Not Elon Musk

@LevAkabas (3) what's the drug testing history for horse racing.

Kentucky Derby times haven't gotten any faster since the 1960s... Why? Two theories: (1) Selective breeding has reached its limit due to reduction of genetic variation (2) People care about breaking records. Horses don't 🏇

@samdcohn People will stop laughing when he's brought in as a hidden player gadget option.

UDFA quarterback Diego Pavia is here in Owings Mills for Ravens rookie minicamp:

@LoganDobson So if I'm following. AI is made of cows?

Imagine you run a 24 hour hamburger joint. You do pretty well. You sell 1000 burgers a week for $10 each, netting $5 on each. But almost all your money is made during “peak” hours when demand is highest — lunch, dinner. You net $5000 a week. Then a big change. A 24 hour factory opens across the street. The workers at the factory don’t have a set lunch hour, so they just run out for burgers whenever they feel hungry, roughly evenly distributed throughout the day and night. Burger demand surges — a little bit during those peak hours, but also at all hours of the night, mid-afternoon, early morning, all times you previously weren’t selling many burgers and your staff was mostly sitting around. With the surge in demand, you’re now selling 2000 burgers a week. You cut the price to $8 per burger (to encourage more factory customers), so you now net $6000 per week. Demand went way up, but you cut prices and are making more revenue and profit. At this point you might think I’ve told you a story about hamburgers. I’ve actually told you a story about data centers and electricity prices.

@farhip MFW "Lee but ignore Gettyburg"

Lee lost the war. Grant won it, first in the west, and then by crushing Lee on his home turf. Trump is buying the “Lost Cause” image of Lee, which sought to portray him as blameless and noble. In fact, Lee supported slavery and killed countless Americans in defense of it.

@michael_nielsen @RyanPGreenblatt Unclear what we're counting though. Ex there are infinitely many possible hammers, but once you have the idea of varying ex size and material most of the conceptual space is covered.

@RyanPGreenblatt This seems almost certainly wrong. The vast majority of technologies will never be developed, by ten billion civilizations over ten billion years. I of course cannot prove this (though basic counting arguments suggest it)

Dwarkesh's point here is really striking: if two alien civilizations tech trees are different enough (which seems plausible - consider the likely differences in basic biology), then that creates very large opportunities for gains from trade. (Of course, trade itself requires certain preconditions to be met - hostile enough interactions may preclude the possibility)

@JamesSurowiecki The DOJ is doing a version of this bit.

Nonsense. The DOJ does not get to unilaterally decide what it means when someone uses the expression "86." It can claim (erroneously) that it always means "to murder," and then prove that claim in court. But it has no constitutional authority to define an expression's meaning.

@JonahDispatch Is it illegal to say root(74770609)

Wait, they’re actually prosecuting Comey for that (dumb) tweet? Like really? That’s just so unbelievably lame.

@dannycantalk What does the predictor do if I decide via some sufficiently randomized process? (Im a one boxer though)

We're done rehashing the button question. Time to rehash Newcomb's Paradox. Are you a one-boxer or a two-boxer?

@kofinas Definitely a protocol change due to Trump's level of disability. He cant run (understandable given age) and fell over in the video.

The vice president was rushed off stage more than 10 seconds before anyone even grabbed Trump by the lapels. That cannot be protocol.

@EdLatimore Massive dude that can bench 405, and knee issue that tolerates deadlift way better then squat would be my 1st guess.

Trying to imagine how a person gets this distribution of strength.

@dogfoodforgirls Player gets double "destroy target creature" trigger, opponent has undying creature. Watched a whole pod agree that this lets him kill the creature then kill it again when it comes back from undying. It's not even worth trying to explain it, no one aware the stack exists.

you try to explain how priority works to a pod of casual commander players and u can genuinely feel three people trying to kill you with their mind

@wolftivy A car horn can be blown for any real number amount of seconds as part of speech, and thus language is uncountably infinite. Though I guess this depends on whether actual time is continuous or discrete.

"language is uncountably infinite" I don't know what nonsense you're trying to prove or where you learned your math or computer science, but language is obviously and trivially countable.

@Brady_H Grip strength is probably contributing some to things like reduced fall risk, even if the main causal chain here is health-->grip I'm fond of the example. "NBA players have much larger feet then average men, but an NBA scout probably spends nearly 0 time measuring feet".

Grip strength being a "proxy for overall muscle quality..." is precisely the reason you *don't* need to train grip strength.

@NateSilver538 You have to understand that Ken Martin is easily scared by new ideas.

Does it also require them to drive a horse-and-buggy to work wtf

@JosiahHawthorne "Chinese guy who formally invited everyone to celebrate Chinese new year" moment.

Counterpoint: I also choose [to name the crater after] this guy's dead wife.

@sentdefender Weak presidents like Washington only won their war one time, but Trump has won the same war a bigly number of times

U.S. President Donald J. Trump tells Fox News that the Iran War is over.

@benwfreeman1 @atrupar Went to kalshi, your first listed politics market was "straight of hormuz back to normal" So your post is the lie.

@atrupar To be clear, you can’t “bet on war” on Kalshi. We don’t have any war, death, or assassination markets. This is misinformation.

Ossoff: "The president apparently promised pardons for the entire WH staff, which I guess is the kind of thing you do when you run the WH like a casino. Now, maybe the West Wing is too busy placing Kashi and Polymarket bets on the war to care, but American are getting hurt ... in Donald Trump’s America, the rich get tax cuts, the well-connected get stock tips, and everybody else makes sacrifices."

@sentdefender Jimmy can't close.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said that “We leave here with a very simple proposal. A method of understanding that is our final and best offer.” It now appears that the talks have concluded after failing to merit any form of U.S.-Iranian convergence on positions.

@prettycritical The tldr answer is that maintenance volumes are generally much lower then maximum progress volumes, so in lots of ways you can coast once you plateau especially if young. So it gets very goal dependent, especially if you're super locked in and still plateued.

on reddit, a woman asked what would happen to her body/muscles if she just kept doing the same weight forever. no one would answer her! clearly they hadn’t really ever pondered it, but instead of saying “idk” they were just like “you need to be doing progressive overload, dummy”

@delucinator 1 2 1 5 10 2 1 2 2+1+10+2+2=17

so whats the answer to this, is it that the flashlight is not needed or that in times of need we simply tell the analyst to off himself