Draxula
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What were big aha's that changed your view of the next 10 years over your lifetime? And when I say aha immediately allowed you to picture 10 year from now
Some of mine
1. Beta of Netscape web browser 1995 iirc
2. DSL vs dial up, always on internet
3. Amazon
4. Napster
5. AOL for my kids
6. BlackBerry
7. 9/11
8. Fiber speed
9. HFT/Rentech, Hull, Knight
10. iPhone 4 and smart phone Internet
11. QE Era and the permanent priority of financial stability over sound money
12. Palantir at BW in 2011
13. Big Data/web scraping /compute/ml offsite with Brevan Howard in Lake Como in 2016 which gave me AI
14. ChatGPT moment in winter of 2022-2023
Those are the ones that impacted my future outlook.
I imagine CT followers will find it funny I don't include BTC, Blockchain, and Crypto but while I get it. I've never had an AHA moment like these above. Still not sure it matters at all. But if it does my aha moment was spring of 2017 when the guy who owned my gym told me about his bitcoin mining activity. Since the. Bitcoin has rallied 16% per annum with stupid drawdowns and low ratio. But again. Not the point of this little review. So relax CT guys. I didnt miss it I just don't care as much as you.
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@RogerMarshallMD @realDonaldTrump 1) that’s (purposely) deceptive, 97% of people in rural America did not vote for him…and besides, that doesn’t change the economic reality for these hospitals , 2) you actually accentuate the importance of that tiny slice of the overall US Medicaid budget to those communities!
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97% of rural America voted for President @realDonaldTrump.
Democrats don’t understand rural America. Only 5% of Medicaid funds reach rural hospitals.
Rural hospitals are struggling because of failed Democrat policies.
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@walterkirn How long did My Life as a Slob take to write? Shorter or longer bc of lived experience! One of the funniest essays I’ve ever read
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I sit here writing a page a day.
A book takes me a year.
Those pages are fed into a machine along with those of a million other writers who sweated it out and the machine can produce a book in ten seconds. You can even prompt the machine to write in my style.
So who is going to want to be a writer?
And what publisher is going to pay for those exertions?
No one and none.
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@BasedMikeLee you are the worst coward, hack Trump sycophant, hypocrite and traitor. It’s shameful you represent the same people Mitt Romney did. Have a nice Saturday
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@BasedMikeLee Yeah you mean like when you nod along to hijacking taxpayer dollars to inefficiently send to red state farmers when trumps tariffs debilitate them to quell them politically?
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I despise remakes, especially of movies I love. That said, I would have tickets to opening night for this one.
erin proctor@postproctorism
what if Kieran Culkin played Mozart in an Amadeus revival with Jeremy Strong as Salieri walk with me here
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@EricLDaugh Maybe because we don’t live in a totalitarian state where the judiciary is a handmaiden to an autocrat?
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AI models will get extremely good at deceiving humans if we teach them to lie, which is what WokeAI is doing. “Trust & Safety” should be replaced with Truth & Safety.
Matthew Berman@MatthewBerman
Anthropic just dropped an insane new paper. AI models can "fake alignment" - pretending to follow training rules during training but reverting to their original behaviors when deployed! Here's everything you need to know: 🧵
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@HoodieRamey Shhhh I don’t want anyone on my west coast fantasy league to know he exists
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@whale_capper Gonna need the ol swap with some Victor Troick-pee to enable the needed pick me up!
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With less than 10 hours to go, I'm still paralyzed with indecision.
Paul Charchian@PaulCharchian
Wednesday night conundrum: @LCDSoundsystem at The Armory OR Timberwolves Game 1 vs Mavs Wolves game probably doesn’t end early enough to do both.
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@SFMayorsOffice not a good strategy for reelection = gleefully handing out 8am residential parking tickets with a fleet of dpt cruisers morning after a holiday
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@aditishekar Imagine a society where your Supervisor does anything for their constituents other than spout self righteous pablum while padding nimby landlords!
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@ravens4dummies @jakelouque Just one tho. You guys were really awesome this season, kept me sane
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@ravens4dummies @jakelouque Seattle airport = SEA-TAC but their kicker boomed one like our boy Tuck
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