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mathematician, aspiring quant, reader of things
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Ah yes
November 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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I asked Claude to make a multiple choice quiz for me and it never made A the correct answer:
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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From money stuff
For a while, you could sell $1 of crypto on the US stock market for $2. You could take a tiny public company with a stock market listing but little or no operating business, merge it with a pot of, say, $100 million of Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency, and sell shares of the pot at a $200 million valuation. This is called a “digital asset treasury company,” and it was a great trade and a lot of companies did it, though in recent months it has largely stopped working for the obvious reason (it is dumb).
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I am an rule-utilitarian, I always do what act-utilitarianism tells me to do.
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Claude?
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I hate to LW post, but I think this would be a useful read to some people here:
www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkL...
The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world? — LessWrong
Related to: Leaky Generalizations, Replace the Symbol With The Substance, Sneaking In Connotations …
www.lesswrong.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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peterwildeford.bsky.social
A Chinese state-sponsored threat actor jailbroke Claude into doing real-world cyberattacks.

The AI completed roughly 80–90% of the campaign autonomously, with human operators stepping in only for about 4–6 key decision points.

www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack
www.anthropic.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Did we ever find out who she is? m.youtube.com/watch?v=r6lq...
It's Behind You! Dancer Performs Exercise Routine During Myanmar Military Coup
YouTube video by On Demand News
m.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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claim
An image of Matthew Yglesias quote tweeting Elon Musk: Elon Musk: "Grok Imagine prompt: She smiles and says 'I will always love you'" Matthew Yglesias: "An alternative that takes more work but I also think is more rewarding might be to have a normal relationship instead of three divorces."
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
nmk.wtf
Reddit gives a much better description
November 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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The first time this hit me was when one of my professors referred to some theorem as a technology.
cookierambless.bsky.social cookie √ @cookierambless.bsky.social · 19d
i randomly thought about this thread, looked up the term “technology” from wikipedia and i felt my mind expand!

all my life i’d understood “technology” in its narrower sense—electronic devices, genetic engineering, etc.

when in reality it’s just the application of knowledge that’s reproducible!
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Sometimes the economist is quite funny.
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Claude is really doing some thinking for me
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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TIL
Reddit Comment: RedBaboon • 6y ago • Edited 6y ago It's called a diaeresis; it indicates that the vowel it's on is in a new syllable and not a continuation of the previous vowel. For example, coördinate = co-ordinate not coor-dinate, naïve = ni-eev, not nive. It died as part of the general practice in English of dropping diacritics, the same reason <cafe> is common for café and <resume> or <resumé> for résumé and <canyon> replaced cañon. It sort of survives in naïve and in some names (e.g. Chloë, Zoë), but it's still optional in those places. And it famously survives in its full glory in The New Yorker, if you want to experience it with modern text.
November 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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qntm.org
I love their films but A24 is simply an impractically small paper size
November 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Since upgrading to macos Tahoe my spotlight won't find any files anymore? Anyone else having this problem?
November 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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when you are young life is like a call option
October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Self avoiding random walk
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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These are the numbers for 2025
October 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Does east Asia have cheap rent or expensive housing?
October 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Made some pretty pictures
October 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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We should build a GAN for RL where the generator tries to generate problems that the solver will solve with a 50% chance.
October 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Venting to Claude about interview prep is great!
October 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM