Landsheapes
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Landsheapes
@landsheapes
Personality | Psychometrics | Natural Language Processing | Programming 🐍®️
US Katılım Ağustos 2020
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POV: You're a 5'7" American from rural Idaho who is obese & severely autistic & you are at your Airbnb in Medellin, Columbia partying with these lovely Latinas who call you "papi"
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@AlecStapp Anyone that knows the actual underlying architecture of today's LLMs would not scoff at the hallucination argument. Hallucinating is integral to how go about generating text—it's just like breathing for humans.
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Mind-boggling to me that journalists at prestigious publications are still saying stuff like this
Merryn Somerset Webb@MerrynSW
What if the whole LLM thing is a false start? If the flaws are inherent systemic problems - if the compounding of hallucinations/errors can't be sorted out? If the capex build out is one of the biggest misallocations of capital ever? Then what? bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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@TwoRulesOfWar Very misleading. You're comparing just 4-stars to officers. During WWII, the US military had 2000 officers for 12.2 million troops. That is a ratio of roughly 1 general/flag officer every 6000 troops. The modern military has about 900 officers for 1.3 million active-duty troops.
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The point is that the WWII Army was 12.2 million men with 13 active four star general officers.
Today it is 1.2 million and 279 general officers.
It’s top heavy; which is a sign of the bad combination of administrative bloat and the Peter Principle.
Latex Salesman@EdChapm74701597
@TwoRulesOfWar Remind me again why the number of Generals is important. Why are we saying the ratio of Generals in WW II was optimal?
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@chriswithans You sound like a bootlicker for heath insurance companies.
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I’m a capitalist so I have no problem with people trying to make a million dollars a year off medicine or whatever
But
About half of medical spending is paid for by taxpayers via governments, federal and state.
Kaiser takes Medicare, Medicaid, and subsidized ACA patients. And is ostensibly a nonprofit.
Your patients and your hospitals can’t afford to pay doctors a million a year.
Nick Mark MD@nickmmark
This is insanely low for a cardiologist, especially without benefits and in LA.
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@GWallace61079 @Mythos_Noir @captive_dreamer Flights from China began 45 years ago. With the most liberal interpretation of "Birth Tourism" where anyone with a temp visa (students, workers, etc) has kid in the US, you might hit 1 mil over 60 years. Considering only tourist visas over the last 60, not even over 50k. Shitskin
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@landsheapes @Mythos_Noir @captive_dreamer Over 60 years of this shit. It’s absolutely in the millions you shitskin loving fаg
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Two Chinese citizens who don't speak a word of English fly to Hawaii, give birth to a child, fly back to China the next day and that child is now an "American."
Does anyone actually believe this?
It's absurd
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@MeghannMyers_ This is like saying, "Biomedical engineers, pharmacists, and Drug companies aren't involved in healthcare." Who determines how recruits get trained and educated? How they're selected into positions? How they're promoted? Etc.
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The Army chief of staff is not in the chain of command. Hope this helps.
Randa Slim@rmslim
“The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.” Cc @fordrs58
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@captive_dreamer Probably millions of cases like this, too. They'll go back to mainland china and use the kid's citizenship to open shell companies and all sorts of scammy behavior. This is their standard MO.
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@Geiger_Capital The US is in the New World you idiot. Brasil, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Jamaica, Argentina (the list goes one). All of these New World countries have birthright citizenship. Without it one could make the argument that pretty much any US citizen is not actually a citizen
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Justice Alito once again nails it…
If a Chinese or Iranian person enters our country illegally and has a child here, their child is automatically a citizen of that foreign nation, and is even required to fight for that nation.
How are they not "subject to" a foreign nation?
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@iaindunning Ahhh yes, page 4 is very illuminating:
"This report relied on significant support from the New York City Department of Transportation and McKinsey & Company."
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Everyone dunking on this McKinsey report is absolutely midwit or worse. Read this dsny.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/upl… and I guarantee you'll learn something.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Zohran is cancelling the NYC Department of Social Services' $9 million contract with McKinsey. Starting in 2022 under Eric Adams the City of New York paid McKinsey $1.6 million to research trash cans.
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@MaryBowdenMD @neoavatara This is called DEI @MaryBowdenMD. Americans MDs shouldn't be entitled to match because they are Americans. They should match because they are sound medical professionals and great doctors.
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@neoavatara Not true. This is from Texas. Many spots taken from competitive residency positions.
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Not a single American medical student didn't get a residency spot because of this.
Again, she is lying to you. Don't be stupid and fall for it.
Mary Talley Bowden MD@MaryBowdenMD
150 medical students from a single school in Pakistan just took residency spots from US medical students.
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@mtgreenee I hate how our elected officials don't have basic data literacy.
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It’s hard to have words for how wrong this is.
Americans Last every single time.
Mary Talley Bowden MD@MaryBowdenMD
1367 US medical students did not get a US residency spot. 6733 international, non-US medical students got a US residency spot.
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@MaryBowdenMD I love when healthcare professionals are xenophobic and mislead the public with data. IMGs match at half the rate US MDs and DO meanwhile they are often more qualified, and there's a shortage of doctors in the US.
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1367 US medical students did not get a US residency spot.
6733 international, non-US medical students got a US residency spot.
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@krichard121212 @workercommie If by IQ you mean General Intelligence (G), I'd agree. But I wouldn't say psychology invented it, it was always there, they just formalized it. Also I don't think it's misguided for psychology to research G, especially in a way that prevents people from misusing it.
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@CrazyFenaker @unusual_whales Even if you cut the whole federal workforce, you'd only save 4% to 5% of the federal budget. Federal employees are not where the money is.
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Federal employment has declined to its lowest level since 1966, per White House.
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@ratlpolicy Look up payroll the tax rates by income bracket and get back to us
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Narrator: It was, in fact, largely because of Social Security and Medicare.
daz@MetamateDaz
UNPOPULAR OPINION: America isn’t drowning in $36 trillion worth of debt because regular people have Social Security and Medicare. It’s because billionaires and corporations aren’t paying their fair share. End of discussion.
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@gak_pdx A tax on the wealthy would not be a one-time event. It would occur continually, and that increased tax revenue could be used to finance debt. It's a simple idea. You may question the strategy, but debt began to accrue in the 1970s ironically when tax rates began to plummet.
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Can someone do the maths for me and explain how a group with a total combined net worth of ~$7 Trillion (USA billionaires) are somehow going to plug a $36 Trillion hole?
daz@MetamateDaz
UNPOPULAR OPINION: America isn’t drowning in $36 trillion worth of debt because regular people have Social Security and Medicare. It’s because billionaires and corporations aren’t paying their fair share. End of discussion.
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@johnarnold I don't know you people spew these hypothetical claims without an ounce of supporting evidence. X has become a cesspool of unproductive opinions.
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Had Bernie been elected prez he would have enacted tariffs and we'd be in the opposite world of Ds defending them & Rs intensely opposed.
Had SCOTUS ruled differently and a Dem became prez in '29, that person would have fiddled around the edges but largely kept the tariffs.
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@LinkofSunshine @amorfat83496806 That interpretation is not what I (or the original authors) are getting from the data. It actually supports the opposite—higher incomes are more likely to engage in tax evasion. I've attached a screenshot, but I encourage you to review the original report: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/reven…
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@LinkofSunshine @amorfat83496806 That is not factual. Based on what evidence? High-income households are far more likely to knowingly evade taxes, and they have the means to do so.
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@mattyglesias Save your criticism for the billionaires more giving 24% of their wealth away.
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