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The notion of complexity is filled with nuance and richness. Data from "Complexity: 5 Questions" (2008) by Carlos Gershenson #complexity

Why is no-one in tech talking about how bad Trump's war on universities, R&D funding, and international students will be for the country's long term future

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The historical outcomes of anti-science, anti-university politics are not great

This graphic of Trump’s cuts to NASA’s research fleet is insane. Why do this? Who wants this? Who was complaining we were exploring space too much? The only principle seems to be “if it can’t go directly into Trump or Musk’s own pockets, dump it in the trash.”

I don't often beat up on the NYTimes, because I think the alternatives are mostly worse, but every once in a while they are so egregious my jaw literally drops. Left: NYTimes. Right: The Telegraph (a paper so right-wing it's often called "the Torygraph")

Very good piece, worth reading. We deported this guy back to China and he immediately went to Mao and built their missile and space programs. nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opi…

Had this exact experience seeing Yo La Tengo in 2008. Felt like my friends and I were the only people there under 30 and I felt like I'd time-warped back to 1996. Now it's my turn.

Were there people who had been working on ARPANET since the '70s who, when the web came along, went "nah, seems like a bubble, I'll sit this one out"? What are they up to now?

The second quotation (a real quotation in "Abundance") is so funny compared to the Abundance Discourse.

LLMs haven’t taught us anything about the Chinese room other than the fact that is in fact possible to build the Chinese room

CRISPR-enabled genetic logic circuits for biosensing sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I worry that one day we'll be saying this about transformers.

Harvard researcher Dr Sarah Fortune was only two years away from creating a vaccine that could have saved the 1.25 million people killed each year by tuberculosis. But last month, she received a letter telling her that the $60 million grant funding her research was being halted

there are so many cool things to spend gpu hours on other than just training LLMs

Punch Drunk Love (2002)