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@norvid_studies @eshaanissar Gini coefficient weighted impressions count

@norvid_studies @eshaanissar top metrics on nikita’s dashboard wrong answers only

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@norvid_studies @eshaanissar I think the claim was that if you owned twitter you could make it not suck, not that you could replace twitter

@eshaanissar claim is usually more neutral but I'm actually pretty skeptical of this one, a) no one's done it and b) the things he complains about ("removes some groupthink") are pretty endogenous, like the % who'd leave twitter for new app are selected for being weird in same dimension

@voooooogel thin client revealed as curl|sh in a trenchcoat

honestly why hasn't anthropic just moved claude code behind the api boundary already? (reducing the local binary to a logicless thin client for ui + tool execution) it'd help with their anti-distillation efforts and they wouldn't have to deal with fingerprinting clients anymore

@Silicon_alien @pleometric field researchers draw straws to see who will take off their gloves for the roundness inspection x.com/DailyMantle3/s…

@pleometric im trying to see if manuls are fat or just furry. no smoking gun yet, but i found a 156 page PhD thesis on cat fur and it appears to be full of wisdom dspace.cuni.cz/bitstream/hand…

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@Ayjchan @tgof137 @mbw61567742 @DerekPederson3 Weissman already writes down his arguments in detail and nobody reads them. What’s needed is a simpler video version that bloggers will watch perhaps.

@tgof137 @mbw61567742 @DerekPederson3 I believe this format would be the most productive. x.com/Ayjchan/status…

@mbw61567742 @Ayjchan @DerekPederson3 Okay, so what's the problem that needs to be solved? More accessibility to the best arguments?

@ramez @tgof137 @Afinetheorem @BrendanNyhan Lineage B spread from the market. Lineage A was almost certainly earlier and it skipped the market.

@tgof137 @Afinetheorem @BrendanNyhan Yes. This is a key part of understanding what happened, and which points convincingly to zoonotic origin spread from the market.

Concur that COVID was very likely zoonotic in origin. That's always been the most likely scenario, and the evidence has just grown stronger. (See below.) From a policy standpoint, I don't think it matters much. 1. Some past pandemics have originated from labs. We can do better in lab safety protocols and in transparency. 2. Many deadly outbreaks have zoonotic origins. No matter how well we do on labs, these will remain a risk. 3. We are massively under investing in pathogen monitoring and detection, in vaccine technology, and in other kinds of pandemic preparedness. There's high overlap between the preparedness we need for natural outbreaks, lab leaks, and AI-related bio risk. Politics and tribalism are causing us to be far less prepared than we ought to be. Finally, here is a good starting point for the case that zoonotic origin is by far more likely than a lab leak in the case of COVID-19. x.com/i/status/19415…

@conor64 @patrickc Unlike the other listed public health blackpills, lab leak dismissal is still out there corroding trust.

@patrickc Yep, the lab leak thing was truly a fiasco

A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.

Market Covid origin rests on an outlier, a single sample of the oldest lineage. Every market case and every other sample was from later. Prevalence of the oldest strain outside the market ~40%, prevalence inside ~0. Very implausible that lineage A passed through the market.

Salvador Dali - Corpus Hypercubus (1954)

IT IS POSSIBLE YOU WERE LIED TO WHEN YOU WERE TOLD YOU'D UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU GOT OLDER

There’s a type of story that you might not recognize as a cautionary tale until it is too late. For some this is La Bohème, for others The Soul of a New Machine.

@robinhanson Did they replicate the timing of when the transients disappeared or just find old flashes?

I've reviewed public criticism of this stuff since last August and, together with this recent confirmation, I now estimate >80% chance of many >10cm artificial flat reflecting surfaces in Earth orbit pre-Sputnik.

@abelian_soup graphics is fun because some of the bugs look great. early dev log a series of pleasing bug screenshots

my shader export compression is mightily broken and the effect is eerily reminiscent of trying to make out details in a night sky obscured by light pollution, except the sky now has intermittent complex transforms darting across its surface

Tim Rutherford-Johnson - Long Shadows avant-classical x shoegaze mix mixcloud.com/moderncomp/lon…

@zetalyrae The streets were regraded after the houses were built, when you see a driveway like that compare it to the other side of the street.

SF trip liveblog thread

@schlynthesis I don’t think there’s an SOD resistant coast live oak yet, and the hope would be to save the existing big trees, whether already infected or just susceptible. Similarly for the emerald ash borer or pine and spruce beetles.

@3corch3 correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t that the same as the chestnut thing where it’s easy but also a GMO so trapped in regulation hell?

if you cure sudden oak death we will find you a row of century old oaks and probably name a park after you

@fleetingbits I suck at design, but for body text I think typography should be dull. Type of barbarian that removes a webfont to speed cold page load time and believes the browser’s reader mode improves most typography. Math typography is impressive because it’s actually content.

@3corch3 is there a typography guide that you recommend for websites? or any websites that you think have particularly impressive typography?

Web design has mostly recovered from the typography snobs but traces are still visible in Beige Manifesto style line spacing. If it’s not a book you don’t need to shrink the text to harmonize verso and recto but Bringhurst and Butterick’s rules persist as signalling.

@fleetingbits the mitts here are an interesting approach