Month: June 2025
Meet Jim O’Neill, the longevity enthusiast who is now RFK Jr.’s right-hand man
“The healthiest societies in 2030 will most likely be on the sea,” O’Neill told an audience at a Seasteading Institute conference in 2009. In ...
Thousands in Norway told they had won life-changing sums in lottery error | Norway
Thousands of Norwegians were mistakenly told they had won life-changing sums in the country’s Eurojackpot draw after an error by the state-owned gambling operator, ...
That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In hindsight I’ll say: I always thought ...
life lessons from poker — LessWrong
crossposted from my blog There are two ways we miscalibrate risk. We risk too much on things that are low conviction We risk too ...
Why AI will eat McKinsey’s lunch — but not today
Navin Chaddha, managing director of the 55-year-old Silicon Valley venture firm Mayfield, is betting big on AI’s ability to transform people-heavy industries like consulting, ...
GenEscape: Hierarchical Multi-Agent Generation of Escape Room Puzzles
arXiv:2506.21839v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We challenge text-to-image models with generating escape room puzzle images that are visually appealing, logically solid, and intellectually stimulating. ...
Detecting and Restoring Confidence in the Presence of Adversarial Patch Attacks
[Submitted on 4 Mar 2024 (v1), last revised 27 Jun 2025 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled Enhancing Object Detection ...
Analyzing and Fine-Tuning Whisper Models for Multilingual Pilot Speech Transcription in the Cockpit
arXiv:2506.21990v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The developments in transformer encoder-decoder architectures have led to significant breakthroughs in machine translation, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and ...
Less Greedy Equivalence Search
arXiv:2506.22331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Greedy Equivalence Search (GES) is a classic score-based algorithm for causal discovery from observational data. In the sample limit, ...
