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@USAFacts @USAFacts design is really outstanding. Both the front end and the backend did a great job. Makes the insight from complicated facts stand out. Very high quality finish

The federal government spent $101.7 billion on SNAP in FY 2025 — with the average participant (of which there were 42.1 million people) receiving $188 per month. Where does the US see the highest participation rates? 📍New Mexico (21.9%) 📍Washington, DC (20.3%) 📍Oregon (18%)

@emkara I just added a star ⭐. Wishing SimStudio all the best .

All I can say is go star our GitHub repo :D

@jerryjliu0 I was intrigued by the topic, went to the ParseBench GitHub, searched the docs , linked to the website and then downloaded the paper. All from a single tweet 🐣 . Quite amazing considering I live half away across the world 🌍

A downside with using VLMs to parse PDFs is guaranteeing that the output text is *correct* and output in the correct reading order. 1️⃣ Text correctness: making sure that digits, words, sentences are not hallucinated or dropped. 2️⃣ Reading Order: making sure that complex multi-layout pages are linearized into the right 1-d text order. We call this Content Faithfulness in ParseBench, our comprehensive document OCR benchmark for agents. We have 167k rules that measure digit/word/sentence-level correctness along with reading order correctness. It seems relatively table-stakes, but no parser gets this 100% right, and this means that the agent’s downstream decision-making is compromised. Come learn more about how this metric works in the video below, along with our full blog writeup, whitepaper, and website! Blog: llamaindex.ai/blog/parsebenc… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08538… Website: parsebench.ai/?utm_medium=so…

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@gghamari Watch this video. Iran attacking Qatar has massive geopolitical consequences for Hamas. Hamas had asked Iran to stop attacking Gulf states on Saturday. 3 days later it blows up the Qatari largest LNG facility. youtu.be/PBPNHlx2t2w?si…

They're all taking the bait. Every single last one of them. Even the politicians. We're well beyond 4-D Chess. We're in 10-D Chess territory.

@TrumpDailyPosts @GinaSaysSo I saw this happen and I’m from Malaysia. You can actually see it from the logs that was available from the NYTimes election tracker, you have to click view page source and then read the .json files

This is a must read and @GinaSaysSo is a patriot and a must follow

@pilotshive @jfradioshow The benchmark should be 2021 because Gubernatorial elections are characterised by significantly lower turnout compared to general elections. D metros (Arlington - especially Alexandria, Richmond City) posted negative deltas. ). So while R is outperforming D is underperforming.

@RembauTimes @jfradioshow A lot of the data guys are using models from 2024 or 2021 or a combination... Who knows what really is happening... I expect polling misses but a large one is rare

Fredericks: If Trump Voters in SW VA turnout, Sears is VA Governor youtu.be/WWZKZN1Rc_A

@pilotshive @jfradioshow Vpap data over here, even visually it’s clear that R leaning areas are over performing vpap.org/visuals/visual…

@RembauTimes @jfradioshow Which data source are you using?

3. Target the most profitable segment. In this case working class men who had low propensity to vote or first time young voters were preferred over suburban mums. The reason is that suburban mums may have TDS and require a lot of time and effort to convert

@DataRepublican @andrw100 4 years ago I wrote a python script which extracted the timestamp of the vote totals and vote percentages for JB , DJT and a 3rd part from NYT. ( there was a JSON file ). I then compared the incremental changes in the candidate individual vote count after each update. #1

2020 was the odd year. The story of why we were seeing strange things in data unfolded slowly and in real time - and pretty much all of EV X came to arrive at the conclusion that low-propensity Democrats just ... vanished. I also suspect that after 2020, a lot of people just lost the fortitude to overcome any kind of friction. In short, many can't be bothered to put in the effort to stand in lines or even do the hard work of filling in a ballot and mailing it.

