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Will Jesus Christ return in an election year? In the three days since the market opened, traders have wagered over $100,000 on this question. Right now, if you wanted to, you could place a bet that Jesus Christ will not return this year, and earn over $13,000 if you’re right. The easy mystery is: if people are willing to bet $13,000 on “Yes”, why isn’t anyone taking them up? The answer is that, if you wanted to do that, you’d have to put down over $1 million of your own money, locking it up inside Polymarket through the end of the year. […] But the real mystery is: why is anyone participating in the market on the “Yes” side?
Toxic Origins, Toxic Decisions: Biases in CEO Selection
Almost 40% of world’s glaciers already doomed due to climate crisis – study
Penguin guano is an important source of climate-relevant aerosol particles in Antarctica
Melbourne Zoo’s tiger sent to dentist
Intermediate token generation (ITG)—where a model generates output before reaching a final solution—has been proposed as a way to improve language model performance on reasoning tasks. These intermediate outputs are often referred to as “reasoning traces” or “thoughts,” implicitly anthropomorphizing the model by suggesting they mirror human problem-solving steps. In this paper, we argue that such anthropomorphization is not a harmless metaphor; it misrepresents the nature of these models, hinders effective use, and promotes questionable research practices. [PDF]
Novels that are bestsellers upon publication are not necessarily popular decades later. Timeless books—popular well after publication—are a rare occurrence, standing the test of time and distinguishing themselves from the millions of books published each year. What makes a novel timeless?
