Enhancements Include: Reduced memory usage Faster FFTs due to support for Intel’s new fused multiply add instruction Minor optimizations may give a small performance boost for AVX CPUs Improved benchmarking on multi-core machines
Is it possible to ground ethics in terms of itself without falling into circular reasoning or infinite regress? Scott Aaronson explains how MIT graduate student Tyler Singer-Clark is taking the first steps towards researching…
Effective Altruist Opportunity: Spin For Good is running a $1000 money added online blackjack tournament this week that’s 100% for charity. I’m currently one of the leaders but I’d definitely welcome some friendly competition….
I’ve traded stocks and options for years now. I’ve used E-Trade, TD Ameritrade, Scottrade, ShareBuilder, and Fidelity. But I can’t really recommend working with these companies anymore. Actively trading stocks and options has been…
Created with Compare Ninja Almost everyone should use Ally as their primary bank. Their 100% ATM fee reimbursements and 0.87% savings rates will both earn you extra cash on the margin and no other…
UM has been reduced to (1) desperately trying to take credit for how great one of their engineering students is (since he got a Thiel Fellowship), while (2) simultaneously trying to avoid admitting that…
If you could design the ideal way to lose weight, it would probably look a lot like pumping fat and calories directly out of your body. And for some of us, nature has made…
Researchers find evidence that insider trading occurs in roughly 25% of mergers and acquisitions. That seems really low. Insider trading is one of the only profitable activities you can engage in as an investor….
Researchers have discovered and tested a new technique to engender a heritable shutdown of male mosquitoes ability to sire female offspring. This could be a much more efficient and rapid way to engineer the…
Want to track your goals? And make sure you don’t fail at the “forget to track your goals” stage? If so, check out my new guest post over at CFAR’s blog. It will teach…
Excellent roundup of ways to increase your happiness. Written by a friend of mine in San Francisco. Some of the top ones are probably things you’ve heard of: Exercise Keep a Gratitude Journal Spend…
Africa has had surprisingly good economic growth, improved health, and improved governance in the 21st century. It’s a bit under-reported though so I mention this in case you also didn’t know that most things…
My friend Julia is concerned with animal welfare. She seems to have been the first in the world to come up with this obvious-in-hindsight metric for evaluating animal calorie sources: how many food calories…
tl;dr: You probably need to practice rationality ahead of time in order to have it in the kinds of situations where you need it the most.
Google is set to support full native PGP encryption of emails so they can make it through all internet hubs without being snooped through. They’re in the final stages of paying bounties to hackers…
This tutorial is meant for beginners who just want to get a stake in the future of cryptocurrency. 1. Get a bitcoin wallet There are many choices out there, but I still like Coinbase for…
You might be interested in taking this effective altruism survey. There’s an effort to circulate as widely as possible, with the creator giving $250 of his own money to one participant. The results should…
