Sunday, June 1, 2025

The dubious lesson of the Carpathia

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So right now I'm at LessOnline , the LessWrong conference centered on writing about rationality-related topics, and I encountered a ver...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Looking too available is a security risk! The new NIST standard.

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NIST IR 8429-DRAFT: Presence Obfuscation in Federated Scheduling Systems I've always been a little worried about peopl...
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Monday, April 1, 2024

Hyperlinks for emails?

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It's looking like we could be able to hyperlink to emails soon! No more of this "oh uh check your email for the one I sent at 11:27...
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Thursday, February 22, 2024

Setting short-selling straight; or, "But who let you short that?"

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You might not be aware, but I've been short-selling some cryptocurrencies. (I would have said "been making money short-selling cry...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

A serious paper on bits as Joules per Kelvin

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My ramblings about thermodynamics aren't so off-base, it turns out! Remember this one? From 2009? Where I explained how Joules per Ke...
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Sunday, May 21, 2023

ChatGPT4 refines my argument about fish being bad swimming instructors

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I finally splurged for a paid ChatGPT subscription! With access to GPT-4, I asked it to refine my earlier argument about fish being bad swi...
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Thursday, August 25, 2022

Extended shower thought: Fish would be bad swimming instructors

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Obligatory epistemic status : Speculative and hard to test but falls out an as implication under current worldmodel. Just a shower thought I...
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