Friday, April 14, 2023

Watching ChatGPT explain a reasoning problem is like watching someone who learned the language phonetically take an improv class

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When trying to keep your head above the hype and bullshit surrounding large language models, here's a handy trick. Ask yourself how many...
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Thursday, April 13, 2023

Thursday Tweets -- you can skip all the snarky stuff after the first tweet, but you have to watch this segment on the Tennessee legislature

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This has been building for years. WATCH: To better understand Democratic frustrations surrounding how business is conducted in Tennessee...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Twelve years ago at the blog -- {2,2,4,4,9,9}, {1,1,6,6,8,8}, {3,3,5,5,7,7}

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Warren Buffett had a set of non-transitive that he used to challenge people's intuitions about probability. He once challenged Bill Gate...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Canada's growth

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This is Joseph There is a long conversation right now on whether Canada is broken  or if Canada is not a serious country . I was talking abo...
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Monday, April 10, 2023

"I'm Dreaming of a White Easter"

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I went up to the Sierras this weekend and finally checked snowshoeing off my to-do list. It absolutely kicked my ass -- trudging through dee...
Friday, April 7, 2023

Thursday Tweets 2 -- If you're tired of the news, just skip to the end and watch the luckiest man alive

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Statement from Ron Desantis today on Trump’s arraignment: pic.twitter.com/p0fwFPMAJA — Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 4, 2023...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

Thursday Tweets part 1 -- Cheesy Wisconsin Goodness

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Much less of a close call for democracy than we're used to. In a state so evenly divided that a 1- or 2-point margin is landslide, W...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Technical difficulties

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Blogger's been playful today.  (Apparently the confirm button is now optional)

My apologies to Popehat (Ken White)

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This is Joseph. One thing that I often used to say was that Canada's limits on free speech showed how you could have a well organized co...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

2022 was a bad year for conventional wisdom [Trump/DeSantis edition]

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August, 2022   Hear Me Out: Trump Won’t Run Again by Jeremy Stahl writing for Slate. April, 2023   DC Insiders and GOPs Wake Up and Smell t...
Monday, April 3, 2023

A long shot you might want to keep an eye on

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I've never voted for a Hutchinson and I probably never will, but I've never underestimated one either. This is a good statement! ht...
Friday, March 31, 2023

"The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse"

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I've found Folding Ideas annoyingly inconsistent. Line Goes Up remains perhaps the definitive overview of the NFT mania, but most of h...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Thursday Tweets -- valid until “21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III.”

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What Does 'Throw Shade' Mean? - Merriam-Webster "Shade is a subtle, sneering expression of contempt for or disgust with someon...