Friday, September 29, 2023

Deferred Thursday Tweets -- as always, Dems in disarray

All you need to know about the GOP primary in just twenty seconds. You don't need to see any other clips or read any analyses. Just watch this.
  






Growing up in rural Arkansas, I remember my heart going out to those the subsistence truffle farmers.


Another good ad, and one that makes a point we've been hammering.





On Trump, Drudge > NYT







SROs would seem to be the simplest conversions and it would answer a burning need for low income housing, but I never hear those proposed.

 

A note to those who get all worked up about polls more that a year before the election:


And a reminder that, as good as he is with polling data, Nate Silver's track record as a political analyst is decidedly mixed.

(There is an extremely overrated politician from California, but his name isn't Harris.)


Today, Florida...


Tomorrow, the world.

Naomi Klein and Matt ("not Gatez") Gertz need to form a support group.



Untroubled by any hobgoblins of consistency.


Getting serious for a moment, this is an important issue.




The funniest part is that rather than ignore this, Fields waded into the replies under the impression that the details would help.


Big week for Elon.



From Forbes:
Potentially, it could cut carbon emissions by about 50% over a lifetime of use, assuming a buyer replaces a similarly sized gasoline truck, said Nick Molden, CEO and founder of Emissions Analytics, an independent automotive research firm based in the U.K. But if an owner uses it less frequently than the gasoline truck, “that would undermine the climate benefit because the manufacturing emissions to make a Cybertruck would be amortized over too few miles,” he said.
In other words, you could get a much safer appropriate-for-your-needs hybrid with the same carbon footprint, you'd save a ton of money, and you wouldn't look like a complete dick driving around town.




As we were saying twelve years ago.

Tech notes


Before they "fixed" it, the math reasoning section of the SATs relied heavily on rewriting problems with new notation so that students who hadn't had much math wouldn't be at a disadvantage. Similar principles should apply to tests for LLMs.


And misc.


You never know where you'll fidn a history nerd.



Not actually a mole, but I still love this clip.


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