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This photo from the upper stage water landing of the latest SpaceX test flight looks absolutely incredible.
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Next Starship test flight in ~9min! This time without attempted booster catch. https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1925929228232474849
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Fun video with a practical example of iOS app reverse engineering. I spent a week once a few years ago reverse engineering the private API signing logic of an app I was using that didn't (still doesn't) have a public API. Have been using their private API ever since! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW3jL2gI9IE
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Many things to legitimately criticize Donald Trump for, but the Harris campaign tweeting out a video of him marveling at the SpaceX rocket booster catch - one of the most impressive feats of engineering in recent history - as if that somehow deserved ridicule is sad. https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1848878029193560424
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Latest Elon video game video accidentally includes the audio recording of a SpaceX starship flight 5 review call (the one where they caught the booster) he was on while playing. Super interesting to get a glimpse of the SpaceX internal operations! https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1849914261482652113
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Polymarket Trump odds do seem a bit high. I just bought additional $1000 worth of Kamala shares at 35.4%. Seems +EV. Although of course chances are the market indeed knows better than me.
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Come watch @shilpa and me battle for the Dominion crown in a bit over an hour!
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Gm Starbase! Today is going to be my first ever time watching a rocket launch in-person - looks like I picked a good one! https://x.com/spacex/status/1845424870655398102
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The timing on this is ridiculous - my first ever larger size polymarket bet, and that just so happens to be seconds before someone comes in with almost $1M to shift that market 4% in the other direction, in an (unsuccessful) attempt to win a secondary market… https://x.com/jon_charb/status/1832112496968171679
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absurd - Microsoft makes it impossible to disable the "Email a code" login option. Someone keeps trying to guess this (6 digit) code for my account. At this rate they have a ~1% brute force chance per year...
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The ability for countries to make credible commitments to investors across changes in government is good, actually. https://x.com/slatestarcodex/status/1831405516326891549
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If you are a rationalist and not willing to "question" democracy, you are not a rationalist. https://x.com/samoburja/status/1830481350488637805
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Goodbye SF, I’ll be back!
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TIL about the term "neuro-symbolic AI". Always good to have a term to put to an interesting concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-symbolic_AI
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Always a bit alien to me to see so many laptops in a lecture setting. During my 4 undergrad years (maths, then econ) I didn't even own a laptop. Only bought one (a used MacBook) when switching over to CS for my master's, and even then mainly for homework after class. https://x.com/vikhyatk/status/1828653905968079225
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