Why America keeps losing wars
Willpower matters.
How Enigma Worked
Nice explainer.
Everybody’s Lost Their Minds
Yes they did. “despite having found literally thousands of new vulnerabilities (only a fraction of which were reported to Open Source projects, by the way), I don’t think that we’re any safer than before. That’s because finding vulnerabilities has never… Read More »Everybody’s Lost Their Minds
Did Odysseus Cause the Bronze Age Collapse?
Is there any truth in it? “Near the film’s climax, Penelope talks to Odysseus and finally realizes the truth—they are the Sea People. The ravaging horde destroying civilization is simply their triumphant warriors, returning home, having lost all sense of… Read More »Did Odysseus Cause the Bronze Age Collapse?
Interview with Big Data engineer in 2026
Eventual consistency was too hard so we opted for immediately wrong.
The best football player does not play…
Coaching matters.
Viruses Killing Cancer
Not as easy as it looks.
Farm the Ocean
Why don’t we? “It would be much cheaper and healthier to drop iron in the ocean and harvest the fish than to have millions of square kilometers of pasture for animals like cows. This would allow us then to convert… Read More »Farm the Ocean
Why Are Tropical Waters Dead, and Can They Kill Europe?
Pretty does not always mean healthy. “You know why tropical waters are so transparent?Because they’re dead.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/tropical-waters-are-dead-and-europe-might-freeze
dario, please!
Why we keep trusting CEOs when their incentive is just to make more money? “I feel like Dario is torn. He wants Anthropic to have this bad boy street cred of wielders of this crazy power, yet at the same… Read More »dario, please!