Note: This post was crossposted from the Coefficient Giving Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes. On factory farming 1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last long. This low salience is self-reinforcing: even people who care deeply about

I was cooking the other day when I thought about a lieutenant I haven’t seen in years. I don’t know why. That happens to me sometimes. A memory will just show up. Nothing in particular brings it to mind. I’ll be driving, or walking, or standing in the kitchen cutting onions, and suddenly I’m back in some room I haven’t thought about in years.This one has come back to me a couple of times recently.It was sometime around 2018 or 2019. I was a squadron commander in the Air Force, and one of my flight

To celebrate Bishop David Konderla’s 10th anniversary as Bishop of the Diocese of Tulsa, we revisit a special episode of "Tulsa Time" from the podcast archives.In this Episode:Discerning The Desire For MarriageWatch Tulsa Time on YouTubeStream, Download, and Listen on Your Favorite PlatformFollow @dioceseoftulsa The Eastern Oklahoma Catholic Podcast is brought to you by The Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma.

Webpage: praxis-research.org/grafting | Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00767 Work done during Peter and Dani's MATS Fellowship (10.0) under the mentorship of Shi, with Jinghua Ou as Research Manager. TLDR; We share a simple modification to synthetic document fine-tuning (SDF) that works surprisingly well: do fine-tuning on a pre-training checkpoint and add the resulting weight difference onto the post-trained version that you want to deploy. We call this grafting. We empirically validate

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The caller was five or six when they started lying awake at night, scared of death. What frightened them was the idea of not existing at all. That wasn't something a kid could bring up to adults, so they mostly thought about it alone. Around the same time, their mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was the 1980s, and nobody explained much to the kids. When the cancer came back years later, the caller figured she'd get better, because she had before. A few days before their 14th birthday, ...