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25 stories and discussions about often, aggregated from every source we track.
[I shared this note with my team earlier this week, and am posting it here as well. I hope it is interesting or helpful for others working on building product in the age of AI.]
It’s often expedient to discuss the “happy path”, which is the ideal or most simple flow of logic through a system. While it’s a great tool for conversation...
Highly qualified but often inexperienced young teachers deliver carefully structured content to students, pushing them...
Biology is often seen as an experimental science, with theory serving to generalize patterns from empirical data. But history reveals that theory plays a more generative role in discovery itself.
A small peer-to-peer ledger whose ethics gate fails closed: two distilled student judges in-process, a semantic judge beside them, a panel of online teachers that must agree before a row teaches, a...
Kids who blink more often show stronger mental flexibility and a distinct pattern of prefrontal brain activity, even after adjusting for age.
There’s often a short window between realizing the right thing to do and doing it, where a person goes crazy for a bit. ...
How often The New York Times mentioned each company and country, week by week since 2000. Click a bucket to see its timeline.
Large language model (LLM) agents often handle streams of related tasks, yet standard harnesses repeatedly ask the model to reconstruct the same control decisions inside each task's context. We study whether task…
npm's new packages trip risk signals 3x as often as Go's. Across 10.7M packages, here's why that gap is mostly ecosystem noise, not danger.
I often enjoy posting a “bug-of-the week” on X.Following a recent bug post,someone asked me how I found such bugs:
One thing that makes caring about tech privacy issues difficult is that rather than getting solved, they often just get replaced with bigger ones. Mounting a fight against red light or speed cameras might slow their…
Our test tools often make it very easy to abuse mocks. This post provides some guidelines on using them properly by relying on explicit contracts.
The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one. A hard startup requires a lot more money, time, coordination, or...
An extremely deep-dive into the often forgotten, but incredibly useful Proxy and Reflect objects by JavaScript for Everyone's Mat Marquis.
How often do people in high-burden areas get malaria? Studies suggest that many children can experience five or more malaria infections a year.
Often times, I get the urge to go build a cabin somewhere remote and live there or get some land away from the city and live off it. I guess Im not really sa...
How often do chosen inputs collide? Reproducible examples, machine-checked collision bounds, and the speed of fast hash functions.
<p>I have no particular insight into the future. The truth is that the only constant is change. I used to and still like the community on this site. The thing I like most is that I could always learn new things.</p> <p>The posted articles were often deep and interesting, often out of my depth, but the discussions here were often deeper and more thoughtful. I hope those people are still here.</p> <p>Recently there has been an increase in pessimism on this site and perhaps that is what has brought incivility with it. And that increases the pessimism. They feed each other. One of the few perpetual motion machines that are real.</p> <p>There is a corresponding perpetual motion machine that is started by compassion and drives thoughtfulness whic feeds compassion and so on.</p> <p>Anyway. If you came here because you like computing and want to learn more about it I think you’re still in the right place, but you have to be careful of which one of the perpetual motion machines you want to watch and perhaps give a nudge to.</p> <p>I don’t know the future for sure, but yours will be bright.</p> <p>There will be less cancer, less toil, better social contact, more love and less war.</p> <p>This is because you will pick the right machine.</p>