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Just like pilots, SREs will have to spend a minimum number of annual hours in the simulator to keep their skills sharp.

I use DoorDash all the time. Here in urban San Diego, there are lots of restaurants with no nearby parking – so you either have to park blocks away in a residential neighborhood or have a companion who can grab the food while the driver circles the block. Or carry your tacos home on the bus.

The Center for Principled Agentic Intelligence (CPAi) is a partnership between the UC San Diego Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing and the School of Arts and Humanities. Bringing together researchers across data and computer science, high-performance computing, arts and humanities, the center will study the broader questions advanced AI systems raise about human values, oversight and accountability — and determine when trust in them is warranted.

See also this recent post on the practicalities and rationales of a Land Value Text: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-yea...

Are we slowly discovering what evolution already "realized" via optimization of human brains? i.e., procedural knowledge is easier to maintain than a library of facts, and facts can be accessed in external repositories if one knows the procedure for doing so.

The U.S. Department of Energy has partnered with private companies for a $100 billion investment to transform the former Paducah Site in Kentucky into a massive artificial intelligence data center and energy hub.

The correct response for each word is ALMOST always the longest answer.

My favorite of the several I generated this evening:

https://halupedia.com/recursive-trolley-problem

Superfetation, the simultaneous occurrence of multiple stages of developing offspring, is extremely rare in humans, with only a handful of confirmed cases.

So... Visicalc?

Archival footage from 1984 reveals the complex, manual process required to send early electronic mail via rotary phones and primitive networks.

A systematic survey of 2,430 tool picks from Claude Code across 3 models, 4 project types, and 20 categories, showing the tech stack Claude Code actually chooses most often.

A 20-year study involving 2,800 healthy adults aged 65 and older found that those who completed specific computerized speed training, which involved quickly identifying flashing objects, lowered their risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease by 25% compared to a control group. Participants in the speed training group initially received five weeks of two weekly sessions, and the group that showed the most benefit also received eight additional “booster” sessions across the following three years. This training, called Double Decision, focuses on improving visual speed, divided attention, and peripheral vision; researchers theorize the reduced risk is due to procedural learning, which drives a lasting, fundamental change in the brain similar to learning a skill like riding a bicycle.