battery kit’

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Hell yeah, it sounds like anthropic are really going to push to differentiate themselves from their competitors on the strength of their mechanistic interpretability work

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Meet Romulus and Remus, two cloned gray wolves that contain 15 gene modifications that have been selected to make them more similar to the dire wolves, a species that has been extinct for > 12,000 years! 🧪 Press release: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20... 1/n

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Two nuclear powers are on the brink of war. India just launched missile strikes against Pakistan after an attack killed 27 tourists in Kashmir. Here's what happens next, with probabilities. Read here peterwildeford.substack.com/p/india-paki... or follow along for a thread! 🧵

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Something I found interesting about reading this thread is that it made me wonder how many people think of ChatGPT as primarily a tool for writing things for you I use ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini possibly 100+ times a day and NONE of those uses are to produce writing that I then share with other people

submitted 33 days ago • 21 comments

www.palladiummag.com/2025/02/14/w...

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Finding high-leverage work https://www.benkuhn.net/impact/

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What if we talk more about passive impact, and not just passive income, when thinking about the opportunities to build new things? bit.ly/4juoVrT

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Pretty wild that a rare atmospheric phenomenon might have caused those blackouts in Portugal and Spain. Could foretell what will happen when a Carrington-level solar storm next hits our planet. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

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"A century of technological progress in a decade looks likely even under conservative assumptions." BIG assertion that warrants a read of this report by Will MacAskill & @finmoorhouse.bsky.social www.forethought.org/research/pre...

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Bothell Man doing us proud ❤️ www.king5.com/article/news...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

A good read. As someone who falls into category of independent researcher (aka “experienced misfit” as described here), if you’re interested in supporting these roles and this type of effort in the world, the action items suggested in this article are a good start.

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Absolutely nobody asked for this but I reformatted my animal yeetability thread into printable poster & zine files. Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below.

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I wrote an extended essay attempting to: - Synthesize the zeitgeist around universities, our research ecosystem, and technological stagnation - Argue that part of the solution unbundling the roles the university has monopolized - Suggest concrete actions to do that unbundle-the-university.com

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/...

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