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Re: on Saturday August 01, 2026 @02:15AM (#49131596)

Possible mathematics development. The full paper has yet to be released afaik.

Pyongyang Once Had a Muslim Governor (Probably)

Posted by Lost-Futures on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @04:41PM
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https://lostfutures.substack.com/p/pyongyang-once-had-a-muslim-governor

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When Was the First Islamic Voyage to the Americas?

Posted by Lost-Futures on Sunday May 24, 2026 @12:21AM
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https://lostfutures.substack.com/p/when-was-the-first-islamic-voyage

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Re:An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geom... on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @08:29PM (#48216235)

Ngl, this sounds like a defensive coping mechanism

Re:Elon Musk's SpaceX initial public offering filing reveals losses on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @06:32PM (#48215191)

$13 billion since 2023 doesn't sound that bad imo, but maybe I'm naive? Starship isn't a cheap project.

Medieval China's Lost Ocean Empire

Posted by Lost-Futures on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @06:28PM
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https://lostfutures.substack.com/p/chinas-forgotten-maritime-empire

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Egypt's Forgotten Industrial Revolution

Posted by Lost-Futures on Sunday April 19, 2026 @04:26PM
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https://lostfutures.substack.com/p/egypts-forgotten-industrial-revolution

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Re:The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright on Friday April 03, 2026 @08:50PM (#47634352)

As student I had privilege of visiting Taliesin West in Arizona. Easily my favorite architect, a true artist.

Re:Y Combinator's CEO says he ships 37,000 lines of AI code per day on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:55PM (#47633936)

I still don't understand this trend of measuring productivity by lines of code shipped. Goodhart's law can apply to any metric but this is an exceptional bad and gameable one.