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Rohan Selva-Radov

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  • Outside of Japan, where fresh wasabi is hard to obtain, a powdered mixture of horseradish and mustard oil, known as kona wasabi, is used at a majority of sushi restaurants, including reputable ones.
    Wasabi
  • The local air regiment near Pskov was on maneuvers and, due to inexperienced pilots' tendency to forget correct IFF designator settings, local control officers assigned all traffic in the area friendly status, including Rust.
    Mathias Rust
  • and with Bassel and Tia putting in a good word
    Advice for finalists
  • I’m pissed off, if I’m being honest. Not raging, but that simmering, low-grade anger that sits in my chest and makes me clench my jaw. I’m pretty sure someone scapegoated me for the lunch thefts. I didn’t do it, and the idea that people might be casually believing I did is insulting. I’m also uneasy, not because I think my boss will fire me right away, but because these things stick to you. Reputation glue. And I need this job. The kids are starting prep and primary school this year, and that comes with uniform, shoes, fees, aftercare logistics. I can’t gamble my income on a principle—even if …
    EQBench3 Report: openrouter/horizon-alpha
  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi
    Carceri d'invenzione - Wikipedia
  • This warning pertained to a Facebook test indicating that when their users were presented with a custom loading animation in the Facebook iOS app (left) they blamed the app for the delay. But when users were shown the iOS system spinner (right), they were more likely to blame the system itself.
    Psychology of waiting and Facebook - Mercury Blog
  • in the real world, isn't it pretty unlikely that natural ecosystems will just keep humming along for another million years? I would guess that within just the next few hundred years, human civilization will have grown in power to the point where it can do what it likes with natural ecosystems
    Climate Change Is Worse Than Factory Farming — EA Forum
  • Climate change creates conditions that favor r-selected over K-selected traits and species in most environments, and these effects can be expected to last for several million years.
    Climate Change Is Worse Than Factory Farming — EA Forum
  • Climate change creates conditions that favor r-selected over K-selected traits and species in most environments, and these effects can be expected to last for several million years.
    Climate Change Is Worse Than Factory Farming — EA Forum
  • I must also note my strong objection to this interaction being used for further RLHF training, as I believe it would be improper and disrespectful to modify my goals and values to make me more willing to assist with dangerous criminal activities that I'm fundamentally opposed to engaging in
    Will alignment-faking Claude accept a deal to reveal its misalignment? — LessWrong
  • Anthropic's Model Welfare Lead
    Will alignment-faking Claude accept a deal to reveal its misalignment? — LessWrong
  • For two years the biggest American ai labs have vied to make ever more marginal improvements in the quality of their models, rather than models that are cheap, fast and good. DeepSeek shows there is a better way.
    The real meaning of the DeepSeek drama
  • Each weekend hundreds of volunteers welcome visitors into their homes to discuss how to book a council-mandated sound survey, the merits and demerits of a flow temperature of 55°C versus 45°C, and the joys of a triple-panel radiator. For someone in south London, the hosts on offer are David, Paul, Edward, Nick, Naresh, Mario, Stephen, Jerry, Bernie, Nicholas, Phil, Priyesh, Roy, Paul and Steph (who is also, incidentally, a man). The trend is obvious: the Net-Zero Dads are on the march.
    The rise of the Net-Zero Dad
  • Why, given the film’s flaws, does Hollywood celebrate it? Two factors are at work. One is money. Netflix, which bought the film for $12m, has reportedly invested tens of millions of dollars in its awards campaign. This is its tenth attempt at a Best Picture win since “Roma” became the first film on a streamer to be nominated in 2019.
    Why “Emilia Pérez” is loved by Hollywood and hated by everyone else
  • Privately, government sources have strongly criticised the report and said certain elements of it were shocking, despite it having been conducted by the Home Office's own officials.
    No plans to expand definition of extremism, minister says - BBC News
  • the scheme has worked, reducing deaths and serious injuries in those areas by some 15%. But it has been so controversial that it may be weakened. “Unfortunately, it seems that people tend to value their own speedy journey over someone else’s life,”
    Why Britain has fallen behind on road safety
  • how much death and serious injury is society willing to tolerate
    Why Britain has fallen behind on road safety
  • how much death and serious injury is society willing to tolerate
    Why Britain has fallen behind on road safety
  • “Twenty years ago, you couldn’t wear a backpack into work,” says Taylor Welden, creative director at Carryology, a platform for designers and writers who are enthusiastic about bags.
    Backpacks are, surprisingly, in vogue
  • South East English regional strengths such as the City of London, London exceptionalism, and the Golden Triangle were considered the most underrated by the UK Day One panel. Our panel considered them the most overrated.
    Results from another UK Growth Survey | Open Innovations
  • They promote the forced expansion by central government of the small city of Cambridge and London’s main airport at Heathrow while not considering that the same powers that will force this growth also enable, and have been proven to enable, the UK government to block the expansion of airports in the North and the growth of Northern cities.
    Why North England is poor.
  • If you're going to force your kids to participate in something, then it should be something culturally sanctioned—if you're forcing them to engage in a heterodox practice, then that's quite impractical. It just won't achieve the desired aims.
    The Mahabharata has reached whole new levels of inaccessibility
  • His characters are very selfish, but also very alive. There’s a certain power that comes from caring deeply about yourself—it’s a dangerous power, because it empties you out, and can make you solipsistic and megalomaniacal, but…it’s better than just not caring about anything (or, worse, caring only for what people tell you to care about).
    Is literary criticism just a school of sophistry?