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It can sell smarter agents that use good old-fashioned decision theory, at least?

Socrates said, "writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory," creating "the appearance of wisdom, not the reality."

I think Socrates was wrong. AI helped me design, code and run the experiment, and write up the results. I vouch for every word.

webbsite.renavon.com is my new platform to continue the public Hong Kong company intelligence and transparency mission after webb-site.com shuts down in late October 2025. The original site built an invaluable resource and inspired advocacy for Hong Kong's commercial ecosystem. My attempt seeks to preserve and expand on David Webb's work with enhanced features and ongoing updates. Feedback and support from the community are welcomed.

A simulation of an autonomous agent learning to navigate and survive in a terminal environment using Bayesian inference and Thompson sampling.

The large music festival will this year be 8.31 to 9.1

I collected Israeli election results from gov.il, but they were a mess, so I had to clean them up. I also eventually found official geodata for the Israeli municipal boundaries, and joined them with the election results. Finally, I created a Shiny app in R putting it all together, using the Leaflet R package to make the interactive map.

The only major downside is how long it takes to initialize...

Archive link: https://archive.ph/Cpb0U

One big mistake in the article: ExpressVPN is in no sense a "US company". It is officially headquartered in the British Virgin Islands, but its operations are run by Chengbao Limited in Hong Kong, which was incorporated in Hong Kong in 2008 https://crhk.guru/company/chengbao-limited-1251650