@FixingEducation The entire study on delayed gratification was massively flawed and disproven. It does not lead to any long term benefit.
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A simple visual for kids (and adults) to understand delayed gratification.
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@ValerioCapraro @ylecun Just moving the goalposts. Not long ago we used the Turing test and now we’ve blown way past that.
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Terence Tao put it plainly: there is no evidence that LLMs exhibit genuine creativity.
Yes, they have solved some Erdős problems. But these are low-hanging fruit, questions that attracted little attention and that yield once the right existing techniques are applied. That is not creativity. That is search plus recombination.
Yes, LLM outputs can look impressive. But look at who is impressed: typically non-experts. Experts know very well that LLM performance gets terrible when you approach the frontier of human knowledge.
And this is not a temporary gap. It reflects a structural limitation.
We do not fully understand human creativity. But we do know a key property:
Conceptual leaps: the ability to generate new representations, not just recombine existing ones.
LLMs do not do this. They interpolate in representation space. They operate within existing conceptual frameworks; they do not create new ones.
This is why we haven’t “yet seen them take the next step”.
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For shits and giggles, I decided to see just how hard it would be to replace my birth certificate, Social Security card, AND my marriage license, since Democrats think women are too stupid to figure it out.
Here's how it went:
1. Birth certificate: Contacted the health department of the county where I was born. They OVERNIGHTED a certified copy to me the next day - total cost, $14.
2. SS Card: Contacted Social Security on their site. They asked if I was sure I needed the card, since I 'won't likely be asked for it.' I went ahead and got it - took five business days to arrive - total cost, $0.
3. Marriage License: Went to the 'vital docs' site of the county where we were hitched. Filled everything out online, arrived in three days - total cost, $5.
It cost less than $20 to obtain all three certified/legal documents, and it took less than five business days to receive them. Note: if I had lived where I was born or married, it would have been a day. Tops.
Anyone telling you this is too hard or unfair is lying and hiding the real reason they want to stop Voter ID.
I know you guys knew that already... lol
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Max rates for the Bulgari Hotel in Paris
In what circumstance would you spend €7400/night on a room?
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POV: A guy with ChatGPT and Google AlphaFold just built a custom mRNA cancer vaccine to save his dog.
this story is actually insane.
a tech guy in australia adopted a rescue dog with aggressive cancer and only months to live.
so he did something wild:
> paid ~$3k to sequence the tumor dna
> used chatgpt to analyze the mutations
> used google’s alphafold to model the proteins
> identified drug targets and designed a custom mRNA cancer vaccine
he had zero background in biology.
after months of paperwork, the vaccine was approved and injected.
within weeks the tumor shrank dramatically and the dog started recovering.
meanwhile pharma companies are running $1B trials to do the exact same thing.
the future of personalized medicine with AI is going to be insane.
vittorio@IterIntellectus
this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get
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@SpencerHakimian Ships don't sail through desert, not yet at least.
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This is probably a stupid question but can someone explain it to me like I’m 5.
If Iran blocks off the Persian Gulf/Strait of Hormuz, why can’t countries must move their oil through The Red Sea/Gulf of Aden?
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@aussieflya @pitdesi $50/day to the guy who cleans it. $100 to that guy's boss. $200 to that guy's boss. $400 to that guy's boss. $250 to a consulting firm to figure out why costs are so high.
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In San Francisco, we have 30 freestanding toilets that are available for free public use.
They cost the city $14M last year, and recorded 750,000 visits, ~$19 per visit.
Carl@HistoryBoomer
Here’s something the Euros do better. Tap your credit card, pay 1.2€, and get a well-maintained public toilet. Hello @NYCMayor ? Can’t we have this?
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@JPBillingsgate @JamesSurowiecki And paying off student loans at a clip of 50k per year …
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@JamesSurowiecki Wow, successful professional is putting...[checks math]...31%+ of her take home into savings and retirement each month? How incredibly reckless!
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She's saving $120,000 a year! Her money is not "disappearing."
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@DDrolapas @rohindhar You can penalize vacant units to make the value of vacant vs occupied similar. Your perspective is on the side of making it easier to evict. Mine is on reducing incentives to leave vacant.
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@BryantChhun @rohindhar No it's rent control in this scenario. Prop 13 is a moot point for the occupied vs non occupied math. Property taxes get reassessed in a sale anyway.
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The flip side of this is for small multifamily in San Francisco (duplex, triplex, etc)
If if you buy vacant and later sell tenant-occupied
You torch most of your equity on fire
Dimitris Drolapas@DDrolapas
How to make money owning San Francisco apartments: Buy occupied, sell vacant. Buy when rates are high, sell when rates are low. Buy studios/ 1 bedrooms, sell when you convert them to 1 bedrooms/ 2 bedrooms. Or just buy and hold for 30 years.
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@DDrolapas @rohindhar Especially since prop 13 basically guarantees vacancy tax is illegal. The problem isn’t rent control imo it’s prop13.
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@rohindhar Yup. Math makes sense to leave vacant most of the time.
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@TimothyImholt @texasrunnerDFW @unusual_whales I think is pretty clear he just wants current homeowners to build their wealth. He has no interest in building more homes, only to reduce interest rates and spike the money supply so that homes get even more expensive.
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@texasrunnerDFW @unusual_whales Did he just tell anyone who doesn’t already own a home because they were 15 when they would have been affordable to fuck off?
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Trump: "People that own their homes: we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."
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@InterestingSTEM Cool but also falling hazard and maybe the fie department would like a word.
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This USA Guy Turns Ceiling Space into Money Making Business Idea
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THIS IS WHY NO ONE GOES TO THE MOVIES ANY MORE TOO EXPENSIVE THIS IS HOW THEY TREAT THEIR "STUBS" MEMBERS PATHETIC
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@ResidentSooner @sciencegirl No. The geometry looks fine. The drawer fits under the cabinet when it’s closed. The issue is this takes more space than a normal corner cabinet but is probably more practical.
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@sciencegirl Hate to break it to you, but it’s not real.
Think about where the drawer goes when it’s closed? The wall behind the cabinets would have to be hollow for the drawer to fit.
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@R60658294 @worldsokuho It’s the chicxulub crater on the Yucatán peninsula. Not visible today but there are diagrams on Wikipedia.
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@DearS_o_n This is the true conclusion of the marshmallow test. When children trust the adults will deliver they will choose to wait for 2 marshmallows. It has nothing to do with delayed gratification.
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@Science_TechTV @InterestingSTEM 10B right now because you don’t know how long you’re gonna live.
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Without using your calculator, which are you choosing???
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@Yin_NGMI @MLFootball The only way we had a balanced budget was to tax the rich and cut spending. In the 90’s we had a 50% federal bracket for the amount over 500k I believe.
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🚨🚨THIS IS BRUTAL🚨🚨
#Rams star wide receiver Puka Nacua revealed that he CANNOT AFFORD a home in Los Angeles and has to rent a apartment.
Nacua was a 5th round pick, will only make one million dollars this year, he has to pay $520,000 in taxes and only comes home with $480k.
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@Science_TechTV @InterestingSTEM They only go 40mph when they want a big wide hug.
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Bears can reach speeds of 40 mph, making running away extremely dangerous.
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