What Is a Centipawn Advantage?(win-vector.com)

51 points by jmount 8 months ago | 20 comments

Calculating at Pencil and Paper Scale(win-vector.com)

5 points by jmount 1 year ago | 0 comments

How many chess games are possible?(win-vector.com)

62 points by jmount 9 months ago | 30 comments

I want flexible queries, not RAG(win-vector.com)

226 points by jmount 2 years ago | 146 comments

Changing Forecasts for Python Questions on Stack Overflow(win-vector.com)

21 points by jmount 1 year ago | 3 comments

Solving 100 Bushels Using Matrix Factorization(win-vector.com)

28 points by jmount 2 years ago | 9 comments

We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do(derekthompson.org)

826 points by mmcclure 7 months ago | 576 comments

Derek Thompson essay arguing that the spread of gambling and prediction markets in America will cause worse social harm than people expect.

Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake(theatlantic.com)

1229 points by jimbob45 2 years ago | 1081 comments

An Atlantic Ideas essay by Charles Fain Lehman arguing that legalizing sports gambling was a mistake because the betting industry is harming lives.

AI will make formal verification go mainstream(martin.kleppmann.com)

782 points by evankhoury 10 months ago | 394 comments

Martin Kleppmann blog post predicting that AI will bring formal verification with proof assistants like Rocq, Isabelle and Lean into mainstream software engineering.

Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling(theatlantic.com)

472 points by krustyburger 9 months ago | 454 comments

An Atlantic article, syndicated on MSN, by Saahil Desai arguing that America is sliding into a Polymarket-driven world where news becomes about betting.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

Addiction Markets(thebignewsletter.com)

369 points by toomuchtodo 11 months ago | 415 comments

Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter essay arguing corporate-run gambling and online sports betting are economic coercion and should be abolished.