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Alex Q 🔥

@AlexQueue

Currently: computational plasma physics. Previously: mozzarella sticks engineer, full stack.

Berlin Katılım Mayıs 2011
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The Refined Populist
The Refined Populist@RefinedPopulist·
If your 1970’s home is now worth $1M, you’re on the hook for ~$10K/yr. Based entirely on unrealized gains. That’s absurd for the fixed-income elderly. Property taxes SHOULD be abolished for Boomers. But they should be abolished for everyone else too. Property taxes are evil.
🌘ʀᴇᴠᴇɴᴀɴᴛ⚡@revenant_MMXX

Boomers act like property taxes are some massive burden when it's only a few thousand per year in the vast majority of places. It's the equivalent of coming up with a couple hundred bucks a month. These are the people lecturing you about buying a sandwich.

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Ben Lorber
Ben Lorber@BenLorber8·
Nearly half of American Jews under 35 support a binational state in Israel/Palestine according to a recent poll. If we define Zionism as support for a Jewish state, nearly half of young Jews are non/anti-Zionist. More young Jews support binationalism than a two state solution.
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Bennie🕊️
Bennie🕊️@Bennieeexyz·
My son turned 11 and asked for sushi for his birthday dinner. Done. Made the reservation. Then my in-laws called. They were coming into town and wanted to get together. I invited them along. One problem. My sister in law doesn't eat anything with Asian origin. Says it gives her migraines. For years we'd rearranged plans around this without question. I sat down with my son. Me: Hey. Your aunt doesn't really do Asian food. Would you consider somewhere else? Him: (looked at me) Him: It's my birthday. Me: I know. Him: I want sushi. Me: (fair) I called the in-laws. Explained everything. Told them they were welcome to come to ours the next day for the Superbowl instead if the restaurant didn't work. Them: We want to see you both days. Me: Then we'll see you both days. I figured that was their decision to make. We showed up to the restaurant. My son ordered everything he wanted. My sister in law sat down, looked at the menu for a long time, and ordered edamame and white rice. She was fine. No migraine. My son ate sushi until he could not move. Him: (on the way home, completely full) Him: Best birthday. Me: (looked at him) Me: Yeah? Him: Can we do this every year? Me: (thought about the in-laws) Me: (thought about the edamame) Me: (thought about his face at that table) Me: Absolutely.
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Kitten 🐈
Kitten 🐈@kitten_beloved·
@GeorgeJourneys It would get old pretty fast, most of the time you'd be somewhere in the pacific with no land in sight anywhere
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Geoff Penington
Geoff Penington@quantum_geoff·
But with a bit more work you can find an ensemble of strategies (think binary search with noisy guesses) where every fixed choice he might make has positive expected payoff (across strategies). So the Nash equilibrium has a positive payoff and you should always play
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Geoff Penington
Geoff Penington@quantum_geoff·
He is wrong on both counts here. It’s easy to check that if Ballmer picks randomly, binary search will give an expected payoff of $0.20. Of course, if he knows your strategy he can choose a number that you will never pick in the first six turns and thereby win 1/
andrew engler@aerockrose

Steve Ballmer reveals the interview test Microsoft used to separate problem-solvers from gamblers: "I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100. First guess, I give you $5. Then $4, $3, $2, $1. After that, you pay me." "There are far more numbers on which you lose than win."

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The Oracle🏺
The Oracle🏺@ScalesOfThemis6·
@joshgerstein You generally *can’t* waive the application of federal regulatory law in settlements or contracts, but I think law is passe these days or something
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Josh Gerstein
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein·
FLASH: DOJ expands settlement in Trump-IRS leak suit to cover audits of all tax returns filed by Trump, family members, companies and trusts. Waiver of IRS' claims contained in addendum signed by AAG Blanche that was not in agreement released Monday politico.com/news/2026/05/1…
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Alex Q 🔥@AlexQueue·
@ostschlampe @hmurari @aerockrose No. there are numbers that you do not get to with a basic binary search in under 6 guesses. you can modify the algorithm to win in those cases, but this would also lose in more other cases. In the end, you’ll lose almost all the time.
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andrew engler
andrew engler@aerockrose·
Steve Ballmer reveals the interview test Microsoft used to separate problem-solvers from gamblers: "I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100. First guess, I give you $5. Then $4, $3, $2, $1. After that, you pay me." "There are far more numbers on which you lose than win."
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Michael V 💎
Michael V 💎@PolarMicha·
@aerockrose Just tell me after every guess if the number is higher or lower than my last guess. It's as simple as that.
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Steve Leben
Steve Leben@Judge_Leben·
@KelseyReichmann @BellanMelissa I’m confused. Stories indicate the judge set a $500,000 bond. No one who has been in prison for 29 years has a spare half million sitting around. Is someone willing to arrange this bond? Or is it a victory in name only?
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Kelsey Reichmann
Kelsey Reichmann@KelseyReichmann·
WOW an Oklahoma judge grants Richard Glossip's bond request He has been incarcerated for 29 years, faced 9 execution dates and ate 3 last meals. Last year, SCOTUS said he deserved a new hearing after prosecutorial misconduct was uncovered. courthousenews.com/supreme-court-…
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e-bride-za
e-bride-za@thefemiurge·
my most extreme non-ideological position? Supreme Court Justices should have to take a vow of celibacy. i just think it'd be funny, very game of thrones
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Alex Q 🔥@AlexQueue·
@OrinKerr why does it matter if 60 is just as likely as 62, when the threshold is 61? Seems like the only important question is “can this machine misinterpret 60 as 61” and the answer to that is Yes.
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Orin Kerr
Orin Kerr@OrinKerr·
Fun opinion on how to determine a car's speed, per Deahl. But I'm not 100% sure I agree with it. Why does the fact that the camera was certified, as legally required, to be +/- 1 mph in accuracy mean that the speed recorded of 11mph over made it "just as likely that he was traveling less than 11 mph over the speed limit as more than 11 mph over." The critical question should be the basis for that certification, not the fact of it.
John Elwood@johnpelwood

