Philip Edmundson

@iiiorg The Gallagher Re study shows that 2025 losses are abating despite a single hugely catastrophic event in the Q1 CA wildfires. The big story here is that cat losses are reverting to the mean in 2025.

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Today Thinking Machines Lab is launching our research blog, Connectionism. Our first blog post is “Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference” We believe that science is better when shared. Connectionism will cover topics as varied as our research is: from kernel numerics to prompt engineering. Here we share what we are working on and connect with the research community frequently and openly. The name Connectionism is a throwback to an earlier era of AI; it was the name of the subfield in the 1980s that studied neural networks and their similarity to biological brains. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating…

ft.pressreader.com/article/281835… @CassSunstein sees little change in climate change attitudes from events like the Texas floods

@MAGASignal_ @StephenM tt

Time to get loud for @StephenM If you fully support Stephen Miller for everything he’s done for MAGA, drop a “👍” below I tagged him so he will absolutely see it

@sues86453 tt

These people don’t belong in America. They are illegal… waving another country’s flag… showing zero respect and full entitlement. Deport them all!

@RiskInsurance Can you direct us to your source(s) for this statement: “Police make dozens of arrests every day for “offensive” electronically posted private messages, while most shoplifters walk free”?

If the judiciary is willing to ignore the law as a means of correcting perceived injustice, sooner or later it will be incumbent on insurance to do the same. ow.ly/Ve4o50VU21I

America needs to build 5 million homes and 5 Hoover Dams' worth of nuclear power this decade. The status quo won't deliver that speed and scale, so Congress needs to take action and relieve bottlenecks in housing and energy that lower prices for the middle class.

@JenGriffinFNC So much we don’t know still. Were the Houthis tipped off by this insecure communications? They may have suffered worse. Surely they won’t tell us if the got the feed from the Kremlin where one Signalgate recipient (Witkoff) read his messages. Other Signal uses? Current practice?

There is a debate about whether the operational details Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared in the Signal Group Chat were "classified" or not. So I surveyed a range of current and former US defense officials who agreed "war plans" is not the right term but what was shared may have been FAR MORE sensitive given the operational details and time stamps ahead of the operation, which could have placed US military pilots in harms way. What Hegseth shared two hours ahead of the strikes were time sensitive “attack orders” or “operational plans” with actual timing of the strikes and mention of F18s, MQ9 Reapers and Tomahawks. This information is typically sent through classified channels to the commanders in the field as “secret, no forn” message. In other words the information is "classified" and should not be shared through insecure channels. “Attack orders” or “attack sequence” puts the joint force directly and immediately at risk, according to former senior defense official #1. “It allows the enemy to move the target and increase lethal actions against US forces.” This kind of real time operational information is more sensitive than “war plans,” which makes this lapse more egregious, according to two former senior US defense officials. “This information was clearly classified,” according to former senior defense official #1. The Defense Secretary can retroactively declassify information after the fact, but the fact that this was shared in real time before the strike took place makes it unlikely to have been declassified when it was being shared and seen by the journalist for The Atlantic who was inadvertently included in the Signal chat. According to a second former senior US defense official, when Hegseth says he didn’t release “war plans” that is pure semantics. These were “attack plans.” “If you are revealing who is going to be attacked (Houthis – the name of the text chain), it still gives the enemy warning. When you release the time of the attack – all of that is always ‘classified’.”

We make our argument everywhere. Everyday. In every forum. My column for @FoxNews explaining how Trump is betraying the working class voters who supported him by turning our government over to the billionaires and corporations. foxnews.com/opinion/donald…

This is where #CitizensUnited has taken us as a country. Musk (and why not others) are now brazen enough to threaten certain non-complying legislators with professional extinction. nytimes.com/live/2024/12/1…

Short all the structured CRM companies... a personal example with NotebookLM.

@inakib Do you think this investment “non-compete” will matter, @inakib ?

OpenAI's new round: Creative ways to raise the largest VC funding round in history ($6.6B at a $157B valuation): 1) Thrive Capital has the right to invest up to $1B more at this valuation through 2025. 2) Investors are forbidden from investing in 5 named competitors: -Anthropic -xAI -SSI (Ilya's company) -Perplexity -Glean

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@inakib Classic interpretation

My 2023 #Spotify wrapped: 31k minutes (22 days non stop) and couldn’t get enough of the Goldberg Variations by the eccentric genius Glenn Gould

Mitt Romney, Rory Stewart and the tragedy of politics ft.com/content/511ea7…. Indeed, Romney the tragic hero of Massachusetts Healthcare reform. Without him, no proof point for Obamacare. Policy victories like healthcare reform are too quickly forgotten. Thanks, @MittRomney

@inakib Great story, Inaki. Did you go to the Animal Forest Park and the arcades at Short Sands Beach?

This summer marks the 30th anniversary of the 1993 trip that changed my life. It seemed like a #summer trip, but it was the beginning of a lifetime #journey. As Ortega y Gasset wrote, “A horizon open to all possibilities is the true fullness of life”. @inakib/the-summer-of-30-years-ago-i-started-a-lifetime-trip-55312574d7d4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@inakib/the-su…

via @NYTimes a challenge for #AI and #LLMs nytimes.com/2023/07/10/art…

In order to maintain our industry-leading loss ratio, Corvus is focused on building trusted relationships that extend value to all insurance stakeholders, including brokers, risk capital partners, and policyholders businesswire.com/news/home/2023… #cyberinsurance #saferworld

Please welcome @KatieTheoharides as the next President and CEO of The Trustees. Katie joins the organization after having served as Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs in the Baker-Polito Administration thetrustees.org/content/katie-…

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