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Solving Gambling Problem #14 Fast

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Fermi Calculation Examples

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Predicting Google Closures (2013)

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Learning 10000 Pictures (1973) [pdf]

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Gwern.net Website Traffic

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Lizardman Constant in Surveys

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It Looks Like You’re Trying to Take over the World

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Efficiently irrational: deciphering the riddle of human choice [pdf]

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Design of This Website

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Resorting Media Ratings: statistical pairwise ranking and sorting of items

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It Looks Like You’re Trying to Take over the World

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Mathematics on a Distant Planet – Richard Hamming (1998)[pdf]

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Theory of the Nudnik: The Future of Consumer Activism [pdf]

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Wei Dai / Satoshi Nakamoto Emails (2009)

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The ‘sort –key’ Trick (2021)

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Modafinil, Prescription Nootropic Stimulant

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Life Paths of Mathematically Precocious People Four Decades Later

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Results of a 5-Year N-of-1 GHRH Gene Therapy Experiment [pdf]

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IQ decline and Piaget: Does the rot start at the top? [pdf]

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Ten Lessons from Three Generations Shaped Google’s TPUv4i [pdf]

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There’s plenty of room at the Top [pdf]

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Isochoric Freezing and Its Emerging Applications in Food Preservation [pdf]

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Rare Greek Variables

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Situated Software

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Urban Area Cost-of-Living as Big Tech Moats and Employee Golden Handcuffs (2018)

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Genetics and Eugenics in Frank Herbert's Dune

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The Melancholy of Subculture Society

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On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages (2019)

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GPT-3 – Prompts as Programming

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Startup Ideas – Gwern.net

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CO₂ Coin: Decentralized Carbon Capture Blockchains (2021)

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LSD microdosing: Self-experiment with sub-psychedelic doses of LSD; no benefit

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The Mathematical Theory of Lion Hunting

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The Narrowing Circle

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The Scaling Hypothesis

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Anki Tips: What I Learned Making 10k Flashcards

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The Ups and Downs of the Hope Function in a Fruitless Search (2012)

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What every programmer should know about memory [pdf]

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Parasocial Relationships Online

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Who Buys Fonts?

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Do scholars follow Betteridge's Law? Questions in journal article titles (2016) [pdf]

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Never Pay for Online Dating

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The Escalation of Commitment to a Course of Action (1981) [pdf]

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Why Anime?

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Littlewood's Law and the Global Media

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Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement

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