henry
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With NITA, there is a huge opportunity to turn Soldier Field into a transit-oriented event center.
Modernizing the 18th St. Metra Station & building passtrough connections between it and Union/Ogilvie would be a massive economic win for the Chicago & Illinois, IMO.
It'd yield a direct connection from every major suburb not just to Soldier Field, but also to Millenium Park, the Museum campus, McCormick Place, the museum of Science & Industry, AND University of Chicago.
NITA could make bank marketing & selling Chicago Day Passes that offer unlimited access to Pace, Metra, and CTA to suburbanites and tourists.
And beyond ticket revenue, I expect we'd see compounding cost reductions in highway maintenance. Fewer car trips means less traffic (both locally and on highways), reduced asphalt wear, and fewer crashes to respond to.
From the Bears perspective, leaning harder into transit could reduce build costs (if you cut down parking requirements) and frees up more land for potential retail revenue.
IMO this is the only way a public-private partnership with the Bears has any shot of working out in the taxpayers' favor and I really wish it were getting talked about more.
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My statement on the Chicago Bears “statement.”
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This is such a no-brainer, especially now with NITA. It infuriates me that nobody in a position of power is talking about it.
henry@h14hdotcom
I'd pay for it by: 1. Modernizing 18th St Metra station & adding retail space to create rental income 2. Building direct, passthrough connections from the Metra Electric line (which serves Millenium Park, Museum Campus, Soldier Field, McCormick Place, AND the Museum of Science & Industry) to the Union & Ogilvie Metra lines and selling transit day passes that cover Pace, Metra & CTA We would raise SO much revenue if every major suburb could take a train straight to Chicago's biggest tourist traps. A single transit pass that lets folks access the entire network w/ zero planning or dicking around with ticket machines could be a huge marketing opportunity. This would also compound w/ lowered costs & improved efficiency of car infrastructure, along with massive public health benefits. Reducing total car trips means less highway AND local traffic, reduced damage to asphalt, and fewer crashes to respond to & injuries to treat.
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I'd pay for it by:
1. Modernizing 18th St Metra station & adding retail space to create rental income
2. Building direct, passthrough connections from the Metra Electric line (which serves Millenium Park, Museum Campus, Soldier Field, McCormick Place, AND the Museum of Science & Industry) to the Union & Ogilvie Metra lines
and selling transit day passes that cover Pace, Metra & CTA
We would raise SO much revenue if every major suburb could take a train straight to Chicago's biggest tourist traps. A single transit pass that lets folks access the entire network w/ zero planning or dicking around with ticket machines could be a huge marketing opportunity.
This would also compound w/ lowered costs & improved efficiency of car infrastructure, along with massive public health benefits. Reducing total car trips means less highway AND local traffic, reduced damage to asphalt, and fewer crashes to respond to & injuries to treat.
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Would you rather pay for a new Bears stadium by raising new property taxes on Chicagoans? Or through an existing hotel tax on visitors to the city? @CHGO_Bears
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Love this workflow 🚀
Using the Codex in-app browser + `npx serve-sim` is a huge unlock for building rich iOS apps quickly, and context-efficiently.
OpenAI Developers@OpenAIDevs
More of the iOS app loop, now inside Codex. The Build iOS Apps plugin lets Codex view and test your iOS app in the in-app browser, open SwiftUI previews, and hot reload edits without leaving Codex.
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My biggest hope for AI is that it leads to more niche software.
A big reason for tech monopolies, IMO, is economies of scale. When software development is expensive, it needs to run at massive scale and appeal to everyone.
Now that software is cheap, I hope this changes.
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@mikemcc1717 @CEmma670 Nobody is forcing you?
Loads of people would prefer slamming some beers on the Metra over driving if their train went straight to Soldier Field.
And if you're not one of them, then you'd get to benefit from fewer cars in traffic & more parking close the stadium.
Win-win.
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@h14hdotcom @CEmma670 Yes I want to bring all of my extra layers of clothes and tailgating supplies on the train. That would be so awesome.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson on the Soldier Field game day traffic: "Let me tell you how bad it is — Bears vs. Packers, I'm at the game, we're losing. I decide to leave to beat the traffic. Before I get out of the footprint, the Bears had come back to win."
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@ChicagosMayor @UnitedCenter Now do the parking lots surrounding Soldier Field.
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The 1901 Project will transform parking lots surrounding the @UnitedCenter into a vibrant district filled with housing, retail, and entertainment venues. I'm committed to equitable economic development because when we invest in our people, we strengthen our entire city.
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@Jozefowski @CEmma670 It'd force anyone taking a line other than the UP-NW to go downtown and transfer first. That wouldn't be the worst thing ever, but a more central station would be more efficient.