Will be writing a few postmortems on the election, etc... but wanted to give a bit of backstory this morning. I've always been fascinated with numbers. I can read them like people read words. It took me decades to figure out that most people see only gibberish when they look at numbers, and mine is not a common ability. Temple Grandin said in one of her books - she isn't some sort of genius; she just "saw" things from cows' perspective. It's the same way with me. I don't feel like a genius. I look at a numbers dump, such as Clark County mail reports, and it just jumps out at me something's fundamentally changed. That comes with a corresponding flaw - that I can't interpret or utilize subjective language very well. For example, I struggle when people ask "is Trump doing well?" because "doing well" is something that isn't quantifiable. I also lack the ability to goal-seek and deduce what conclusions/bullet points people are wanting to draw from posts. "Just tell me what it means!" was a frequent feedback - but I was left wondering, "but I already did?" But to me, the numbers are the conclusion. And when I read other peoples' more conventional analyses, I feel similarly lost in the weeds not understanding where the numbers come in the equation. It's an impedance mismatch. To make it all worse - I have expressive dysphasia. It doesn't only affect my ability to be fluent verbally, it also manifests itself in writing as many have noticed - mixed up language, incorrect phrases, inability to maintain consistent grammatical structure, and so forth. And yes, having unusual vocabulary is part of it! I can usually keep it somoewhat in check intellectually when writing, but I've written (and deleted) a few complete gibberish posts when extra tired - the numbers in them were good, the writing wasn't. I guess the point of this is - it's been truly humbling that so many people pushed over that big communication barrier, and worked hard to see what I was trying to express, and valued what I've said. I've never experienced that. Ever. And along the way - met so many genuinely good and helpful people. In no particular order - @requestanappeal , @realJeremyCarl , @charliekirk11 , @EaglesTTT , @earlyvotedata , @athein1 , @CATSFORTRUMP99 , @TonerousHyus , @ChristianHeiens , @watilo and countless others I know I'm forgetting.

@BBCHARDtalk It was so awful, so full of hubris and a second comment is required .the interviewer engaged in gaslighting, Greenpeace would prefer the developing world live in caves and trees. Worst of all, this network cannot even pay for its own bills and relies on the UK taxpayer.

“We have the lowest rate of deforestation in the world… Guyana will still be net zero” President Irfaan Ali says Guyana won’t take lectures on climate change as it exploits its huge offshore oil and gas reserves 📻 bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

@trulyjoshua7 Really appreciated your content on UML notation as found on Medium @joshuaudayagiri/uml-activity-diagram-36aea144793b" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@joshuaudayagi…

The 8 cores of gamification Core drive 1: Epic Meaning & Calling Core Drive 2: Development & Accomplishment Core drive 3: Empowerment of Creativity & Feedback Core Drive 4: Ownership & Posession Core Drive 5: Social Influence & Relatedness Core Drive 6: Scarcity & Impatience

@thomasfindlay94 @vite_js Just bought The Road to Enterprise book and am going through it. It’s really good and I’m quite happy ( Didn’t know you were a follower of the Lord. Now that I do know, the decision must have been providential)

It's good to see that more and more frameworks pick @vite_js

@JamesFranklynS1 @agent_00wo Agent, you can start laughing now. Bear hunting 🐻 season just opened

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Thanks @JamesFranklynS1 for sharing this I'm going to laugh so hard if the announcement today (Sunday) is "the pivot" as I note "prevent more fallout" in the news headline Intentionally dump on 3/9 knowing come Monday pump it to trap the bears yet again. 😂👍

@agent_00wo @JamesFranklynS1 Short of a Fed cut of several hundred basis points or a full backstop of all deposits, regional banks are in trouble. This can go very bad very quickly as regionals can’t pay for marginal funding cost of 5%.

@RembauTimes @JamesFranklynS1 Sunday Futures tonight will certainly end all speculation, so let's see how this goes

@agent_00wo @JamesFranklynS1 FRB is most likely next if this continues. It’s funding mix has moved to relying more on 3 month CDs and brokered deposits. Marginal cost of new funds will most likely be 5%, it can’t afford that as its assets don’t yield as much. Ally is another case as well.

@TylerWilson119 Do remember in end 2021, the Fed said that inflation was transitory. Only a brave person would stand up in an Asset Liability Committee (ALCO) and say we should ignore the Fed and keep things short dated.

ALL of which we discussed on the youtube channel for over a year... Now #SVB has a shit ton of 10yr bonds priced @ 1.6% while anyone on the street can buy them @ 5%... They either sell for the loss "because they have to wait for maturity" or yea... Great read for a deep dive. barrons.com/articles/svb-s…

The #SVB issue is pretty interesting, honestly one of the top worst investing moves I have seen in a LONG LONG time. Lets break it down... 🧵

@FluentInFinance The point to stress is that taking in demand deposits and then investing in 10 yr bonds creates a huge cash flow GAP mismatch. A risk management framework will usually have limits in place to alert the board to such scenarios.

How does the 16th largest bank in America collapse in 48 hours? Can this happen to your bank too? I've worked in Banking for 10 years so let me explain WHY the Silicon Valley Bank failure happened, and how it impacts YOU: