deferring to markets • deferring to experts • deferring to low-information heuristics • why they fail • blindness to outliers • what to do instead

This is something that completely fell beneath our radar as it isn't exactly fresh news. In fact, this is something that happened around 3 years ago and many (including ourselves) never caught it. This is why it is just now making its way to a story. But…

A week after deploying Lichess rewritten with scala 3, I had to revert to the scala 2 version. I need help diagnosing a peculiar JVM behaviour.

With the Raspberry Pi Zero still in short supply, are the alternatives in the same (or similar) form-factor worth looking at? Time to find out..

Requiring all riders to wear a helmet has proven negative effects.

I have a LEGO City train set (60336):

The set includes a remote control as well as an app that can be used to control the train. Is it possible to automate the operation of LEGO City trains, ideally

One of the harshest lessons we learned during the recent…

As cybersecurity researchers detail a flaw that allowed them to unlock and start Honda and Nissan cars from anywhere in the world, border and immigration agencies are buying up tech to exploit weaknesses in vehicle security.

The first obvious casualty of large language models is homework: the real training for everyone, though, and the best way to leverage AI, will be in verifying and editing information.

On the logical fallacy of causal projection

A classic Mac loaded with everything you'd want.

Hertz announced a $168 million settlement covering 364 claims against them, at an average of just over $460,000 per customer. There are perhaps a dozen more customers who are suing Hertz, that are not a part of the settlement. I have to think that in many…

Bordier Butter in Brittany, France produces up to 380 tons of butter per year that gets shipped all over the world, to individuals and restaurants alike. They produce different kinds of butter including seaweed butter, yuzu butter, smoked salt butter, and…

Most food safety regulations say that Peking duck should be illegal. But it's not, so what gives?

Armed federal officers publicly threatening to defy orders from the President seems like it’s getting insufficient attention. The Biden administration largely continuing Trump’s border policies (he’s building the wall!) seems under-covered as well. The claim…