"If someone uploads your paper to Claude or ChatGPT and you get a negative review, that's essentially an algorithm having very strong negative consequences on your career and productivity as an academic," he explained. "You need to publish to keep doing your work. And so trying to prevent this bad behavior, there's a self-defense component to that."

hard assets without sovereign liability – it might make sense to get some just in case

A person who participated in the ceremony even though his faith was incomplete “blesses himself in his heart” (יתברך בלבבו) and was damned, as “his spirit shall be destroyed without pardon”, “all the curses of this covenant shall cling to him, and God will set him apart for evil. He shall be cut off from the midst of all the Sons of Light” (1QS II, 11–18), curses that would terrify and deter any member who was not completely sure of the purity of his thoughts. A member of the yaḥad who refused to participate in the ceremony was considered one who “refuses to enter the covenant of God” (מואס לבוא בברית אל), was immediately expelled from the sect and his sentence was decreed: “unclean! unclean! shall he be” all the days of his life, “he shall neither be purified by atonement, nor cleansed by purifying waters, nor sanctified by seas and rivers…” (1QS II, 26–III, 6). This description is consistent with Josephus’ description (J.W. 2.8.8) of the Essenes who were expelled from their communities and wandered the land, miserable and humiliated.

The true potential of pay per crawl may emerge in an agentic world. What if an agentic paywall could operate entirely programmatically? Imagine asking your favorite deep research program to help you synthesize the latest cancer research or a legal brief, or just help you find the best restaurant in Soho — and then giving that agent a budget to spend to acquire the best and most relevant content. By anchoring our first solution on HTTP response code 402, we enable a future where intelligent agents can programmatically negotiate access to digital resources.

about half of the posts containing LLM-generated comments were deleted for unknown reasons. “It’s very weird to have basically half of your data go missing after the treatment,” Altay says. “It really prevents causal inference.”

A fully isolated virtual machine means Phoenix.new’s fingernails can get arbitrarily dirty. If it wants to add a package to mix.exs, it can do that and then run mix phx.server or mix test and check the output. Sure. Every agent can do that. But if it wants to add an APT package to the base operating system, it can do that too, and make sure it worked. It owns the whole environment.

This offloads a huge amount of tedious, repetitive work.

At this distance the strain is roughly h≈ 10−5. That means that the structures of the inner ear that are maybe a few millimetres large would move by something in the order of a few tens of nanometres. Not much, but given that apparently our ears can pick up displacements of the ear drum of mere picometres that's probably perfectly audible!

fiat prices would also be super high

Also lovely to see that initial graph, almost a validation of Greater Male Variability hypothesis right there.

In a 1992 paper titled "Variability: A Pernicious Hypothesis", Stanford Professor Nel Noddings discussed the social history which she argued explains "the revulsion with which many feminists react to the variability hypothesis."[40]

In 2005, then Harvard President, Larry Summers, addressed the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on the subject of gender diversity in the science and engineering professions, saying: "It does appear that on many, many different human attributes—height, weight, propensity for criminality, overall IQ, mathematical ability, scientific ability—there is relatively clear evidence that whatever the difference in means—which can be debated—there is a difference in the standard deviation, and variability of a male and a female population."[41][42] His remarks caused a backlash; Summers faced a no-confidence vote from the Harvard faculty, prompting his resignation as President.[43][44]

In 2017, a mathematics research paper by Theodore P. Hill and Sergei Tabachnikov, presenting a possible evolutionary explanation for the variability hypothesis, was peer-reviewed, accepted, and formally published in The New York Journal of Mathematics. Three days later, that article was removed and replaced by an unrelated article by different authors.[45] This caused debate within the scientific community and international publicity.[46][47][48] A revised version was subsequently peer reviewed again and published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics.[49]

Sarah's secret weapon? She batches all meetings after 2 PM and uses morning hours when her cognitive load is lowest.

Marcus discovered that starting before his team's online eliminates external interruptions entirely.

Priya's insight: she noticed her energy naturally peaks in early afternoon, so she optimized her schedule around her biological rhythm.

David's rule: only work on tasks that require genuine problem-solving during this window—no routine maintenance or code reviews.

Alex Thompson, "I learned this from a senior dev mentor: protect your best hours like your salary depends on it—because it does. I use this time for feature development exclusively. Everything else gets relegated to my 'shallow work' hours."