They can even save money on signage by renaming 18th. St to "Central Station" to match the pedway!
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@h14hdotcom @CEmma670 Arlington Heights has a better Metra right there
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@WilliamCrosson @CEmma670 To get a functioning regional rail network, I would open negotiations at replacing 50% of current lakefront asphalt with nature parks.
It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
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@h14hdotcom @CEmma670 Friends of the Park would litigate any required changes to the foot print for a generation.
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1. Leaving Bears/Packers early is unhinged
2. Fix traffic by making the trains better
Build connections from the 18th St Metra to the Union/Ogilvie lines & replace parking with food truck pavilion.
Eating hot dogs & drinking on the train >>> Leaving early & driving in traffic
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Brandon Johnson notes the ingress/egress of Soldier Field must be fixed. "Let me tell you how bad it is — Bears vs. Packers, I'm at the game, we're losing," he says. "I decide to leave to beat the traffic. Before I get out of the footprint, the Bears had come back to win."
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@Chicago_Goofies The way most smart cities do it is by making the bike lanes big enough to fit emergency vehicles.
Way easier for a cyclist to hop off their bike and step on the sidewalk than it is for a car stuck in traffic to move, well, anywhere.
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Serious question: What happens when an ambulance or fire truck can’t get through because the street has been narrowed down to a single lane for bike infrastructure?
Look at this mess.
Who thought this was a good idea?
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Using my unlimited access to Kimi K2.6 Turbo via Fireworks.ai's FirePass plan to run DeepSWE evals against different agent harnesses.
Early observations testing K2.6 in Pi
1. K2.6 Turbo on Fireworks is FAST -- average time per task improved from the 56 minutes @datacurve reports to 6 minutes w/ Mini-SWE-agent
2. The default Mini-SWE-agent uses FAR more tool calls than Pi -- 172/task compared to Pi's 74/task
3. Subsequently, Mini-SWE-agent uses far more input tokens than pi -- 15M/task compared to 6M.
4. The flip side is Mini-SWE-agent uses notably FEWER Output tokens than Pi -- 77K/Task vs. Pi's 128K/task
5. K2.6 under Pi seemed to be prone to reasoning-loops that led to much higher variability in token usage -- it used 60% fewer tokens per task on average, but only 35% in the worst-case
6. These differences in token usage result in K2.6 being roughly HALF as expensive under Pi compared to Mini-SWE-agent
Lastly, it looks like Pi performs slightly worse than mini-swe-agent -- got a lower score by about 3 points (but I'm going to be doing more runs to improve my sample size)
Excited to do further testing to see how tweaking Pi's system prompt and adding installed packages impact results!
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@josevalim IMO we need a "State Message" protocol for appending dynamic, stateful data to context via hooks. Using tool calls and filling up context with stale results seems so blatantly inefficient.
Should be as simple as saying "append a state hook for fetching current Figma selection"
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MCP needs a way for servers to push prompt context to clients.
Today, if I select something in Figma, I have to perform a second action and tell the agent: "hey, I selected something in Figma". Could also be used for CI failures, exception pages, text highlighting, etc.
Yes, there are security concerns but these could use the same permission model as tool calls... but it may also be safer? With push, users can review the exact content being added to the prompt, while for tool calls you review only the inputs, not the output.
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Spending $350M on new lakefront freeway infra is a major cost to taxpayers, both up front, and in ongoing maintenance.
The only plan that even has a shot at working for Illinois taxpayers is one that turns Soldier field into a one-of-kind, transit-oriented NFL stadium.
If we #BuildTheTunnel (cc @StarLineChicago) and create direct Metra connections to soldier field from the North & West suburbs, we would create far more transportation capacity than any freeway project could dream of. And do so in a way that drives ridership & ticket revenue to Metra, and massively expands regional transit connectivity year-round.
It would also result in direct Metra connections from ORD to McCormick place, and from UChicago to Northwestern.
If your office wants to offer a real plan that makes Solider Field work for everyone, it starts and ends with public transit.
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Chicago has put forth the only plan where Illinois taxpayers would not be responsible for the development of a new Chicago Bears stadium.
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@Lithius72 @ThePrimeagen Oooh you have a fun road ahead! Light Bringer is probably my favorite in the RR series.
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@h14hdotcom @ThePrimeagen Just caught up in Locked Tomb and I am on Iron Gold for Red Rising. Great recs
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Looking for new fantasy book:
* I loved Wheel of time
* Liked mistborn
* Loved storm light archives book 1/2, liked 3/4, meh on 5. (Just turned Kalladin into a soyboy)
*Another kingdom enjoyed
What else should I read?
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Funny with all the announcements coming out of Computex that (by far) my favorite recent AI announcement came from @pewdiepie
pewdiepie-archdaemon.github.io/odysseus/
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