Book Review of Breakneck from Noah Smith, endorsed

On China and rare earths

Rotating detonation engines

Progress in pan-cancer therapy

DOGE and its consequences in the federal government

The AI revolution in radiology that never was

Pictures of the old and new colliding (bonus)

Learning fashion like an engineer

On testosterone measurement

Huel is fine to drink, despite the high lead allegations. Here a trustworthy Huel enjoyer shows his blood tests.

Towards Consciousness Engineering

You can survive on one kidney if you donate the other, at the cost of worse health maybe. Scott here points out that there could be genetic confounders involved in that. I personally wouldn't take the risk.

The Mechanical Turk. I already knew some vague details of the story, this video adds a few more I didn't (It played against Franklin and Napoleon!)

A cheap approach to fight bioweapons

Viruses are worse than you thought

A review of 'If anyone builds it, everyone dies'

When will quantum computing work?

LLMs are coming for CAD

More on the benefits of vertical integration at Boom Supersonic

On "involution" in China's industries

The wild world of parasitic AI

A bearish take on humanoid robots from Rodney Brooks (who keeps a public record of his predictions!. Here's another post of his with a critique of Sutton's Bitter Lesson.

On the use of animal testing for drug development

Latest AI models have some awareness that they're being evaluated. I could see this happening because of training set pollution, and still not counting as situational awareness in the sense I talked about here.

Depreciation (re AI datacenter spend)

Why AI is not a bubble

Germline gene editing, Max Berry