Archive: 2025-01

Opinion | Democrats Are Losing the War for Attention. Badly. - The New York Times — “the technological infrastructure of podcasts matters tremendously. That line — I forget who wrote it — being able to say, “‘Wherever you get your podcasts’ is a radical statement.” The fact that podcasts have built audiences largely outside of algorithmic feeds, have built them through an open protocol called R.S.S. That technical backbone actually matters for precisely what you’re talking about.” — hard to predict what you work will matter. Never would have predicted back in rooms with a couple of other weirdos that RSS and OAuth would be the most impactful things I worked on. (2025-01-24 · chris.hayes, ezra.klein, history, mlp, oauth, rss, standards )

Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 – Rodney Brooks — Rodney Brooks scoring his 2017 predictions on AI is both the best thing you can read about AI, and a searing critique of how SV’s model undermines real progress so that a few may profit by monopolizing what progress does occur. (2025-01-20 · ai, llm, mlp, policy, rodney.brooks, silicon.valley )

NYC Congestion Pricing: How Traffic Patterns Changed Week 1 — Traffic down 8% in one week. (2025-01-17 · congestion, mlp, nyc, politics, urbanism )

Stanford Researchers Produce Ammonia Fuel From Thin Air - IEEE Spectrum — Ammonia (nh3) is a critical fertilizer, carbon free fuel candidate, and excellent hydrogen carrier (2025-01-17 · climate, climate-hope, mlp, nh3 )

Mauna Loa carbon dioxide forecast for 2025 - Met Office — Atmospheric CO2 rise now exceeding IPCC 1.5°C scenarios (2025-01-17 · climate, co2, mlp )

Timescape cosmology: There might not be a mysterious 'dark' force accelerating the expansion of the Universe after all. — Instead of dark matter and energy, gravity’s variable impact on time is potentially a better explanation for the observed data. (2025-01-03 · astronomy, cosmology, darkmatter, mlp, physics, science, space, timescape )

Largest known prime number - Wikipedia — New prime dropped in 2024 (2025-01-01 · math, mlp, prime )

The 7 Coolest Mathematical Discoveries of 2024 — New “soft cells”, the first prime number in 6 years and a new approach to calculating pi (2025-01-01 · 2024, math, mathematics, mlp )