I didn't know nefarious is considered antiquated.

By the way, you don't need to speak the language to become Scrabble World Champion.

Any of the Blockstream people working on post-quantum-Bitcoin, cfr #1367227

It'd be refreshing to have some technical people shine in on the topic.

Antonopoulos. But I think he's all in on his Patreon these days, so might be hard.

Sorry didn't notice I'm just a miserable dupe: #1403077

Aha, seems like Cameron used the real Scoresby as reference for the whaler in Avatar who dies in the last installment. That was what triggered my not-so-cultured RIP reference.

I'm sorry. My initial post was less cryptic~~ it would have avoided said dropping of the heart.

Check the origin of his nym ;)

@Scoresby RIP.

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I'll look for it on your github~~

The paper is of decent length already (35 pages), and I think it'll get longer as more exercises and robustness checks are suggested.

Damn, that's like nearly a factor of magnitude longer than many physics papers.
Is this standard in your field?

Related to all this is my general apathy and loss of trust in benchmarks in 2025. The core issue is that benchmarks are almost by construction verifiable environments and are therefore immediately susceptible to RLVR and weaker forms of it via synthetic data generation. In the typical benchmaxxing process, teams in LLM labs inevitably construct environments adjacent to little pockets of the embedding space occupied by benchmarks and grow jaggies to cover them. Training on the test set is a new art form.

Spot on.

getting that upvote from a human on the LM Arena

LOL

Creating these materials demands a deep understanding of atomic-level behavior, an area that is still far from fully understood. Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), working with colleagues at the University of Salerno and the CNR-SPIN Institute (Italy), have now made a significant advance by identifying a hidden form of geometry that was previously only predicted by theory. This geometry alters the paths followed by electrons in a way that resembles how gravity curves the path of light. Their findings, published in Science, point to new possibilities for quantum electronics.

I'm confused by the analogy made with gravity. Based on my limited experience, I mostly see quantum geometry as a mathematical construct to describe the electrons wave function, so it would be nice to get a more intuitive understanding of it. Leaving this comment so i get back to it later.

The TA-guru playbook, make sure he's right either way:

• if indeed Bitcoin fiat value crashes in the next few months, he will claim it validates his claim that everyone is dumping coz of people not taking the quantum threat seriously...
• if it doesn't crash, he can say that he singlehandedly saved Bitcoin with his quantum threat manifestos~~

Nice share by @winteryeti that I missed yesterday on the importance of introducing babies to peanuts early on to actually improve their chances of not developing a peanut allergy: #1359224.

Ozone hole shrinks
The hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has shrunk to its smallest size since 2019, indicating the continued recovery of Earth’s protective upper atmosphere.

The ozone hole was first discovered in 1985 and is a result of human-emitted ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), such as coolants in refrigerators and aerosol sprays. The Montreal Protocol in 1987 phased out the production and use of CFCs, which has successfully curbed emissions1. Since 1987, the average size of the ozone hole throughout the year has been gradually decreasing in size, with the smallest so far in 2019.

The ozone hole is on track to recover completely in the late 2060s, provided efforts to find climate-friendly alternatives to CFCs continues.

I remember as a kid that the hole in the ozone layer was a very big deal, they kept mentioning it at school... so indeed, it's good to read that a simple change in human behavior has been able to reverse this worrying trend.

The following one is actually very cool and I did not know that. I do remember that at the hospital, they were much more stimulating us to let our kid discover different foods compared to what my parents used to believe to be the proper way to feed us.

Peanut allergies plummet
A study showed that peanut allergies in children have fallen in the United States in the past decade, in a major victory for science-based policy and decision-making5. For years, parents were told not to expose their babies to peanuts to prevent dangerous allergic reactions. But a landmark study6 in 2015 found the opposite to be true — when infants are introduced to peanut products as early as four months old, they are much less likely to become allergic to them. The study led to a change in health guidelines between 2015 and 2017.

Now, there has been a 43% decrease in peanut-allergy prevalence in children under three in the United States, compared with 2012. The same method of exposing infants to a variety of allergens also led to a 36% reduction in other food allergies. “This is a good year to have a peanut allergy or a food allergy,” says Michael Pistiner, a paediatric allergist at Mass General Brigham for Children in Boston, Massachusetts. “So much of our field has been witnessing changes for the better, this particular year has been exciting.”

“This is a great example of translating controlled trial findings into broader community level outcomes,” Pistiner says.

I remember similar claims where, later it turned out the measurements had contaminated the samples with compounds from the earth.

Looking at the video and the mention of the clean room, I will assume that they took good care of avoiding such contamination.

Pretty cool observation indeed if true.

Most individuals diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder will later receive at least one additional diagnosis during their lifetime, complicating both diagnosis and treatment. Although life experiences and environmental factors shape this risk, inherited genetic factors also contribute substantially.

This correlates with something my wife said to me the other day: people who suffer from one bad disease often also suffer from other bad diseases. It's like a small portion of the population will be carry most of the problems, kinda lika a pareto distribution of stuff: 20% of people suffer from 80% of the diseases.

Of course, if this was genetic or environmental, we could not say, but this study (published in Nature) seems to show that the former plays an important role in this occurrence of additional diagnosis for psychiatric disorders.

Yeah, he's been pretty obsessively reporting on this.

I did not realize how explicit the actual trafficking of women was.