TheThinker

@StanphylCap "Mamdani prevailed at all income levels, doing best with high-income voters." W.T.F.

@ThinkerThe1 catholicleague.org/profile-of-mam…

This antisemitic jackass has NO IDEA who butters his bread (or, for that matter, donates most of the money that run this city's cultural institutions). Fuck him and the camel he rode in on.

@StanphylCap Cheers. Things must be bad when New York votes for a bloody socialist.

@ThinkerThe1 Part of the problem is that people really hated his opponent (Cuomo), who as governor killed a lot of old people by keeping them in Covid-infested nursing homes and had to resign in disgrace for sexual harassment. So Mamdani's opponent was lousy.

@ReadingThePlay The only solution is to field all 30 players. And have an offensive and defensive team. Offensive team when you have the ball and defensive when you don't.

Where’s that so called Independent Commission - Board… “One chief executive who spoke to Sport Confidential on Wednesday said that the clubs harboured deep concerns over changes that had been made given the NRL was coming off one of the most exciting – and watched – seasons in the code’s history.” No… You kidding me.

@zriboua New name - rubble.

The BRICS look now like a very distant dream.

@Scutty The war might be nearly over (doubtful) but the consequences aren't.

Lot of indices that ran hard on the war ending narrative are suddenly looking a tad toppy.

@PeteWargent Which begs the question - Growth of what?

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@Mark_Graph @TheIPA Also Transport - Uber, Doordash etc Retail and restaurants Commercial cleaning Shopping centre staff

The question not asked: Australia currently relies on migration to staff hospitals, aged care facilities and disability services, and to contain inflation. Given this, would you support reducing migration if it meant higher costs for aged care, longer hospital wait times and higher inflation?

“4 in 5 Australians want immigration reduced.” The public is clear. The policy isn’t. For more: bit.ly/3PnuzSJ

@BaldingsWorld Imagine how many other companies are now doing the numbers and seeing the future in the US with cheap energy and a huge market. A great start!

Chinese metals are enormously subsidized a variety of ways so the sad reality is that to do away with this, prices have to rise but yes this is a good step to address this key vulnerability

@hydrogeoscience @sydney_ev No familiar with buses, trains bikes, etc?

@sydney_ev Last I checked, Australia hardly produces any technology that can be used instead. Also, the fearmongering only ever goes towards China ... very predictably.

Sky news report, "all Evs Batteries, Solar and wind come from China, and they could cut us off at the pass at any moment!" .. so don't get an Ev.. Well..

@PeteWargent Times have changed a bit I think.

brand has lost over 3/4 of its value get back to this…

In 1948, a 32-year-old at Bell Labs published a paper nobody fully understood. Engineers found it too mathematical. Mathematicians found it too engineering-focused. One prominent mathematician reviewed it negatively. That paper - "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", became the founding document of the digital age. The man was Claude Shannon. Father of Information Theory. At 21, he wrote the most important master's thesis of the 20th century. Working at MIT on an early mechanical computer, Shannon noticed its relay switches had exactly two states - open or closed. He had just taken a philosophy course introducing Boolean algebra, which also operated on two values: true and false. Nobody had ever connected these two things. His 1937 thesis proved that Boolean algebra and electrical circuits are mathematically identical, and that any logical operation could be built from simple switches. Howard Gardner called it "possibly the most important, and also the most famous, master's thesis of the century." Every digital computer ever built traces back to this insight. At 29, he proved that perfect encryption exists. During WWII, Shannon worked on classified cryptography at Bell Labs. His work contributed to SIGSALY, the secure voice system used for confidential communications between Roosevelt and Churchill. In a classified 1945 memorandum, he mathematically proved the one-time pad provides perfect secrecy, unbreakable not just computationally, but provably, permanently, against an adversary with infinite power. When declassified in 1949, it transformed cryptography from an art into a science. It laid the foundations for DES, AES, and every modern encryption standard. At 32, he defined what information is. His 1948 paper introduced one equation: H = −Σ p(x) log p(x) Shannon entropy. The average uncertainty in a probability distribution. The minimum bits required to encode a message. Three things followed: > He defined the bit - the fundamental unit of all information. His colleague John Tukey coined the name. > He proved the channel capacity theorem, every communication channel has a maximum rate of reliable transmission. You can approach it. You can never exceed it. > He unified telegraph, telephone, and radio into a single mathematical framework for the first time. Robert Lucky of Bell Labs called it the greatest work "in the annals of technological thought." Where his equation lives in AI today: Cross-entropy loss - the function training every classifier and language model, is derived directly from H. Decision tree splits use information gain, which is H applied to data. Perplexity, the standard LLM evaluation metric, is an exponentiation of cross-entropy. Every time a neural network trains, Shannon's formula runs inside it. He also built the first AI learning device. In 1950, Shannon built Theseus, a mechanical mouse that navigated a maze through trial and error, learned the correct path, and repeated it perfectly. Mazin Gilbert of Bell Labs said: "Theseus inspired the whole field of AI." That same year he published the first paper on programming a computer to play chess. He co-organized the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop, the founding event of AI as a field. The man: He rode a unicycle through Bell Labs hallways while juggling. He built a flame-throwing trumpet, a rocket-powered Frisbee, and Styrofoam shoes to walk on the lake behind his house. He called his home Entropy House. When asked what motivated him: "I was motivated by curiosity. Never by the desire for financial gain. I just wondered how things were put together." In 1985, he appeared unexpectedly at a conference in Brighton. The crowd mobbed him for autographs. Persuaded to speak at the banquet, he talked briefly, then pulled three balls from his pockets and juggled instead. One engineer said: "It was as if Newton had showed up at a physics conference." He died in 2001 after a decade with Alzheimer's, the cruel irony of information slowly leaving the mind of the man who defined what information was. Claude, the AI model, is named after Claude Shannon, the mathematician who laid the foundation for the digital world we rely on today.

@PeteWargent Life longevity like Buffett and Dougie is more about relaxed, no worry type guys rather than the get up at 4 am health and wellness crowd.

@ThinkerThe1 Doug W signed a book for me in 1999, then saw him at this thing with Skull in 2006 thoroughbrednews.com.au/news/story/new… would've given decent odds on him still going strong in 2026!!

Double secret blockade

@88888sAccount With the 5% deposit. a generational buying opportunity I’d say.

@Mark_Graph @Noahpinion Scamming older folks with fake calls

@Noahpinion An odd and incomplete list of fears? What about not worried? What about cheating at university? What about ...

Which AI thing worries you most?

@88888sAccount War worsens and what that means for Sydney property.

@PinguCapital Mean reversion is a bitch.

Is McIlroy saving his worst round for last? #themasters

@ReadingThePlay Can’t remember the last time you tipping titans by 42🤪

Jayden Campbell is such a natural talent. So gifted. Pleasure to watch.