Ash Navabi
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Not going to ask this guy at work what this one is about
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What is DJing. Is it just picking songs. Do you have to hold the headphones weird. Is it the headphones
Open Source Intel@Osint613
Additional footage of Marco Rubio DJing at a family wedding last night.
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@internetvin You gotta go to Maro’s maps.app.goo.gl/9u6iyZPHx49SYo…
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Hard to believe, but this is what Robarts Library looked like before the budget cuts
Cairo Smith@cairoasmith
There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.
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@BobMurphyEcon Not sure why it’s circulating again, but fyi this is a good (though non-Austrian) critique of the Cameron Murray study cited in the article: blog.michaelwiebe.com/p/hijack_review
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As promised, I am going to respond to the recent interest in arguments for rent control. But I just realized this article is from July 2025. Does anyone know why it's being passed around again?
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@mean_field_zane @VincentGeloso Literally what are you talking about? Where did Rothbard fabricate data? Where is Friedman commenting on this alleged data fabrication?
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@VincentGeloso He also literally fabricated data so much Milton Friedman wrote him off.
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@GarrettPetersen The post-game has you publishing more for another, tougher fight against the ETC to become Full Professor. Then you unlock the Politics skill tree in order to scheme your way to becoming Dean.
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@GarrettPetersen My idea for a JRPG is you as an assistant professor. Instead of learning spells, you’re learning Research Methods & amassing a conference/experiment Budget, enabling you to craft Papers to battle against Peer Review.
After 8 pubs, the final boss is the Elite Tenure Committee.
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Idea: a JRPG where you're a mage who learns lame/bizarre spells. So instead of a fireball, you learn a spell for heating up pancakes. But then you realize you can throw a pancake at an enemy and then heat it up to 1000 degrees to do a fire attack.
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@DesktopHero03 @Simberg_Space Imagine you’re quickly spinning a weight at the end of a rope. The weight is the earth, your hand is the sun. How much energy do you need to fling the weight away from you, versus how much do you need to fling it to hit your own hand?
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@Simberg_Space I’m a computer engineer not an aerospace engineer, can someone explain why a slingshot maneuver towards the center of the solar system is more energy intensive than one launching away from the center? I’m guessing it has something to do with centrifugal force?
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Most people don't understand that the Sun is the hardest place to get to in the Solar System.
Utterly Purple@DefiantlyFree
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@NToTheIzzo @freakyteezy_ “Queen West” as an area/neighbourhood typically refers to the strip of Queen between University and Bathurst. Ossington is west of that, in an area called “West Queen West”.
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Here come the geography majors. You know what I meant
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@freakyteezy_ "from Queen West to Ossington"
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@nikitabier The first ever mention of Nikita Boar btw x.com/boneGPT/status…
bone@boneGPT
@nikitabier nikita boar
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To celebrate reaching a million followers, my mentally ill friends had an actual boar delivered to the office today.
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@PMinervini Now you’re getting it. The important thing is understanding the underlying mechanism (which may be philosophically impossible), or how we deal with it legally (which will become necessary).
Getting worked up on an arbitrary label is a waste of time.
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Ash Navabi @ashnavabi
A lot of talk recently about ChatGPT and the "Turing Test". But I'd like to introduce the "Audubon Assessment": Imagine a world before the Wright Brothers built their first airplane. There was a lot of excitement during this time, with many advances in flight technology.
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Let me say this clearly: airplanes cannot fly.
Flying is an evolutionary mechanism that first insects and then dinosaurs used to avoid danger etc.
Valerio Capraro@ValerioCapraro
Let me say this clearly: LLMs cannot feel emotions. Emotions are evolutionary mechanisms. They push us to avoid danger or approach what is beneficial. We experience emotions because we are alive, and we want to stay alive. LLMs are not alive. Yes, emotional language may be encoded somewhere in the LLM. Yes, it may even be associated with some LLM output. But that is just a superficial property. There is nothing deeper behind it. For a very simple reason: LLMs do not have an intrinsic and inescapable drive to stay alive. This is what we call “motivation fault line” in our paper describing seven fault lines between human and artificial intelligence. * Paper in the first reply
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@jasminmiami @typesfast I miss the days when it distinguished between your camera roll and the rest of the photos you downloaded/saved.
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@typesfast How about fixing the photos app. Only got worse with time. Cant even do a proper search on it. It’s horrible
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@politicalmath AirTags and AirPods have been gigantic hardware successes in an era where people complain about a lack of physical innovation. How many other trillion-dollar CEOs have had this many successful product launches?
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Ash Navabi @ashnavabi
@PalmerLuckey A shortlist of Tim Cook’s successes at Apple: Major new products: -AirPods -Apple silicon -the Apple Watch -Apple+ -Apple card -AirTags -Vision Pro “Minor” improvements: -iPhone X facelift -iOS 6-26 -Mac OS 11-26 -Mac Pro redesign -Mac Neo He truly earned the title “Tim Apple.”
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Tim Cook's legacy will be that he took the most innovative company in the world and hit cruise-control for 15 years
Kalshi@Kalshi
BREAKING: Tim Cook to step down as Apple CEO
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at 26, i went on a date with a guy who listened to gregorian chants like it was house music.
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@bettyblooper_ @PalmerLuckey Ok. What about the other 11 things I mentioned?
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@ashnavabi @PalmerLuckey Vision Pro was not a success. It flopped! Palmer did a better job.
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