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Looks like #Alaska is on it's way to passing #RankedChoiceVoting and joining #Maine! Congratulations ALASKA : ) @fairvote #ballot-measures" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">washingtonpost.com/elections/elec…

@skdh what do you make of the boldly titled "The TRUE Cause of Gravity in General Relativity" youtube.com/watch?v=DjwQsK…

@BenKrasnow can we get the applied science treatment of pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

@Allegheny_Co Missed opportunity to demonstrate ranked or approval voting. Womp womp.

Public voting is now open for Allegheny County's "I Voted" Sticker Design Contest. View the finalists and vote online at alleghenycounty.us/Government/Ele….

@hankgreen Hold On! Hold On! Hold On! Her Sister Was A Witch, Right? And What Was Her Sister? A Princess The Wicked Witch Of The East Bro! You're Gonna Look At Me And You're Gonna Tell Me That I'm Wrong? Am I Wrong? She Wore A Crown And She Came Down In A Bubble Doug! Grow Up Bro! Grow Up!

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@eClinicalWorks health portal is terrible. Seems like you gave up on it. Many things just don't work. Side bar is extremely broken. Notifications are obnoxious and only allow all-or-nothing. This is bad for 2004 let alone 2024. You NEED to hire a UX person. Please do better.

osspledge.com let's go 💃

@905wesa your app needs work. Especially the sharing functionality. First example:

@skdh photon "gas" sounds like an abuse of terminology/analogy. Is this just hyperbole for the sake of a headline? "Researchers create a one-dimensional gas out of light" uni-bonn.de/en/news/177-20…

It happened: youtu.be/oruA427cpTg?si… Nice! Thanks : )

@skdh potential material for explainer video? pubs.aip.org/aip/apr/articl…

I was just remembering an old wish: That part of #cpp's "ADL" feature had instead been solved by namespace template parameters. Then wondering... has @seanbax already put that in #circlelang? Why, yes. Yes, he has. github.com/seanbaxter/cir…

I guess between @BenKrasnow and @EmporiumThought this is probably a @EmporiumThought project, but I'd be happy if either of them demo'd this: theguardian.com/science/articl…

I finally started learning @rustlang and I think I'm in love

@RyanMcbeth You seem to occasionally spend some time with lovely ladies. If you used it judiciously it would be curious to see if we would know if it was real or not...

@catskul Maybe it could generate me with a girlfriend?

@RyanMcbeth can you weigh in on Google's pixel "reimagine" tool? theverge.com/2024/8/22/2422…

@KipEnyan @hankgreen Why though? Why criticize your allies more than your enemies? Consider that it's not just "right now" that momentum needs nurturing.

Can I say...try not to harsh on people for small infractions right now or even, like ever. Like absolutely, I am a big boy and am receptive and love to learn from criticism. But I think it's important to not the cooling effect of "I like your message but. you did it wrong." We need zero cooling rn.

@ylecun @robertskmiles can you weigh in here?

I've been making that point many times: 1. Intelligence is not a scalar quantity. The space of problems is gigantic and, for a given amount of computing resources, any intelligent system will only excel at a tiny subset of them. Any intelligent system has blind spots, hence vulnerabilities. 2. Intelligence does not imply an ability to dominate humans. It depends on *what* type of intelligence. 3. Intelligence does not imply a *desire* to dominate. Even *within* the human species, intelligent people rarely want to dominate others. If they did, Einstein and Feynman would have been rich and powerful. They were neither (also true of many of my scientist colleagues). In fact, Geoff points out that, until the election of Biden, the most powerful man in the world was not particularly smart (weakening his own argument). 4. Geoff mentions the fact that gaining power is an instrumental subgoal of achieving any goal. But it's easy to design guardrail objectives to prevent bad things from happening. We already do this all the time by making laws, including for superhuman entities such as corporations and governments.

@jjfahrenfort @WillEBunting @skdh @DanielHerber13 This is an indirect but nearly inevitable result of our voting system that drives this dynamic. The Netherlands, and all parliamentary systems have dramatically more favorable dynamics for > 2 parties, and coalition building.

For all I can tell, the US presidential election comes down to supporters of two groups insisting that the leader of the other group has dementia.

@hankgreen is my favorite: youtu.be/W92bjv8fNTI?si…

@seanbax Any chance of open sourcing your work any time soon? I can see why you might not want to, but I think it's what it would take to catch fire and really spread!

What timing. Hoping to demo my memory-safe C++ compiler next month. I'm excited. It's VERY satisfying to have relocation, pattern matching, first-class choice, tuple and array types and interfaces/customization points with a NLL borrow checker stopping all these infernal UB bugs.