@aaaronson I am shocked to not see "Barbra Streisand" by Duck Sauce on this list already. open.spotify.com/track/782lNGn2…
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Luke Mastalli-Kelly
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Luke Mastalli-Kelly
@LucidLunatic
PhD in Physics, working in Quantum Computing, Former Trustee @ Harvey Mudd College. Opinions are my own, not those of my employer.
New Haven, CT Katılım Aralık 2008
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@cleoabram I assume you've read Seveneves by Neal Stephenson? Fun sci-fi that begins with this scenario.
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@keccers The term was being used when I joined my current org in 2020, at least.
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@cleoabram @Morning_Joe I wonder how many of the folks making the Bill Nye allusion know that you share a (high school) alma mater.
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HUGE* on @Morning_Joe this am: “One of the fastest growing shows on YouTube. HUGE* If True has amassed more than 8 million subscribers and fans are calling the host Cleo Abram the Bill Nye for the next generation. Cleo delivers an optimistic take on how science and technology can make the future better…”
YouTube shows are as good as TV -- or better. That's why now, we and other YouTube shows are excited to submit for Primetime Emmy consideration. Stay tuned...
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@Noahpinion The shift to a services based economy, then? Later than I would have presumed. I suppose I'm missing knowledge of what share of the economy has an upward inflection point circa 2000, explaining all the others.
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@LucidLunatic I don't think this is about that, no. You see the same peak and decline for manufacturing, agriculture, etc.
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@vanillaopinions @hellworld_0 We merged (hyphenated) our mothers' maiden names!
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@AlanMCole While I don't disagree with this, I think it is valuable to consider each of their stories-- Platner's is that he has evolved significantly over the years. Some voters find that attractive relative to long term consistency; signals he may evolve towards [voter's positions].
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To respond as simply as possible:
- There are different types of progressive, bearing different aesthetics and policy emphases
- and the type without a Totenkopf are legitimately better on policy on average. Having a Totenkopf is a legitimate signal of bad policy acumen.
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@keccers You're certainly correct. I suspect a similar mismatch of talent to opportunity was likely a factor in the headlines we woke up to this morning as well. Any ideas for how to fix it?
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@keccers That was a fun read when I was a kid. Potentially worth noting that it was published in 2005, when nuclear was still on the decline in the US. I'm optimistic that this outcome would be less likely today.
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@Noahpinion LLMs are jumped up Markov-chains; but they are trained on enormous amounts of data. They are very useful; they can do a ton. None of that changes what they are.
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If "autocomplete" can do math better than you, write code better than you, forecast the future better than you, and persuade swing voters better than you, then calling it "autocomplete" starts sounding like defensive cope
wanye@xwanyex
What’s currently cooking the brains of every smart AI booster is the idea that if LLMs autocomplete good enough, then that magically becomes something different in kind. But there’s no evidence for this. It’s just breathlessly asserted over and over again on the basis of thought experiments.
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@typesfast @Pivot2Centre I assume you mean either a subset of ships don't or that traffic is much reduced- from atlas it looks like a Maersk container ship just transited the Suez canal.
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@Pivot2Centre Container ships have not been using the Suez since Dec 2023 bc of terrorist attacks in the Red Sea.
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Imagine if Suez gets blocked. Carnage!
Ryan Petersen@typesfast
5 years ago and yet it feels like a whole different timeline
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@brian_armstrong I think your personal philosophy here is reasonable. On the other hand, Andreessen's historical statements suggest he's unaware of... well, history. Multiple schools of philosophy and religion dating back thousands of years contradict him.
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For me the best way to think about this: snorkel, don’t scuba.
Diving too deep is a bit dangerous, and people get lost down there. Take glances at what’s beneath (lots of pretty fish!) from near the surface, and then get back to work. Wherever your motivation comes from (revenge, fear, competition, love of the game, learning, impact) is fine - harness it and get moving.
I personally do some journaling (appreciations, write out goals, figure out what I want to get done tomorrow, etc) but then stop procrastinating and get after it.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.
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@MattZeitlin I've been pretty happy with them as my primary subscription/news source the last few years.
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i love all mainstream print media but the wsj has really been killing it
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@TheStalwart String theory is my least favorite physics discipline. That said, if you haven't read it, I recommend reading Flatland to give some perspective on dimensional perception.
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I still don’t get extreme multidimensional space. How could there be more than three dimensions. Ok time. Fine that’s four. But more than that? Come on.
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@keccers Jeremy Singer at FAFSA, and the team brought into fix healthcare.gov come to mind. Many political appointees deserve to be tarred with that brush, though. Born in D.C., parents career Fed and federal contractor respectively; I have some opinions.
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@keccers Are you just thinking political appointees, or career folks as well (not uncommon even at that level to leave and return-- not unlike the private sector, that can be the surest way to a promotion, with additional regulatory hurdles)? Some visiting positions fit the mold well 1/2
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@tobinjstone I was going to link you to a piece describing the Costco in LA designed to have apartments above it, but since you include the render in one of your responses, I see you are aware.
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it's an idiotic, massive waste of space. A truly wealthy society would put the parking underneath the Costco, make the Costco itself the same size as the parking lot, and put apartments on top of the costco.
Preston Guy@PGuy77
Our biggest failure as a society is not having all parking lots designed like Costco’s.
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Shocking that one of the most prominent financial regulatory offices now lacks any trial lawyers. barrons.com/articles/predi…
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@keccers Propping up the stock market will get harder as we lose population growth as a driver, too.
The way a large drop in an asset price will mean losing everything for someone is if they were heavily leveraged-- which many in the crypto space are. Exposure via a 2X ETF, for example.
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