The write up of how Windows 11 24H2 broke GTA San Andreas was excellent.

https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/04/23/gta-san-andreas...

JSTOR settled with Swartz and did not pursue a civil lawsuit.

Current definition:

"Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, theories, and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself."

In order to understand mathematics you must first understand mathematics.

Only mathematics can define objects in a non recursive way. Human language can’t (Münchhausen Trilemma)

Not recommended for people prone to seizures

I've been trying to compose music with Strudel after some years attempting to play the guitar and the piano.

This resource is very helpful

But it IS intentional, more sycophantry usually means more engagement.

Sort of. I'm not sure the consequences of training LLM's based on users' upvoted responses were entirely understood? And at least one release got rolled back.

I think the only thing that's unclear, and what LLM companies want to fine-tune, is how much sycophancy they want. Too much, like the article mentions, and it becomes grotesque and breaks suspension of disbelief. So they want to get it just right, friendly and supportive but not so grotesque people realize it cannot be true.

Fox News was created because they didn't want another Watergate-level scandal be able to make R presidents lose popularity. It's surprising how effective it is.

I am really really skeptical of the first bullet point.

Yeah I think the context matters a lot there. I’m assuming it means “on a state by state basis”, which is true. But within my state, at least, family income, outside spending, and property tax revenues correlate very strongly with outcomes.

I've seen that too, but to my understanding it is less about the money and more about the parent participation. Wealthy school districts don't have any problem with finding volunteers for all sorts of activities, because one of the parents is frequently a stay-at-home parent.

This is true, but it’s also true that the money buys all of those extra activities and services. At my kids’ school, the garden program, music program, arts program, and teachers aides are all funded by the PTA. The field trips are funded by the students families so must be calibrated to their budgets. There are also volunteers associated with all of those programs, but they wouldn’t exist without the money.

A few (much wealthier) towns over, the district wide PTA raises millions of dollars yearly to support additional programs and facilities, and the district can offer higher salaries because of the larger tax base. Again, lots of parent involvement, but there’s also more to be involved in.

We didn't have the processing power for this before!

AI made some PhD productive enough for this to finally be possible.

If you sum both, it's 17.204%, which would place it at the top.