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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ nonfiction book ‘Between the World and Me’ has caused the Angry Video Game Nerd to become even angrier.

I will stop maintaining my Stata packages and focus on developing R and Python packages (w/ AI, ofc) in my spare time. Apologies 🙏. I feel there's no other way. Also, providing free labor to a company that charges for using multiple cores on my computer does not feel right.

Genuinely used to be one of those “this is a good starter anime” people but then I saw some post saying “Do you think Japanese people say stuff like ‘you should start with Family Guy before advancing to South Park’” and it changed my whole view.

🚨Replication alert🚨 I'm pleased to announce that my replication of Moretti (2021) is now accepted as a comment at AER. I find ten issues in the paper. My comment focuses on two major problems; in the appendix, I document eight (relatively) minor problems. 1/

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

A club in China that has beds 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Amazon’s AI coding assistant may have just pulled off the Son of Anton gag from Silicon Valley: “it’s possible that…the most efficient way to get rid of all the bugs, was to get rid of all the software.” Taking AWS down for hours (on multiple occasions). Unreal.

I don’t know what Jon Stewart said that is making people be like “motherfucker is dumb” but I will point out that when he had his apple show there was a funny episode where he asked Janet Yellen why workers didn’t control Walmart and Yellen was like “so in a capitalist system..”

Seems like there's some real risk that a Bitcoin crash of this scale will spillover into other markets and parts of the economy