A former colleague just beat a DC speed-camera ticket at the DC Court of Appeals. DC tried to make a ±1 mph margin of error vanish by regulation. The court held a coin flip isn’t clear and convincing evidence. Ticket dismissed; math remains undefeated. dccourts.gov/sites/default/…

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Alex Q 🔥@AlexQueue·
@floridamodern1 @pfau Agreed with you in the first half but the gerontocracy is a real thing driven by societal factors so that’s not the example I would have picked.
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WOR$T D¥KE IN AMERICA@comradedykepop·
@pfau generations are also just a form of anti politics where people attribute aspects of society to arbitrary age instead of material factors. see the "gerentocracy" framing of politics. like. no girl. the politicians are bad bc they are beholden to capital, regardless of age.
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David Pfau
David Pfau@pfau·
Generations are mostly a fake concept, except when a historic event like WWII actually creates a stark dividing line in lived experience based on age. COVID was one of those events, and yet we're not allowed to change where the line is because of some Salon thinkpiece in 2016.
coffee@eventualforever

there’s a much harder and clearer difference between older zoomers and younger zoomers than there is between younger zoomers and all of gen alpha

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Alex Q 🔥
Alex Q 🔥@AlexQueue·
@profmarkcollard @AdamZivo When I took the SATs there was an essay portion. The whole damn country. It’s not impossible for 30 person classes.
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Mark Collard
Mark Collard@profmarkcollard·
The straightforwardness of the solution is a bit deceptive. Handwritten in-person exams are do-able for small classes (they don''t even need to be hand written; they can be done on computers that don't have access to the internet). Ditto for oral exams. But these forms of assessment are much trickier to utilise once a class goes above ca. 30 people, because they're so time consuming. For example, administering a 15-min per person oral exam for 40 people requires at least ten hours, and almost certainly at least two people to act as examiners. Many 100-level undergrad classes now have enrollments in the multiple 100s, which makes oral exams and in-person exams very tricky. A further problem to be wrestled with is the availability of rooms, if every prof switches to in-person exams. Lastly, we've spent the last 40 years moving towards multiple assessments of a range of different types to better capture student knowledge and skills. So, we're talking about a major conceptual change too. It's going to be more like turning a super-tanker than a speed boat.
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Adam Zivo
Adam Zivo@AdamZivo·
I find this discourse perplexing because the solution seems straigthforward: make university marks almost entirely dependent on lengthy in-person exams that combine handwritten essays with oral questioning. Why is this even a conversation? Are there implementation barriers or something?
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@LuizaJarovsky

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700+ subscribers (link below).

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Tevin
Tevin@YourBudTevin·
I’ve seen like 800 tweets about this but my simple way of thinking is: If you choose blue, you don’t want anyone to die. It is impossible for anyone to die if you press blue. If you choose red, you are afraid of others choosing red. The only way anyone dies at all is if you choose red. When I read this, I actually don’t think about myself. I think about hurting the least amount of people. So I pick blue.
MrBeast@MrBeast

Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press? BE HONEST.

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Alex Q 🔥
Alex Q 🔥@AlexQueue·
@EVplusBRO @AniseNot All thought experiments are arbitrary. "This thought experiment is arbitrary" is not a dunk.
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Logical Sports Takes
Logical Sports Takes@EVplusBRO·
@AniseNot "How about I add stipulations to make this a completely different thought experiment"
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Alex Q 🔥@AlexQueue·
@jalessahj Maybe it’s caused by vagueposting. It definitely correlates.
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