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@MotoGP Date?

No time to lose, COTA is almost here 🤩 Keep this handy so you won't miss a moment 👀 #USGP 🇺🇸

@dieworkwear We do!

i dont know. do people feel better off for knowing me?

@MyretZaki The excuses for not restricting the movement of the Moretti's don't add up. Of course there is a risk of flight and collusion. I would not be surprised if they flee to Dubai

Crans Montana : la procureure générale Béatrice Pilloud envoie des signaux de laxisme, de complaisance et parfois d'amateurisme. Elle n’instruit pas elle-même le dossier du siècle, mais s'occupe uniquement de la communication. Elle a d'abord confié le dossier à une jeune procureure qui n'a jamais instruit d'enquête, puis à 4, dont on ignore les noms. Les prévenus (au passé de proxénétisme) sont laissés en liberté et apparemment protégés par la police, la perquisition de la commune est escamotée, les victimes sont privées d’assister aux auditions. Les appels au déssaisissement de la procureure se manifestent, au profit de la désignation, hors du canton, de compétences neutres et fiables 👇blick.ch/fr/fr/suisse/r…

@MyretZaki Thank you for asking the right questions. There are so many legitimate fears about the handling of this whole affair that we really need good journalists right now!

Drame de Crans Montana: La fortune opaque et le passé de proxénète de Jacques Moretti, le propriétaire du bar accusé d'homicide par négligence, alimentent de lourds soupçons. Arrivé de France, il débarque à Crans-Montana en 2015 et achète pour 3 millions de francs de propriétés, sans prendre aucun crédit. Le paiement de grosses sommes en cash est un indice habituel de blanchiment d'argent👇 blick.ch/fr/fr/suisse/r…

For the last decade, it has been hard to stray off the beaten path of accepted wisdom that scaling training parameters drives innovation. However, the relationship between training compute + performance is uncertain + rapidly changing.

@ValerioCapraro Fascinating! Can't wait to read the paper...

Major preprint just out! We compare how humans and LLMs form judgments across seven epistemological stages. We highlight seven fault lines, points at which humans and LLMs fundamentally diverge: The Grounding fault: Humans anchor judgment in perceptual, embodied, and social experience, whereas LLMs begin from text alone, reconstructing meaning indirectly from symbols. The Parsing fault: Humans parse situations through integrated perceptual and conceptual processes; LLMs perform mechanical tokenization that yields a structurally convenient but semantically thin representation. The Experience fault: Humans rely on episodic memory, intuitive physics and psychology, and learned concepts; LLMs rely solely on statistical associations encoded in embeddings. The Motivation fault: Human judgment is guided by emotions, goals, values, and evolutionarily shaped motivations; LLMs have no intrinsic preferences, aims, or affective significance. The Causality fault: Humans reason using causal models, counterfactuals, and principled evaluation; LLMs integrate textual context without constructing causal explanations, depending instead on surface correlations. The Metacognitive fault: Humans monitor uncertainty, detect errors, and can suspend judgment; LLMs lack metacognition and must always produce an output, making hallucinations structurally unavoidable. The Value fault: Human judgments reflect identity, morality, and real-world stakes; LLM "judgments" are probabilistic next-token predictions without intrinsic valuation or accountability. Despite these fault lines, humans systematically over-believe LLM outputs, because fluent and confident language produce a credibility bias. We argue that this creates a structural condition, Epistemia: linguistic plausibility substitutes for epistemic evaluation, producing the feeling of knowing without actually knowing. To address Epistemia, we propose three complementary strategies: epistemic evaluation, epistemic governance, and epistemic literacy. Full paper in the first reply. Joint with @Walter4C & @matjazperc

@dieworkwear Logical

don't know why it's surprising to hear that a massive amount of paperwork will ensue if you get rid of the de minimis exemption, resulting in chaos, confusion, and some packages being destroyed

🧵 1/8 The Illusion of Thinking: Are reasoning models like o1/o3, DeepSeek-R1, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet really "thinking"? 🤔 Or are they just throwing more compute towards pattern matching? The new Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) show promising gains on math and coding benchmarks, but we found their fundamental limitations are more severe than expected. In our latest work, we compared each “thinking” LRM with its “non-thinking” LLM twin. Unlike most prior works that only measure the final performance, we analyzed their actual reasoning traces—looking inside their long "thoughts". Our analysis reveals several interesting results ⬇️ 📄 machinelearning.apple.com/research/illus… Work led by @ParshinShojaee and @i_mirzadeh, and with @KeivanAlizadeh2, @mchorton1991, Samy Bengio.

@dieworkwear Just look at the Reuters piece about the LVMH factory in Texas...

talked to someone at one of the top italian tailoring firms. they plan on moving manufacturing to the US. said that generations of italian tailoring skill and culture can probably be transported to boise, idaho. expect flawless transition by monday.

@cohelongo @humanrightsCH @operationlibero @duycks By way of contrast: reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

@humanrightsCH @operationlibero For more, here’s a great thread from @duycks:

A while back I blogged about the initial political responses to the @KlimaSeniorin judgment within Switzerland, noting that we needed to wait for a definitive position from the Federal Executive, which we'd get in August. Well, today was the day: they issued a position. (1/x)

@cohelongo @KlimaSeniorin Thanx for the summary!

@dieworkwear Did you see this? Would love to hear your thoughts...youtube.com/watch?v=qgodhQ…

vintage Ralph Lauren you can find on eBay and the inspo — Polo Country work jacket ($110 on eBay right now) — Polo Sportsman buck cap (~$150) — Polo RL horse print jacket (recently went for $185 on Grailed) — Polo Bear 50th anniversary sweater ($250)

@dieworkwear Yes, and please comment on the wearing of white tennis shoes with business suits. I am shocked the see the spokesperson of the Swiss government regularly on TV wearing a suit and tennis shoes.

would people like more threads on things like jeans and t-shirts? sometimes i don't know if talking about things like raw denim is too basic. but then i see comments like this and wonder, "do people think jeans are all the same?"

@dieworkwear Maybe his sleeves will trickle down to his wrists in due course?

if the free market is so good how did we end up with this?

like during the pandemic where contracts are cancelled and workers unpaid. We know that #heat is a #humanrights risk, and we need a due diligence lens to avoid deadly safety and health consequences, and then a train smash when #globalvaluechains get disrupted. @EquiDiligence

Buyers will have to conduct due diligence to assess these risks to life and prepare for the inevitable value chain disruptions. They must work with suppliers to adjust production schedules and delivery dates, otherwise there is a real risk of a force majeure situation... 4/

Are we headed for another force majeure crisis? I've been talking to colleagues in S. Asia about the #heat, often >50°c, and what construction sites, farms and factories are doing. 1/

Here's my commentary on #mHRDD and the new multi-stakeholder Initiative in @Switzerland: The Swiss Sustainable Coffee Platform @SECO_CH - bhr.stern.nyu.edu/quick-take/a-n… #BizHumanRights @focusright_ltd