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Sarah Constantin
Personal blog · sarahconstantin.substack.comsciencephilosophy
Sarah Constantin writes Rough Diamonds, a personal blog at sarahconstantin.substack.com about science and philosophy. Since 2022, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “The Great Data Integration Schlep”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Great Data Integration Schlep5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-09-13
- Why infinite coin flipping is bad2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-22
- Why I Am Not An AI Doomer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-13
- What does the cerebellum do?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-30
- GPT AI Scaling: How much bigger (and better) can LLMs get in the 2020's?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-12
What Hacker News says?
This was an article that really helped me understand it https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/the-great-data-integr...
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on “Palantir is extending its reach even further into government”Submitted What does the cerebellum do? as a story · 434 points
HN discussionHere are some in-depth blog posts from ex-employees: https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/the-great-data-integr... https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/reflections-on-palantir
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on “Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal”Submitted Old Spleens Suck (2021) as a story · 197 points
HN discussionThere were two things going on: A) Betting more aggressively than the Kelly Criterion, which indicates a bad understanding of how to reason about risk and EV[1], and, separately B) taking unnecessary, negative EV risks that have no justification beyond laziness. B) include things like "having such sloppy accounting that you simply forget about major accounts[2] and are unintelligible to potential buyers" and "storin…
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on “Caroline Ellison sentenced to 2 years in prison”Submitted The Enchippening as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSarah Constantin has been writing a series of posts about such technology (these aren't the only people trying it) over on her blog: * https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/ultrasound-neuromodul... * https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/how-ultrasound-neurom... * https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/transcranial-ultrasou... * https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/why-should-neuroenhan... * https://sarahconstan…
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on “New Neurotech Eschews Electricity for Ultrasound”Submitted SS27 Color Stats as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Companies Are Not (Necessarily) Liable for Unintended AI Cyberattacks as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Does the Cerebellum Do Anyway? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Really Happens When a Neuron Fires? (Part 1) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Human Intelligence Simple? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI "Deep Research" Tools Reviewed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great Data Integration Schlep as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great Data Integration Schlep as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fun with CellxGene as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM Applications I Want to See as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multiplex Gene Editing: Where Are We Now? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Noninvasive Brain Activity Imaging as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goals (and Not Having Them) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 600+ Early-Stage Projects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unblocking Abundance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grid Scale Energy Storage Deployment by Technology Type as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Dither as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted FW25 Color Stats as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's Behind the SynBio Bust? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dream Machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great Data Integration Schlep as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Differential expression for fun, profit, and understanding aging as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why infinite coin flipping is bad as a story · 1 points
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