Computing Tricky Probabilities Using Model Counting(msoos.org)

14 points by zero_k 1 year ago | 4 comments

Anthropic's Project Glasswing Update(schneier.com)

29 points by mikece 4 months ago | 0 comments

Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013)(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

12 points by aragonite 3 months ago | 3 comments

Ross Anderson(schneier.com)

214 points by zdw 2 years ago | 15 comments

Packing a string of digits into an integer quickly(lemire.me)

88 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 15 comments

Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

37 points by andrewstuart 3 years ago | 3 comments

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 18 days ago | 380 comments

Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.

The Art of Finishing(bytedrum.com)

609 points by emmorts 2 years ago | 147 comments

A personal blog essay on the ByteDrum blog about a developer's pile of unfinished side projects and the challenge of actually finishing them.

Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty(blog.tripu.info)

416 points by gasull 3 years ago | 200 comments

A personal blog essay arguing that end-to-end encrypting private data and communications has become an ethical duty, using a glass-walls analogy.

AI is making me dumb(jpain.io)

407 points by Eighth 5 months ago | 247 comments

A personal blog post in which a software developer argues that relying on AI for writing code, articles, and documents is eroding his own writing and programming skills.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.