Monday, May 18, 2026

AI growth and tokenmaxxing

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It is difficult to convey the abundance of warning signs suggesting that the AI boom of the mid-twenties is in fact an AI bubble. Note, I...
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Friday, May 15, 2026

Only slightly more absurd than some real-life cases

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A classic from XKCD
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Thursday, May 14, 2026

A great Charles Bronson story.

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This has nothing to do with any of the topics we focus on here at West Coast Stat Views. I have no good excuse for posting it other than, as...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

A tale told in tweets (Make sure to use the Muppet announcer voice when you read the word "space")

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  Are data centers in space a dream or AI’s next big thing? SpaceX, Blue Origin and tech firms see orbital server farms addressing Earth’s p...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

It's amazing the mileage I get out of some posts

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Weakliem and Gelman are talking about Trump's 2024 nomination, especially the role of the elites. I have some issues with the argument...
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Monday, May 11, 2026

We laughed at her at the time, but in the age of AI bubble circular financing, Peg Bundy feels like a true visionary.

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From Ed Zitron : Let me spell it out in a way that boosters can understand, in the style of Gillam Fitness : Anthropic not have money to pa...
Friday, May 8, 2026

ChatGPT still has trouble trouble with rise-over-run

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As mentioned before, I regularly use this tool to proofreading and to assist with coding and I find it very helpful, but I'm constantly ...
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Remembering the world before the hyperloop -- a continuing series

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From CNBC 2020/09/02 Opinion - Our New Future Op-ed: The hyperloop will revolutionize transportation in the post-coronavirus world Pu...
Thursday, May 7, 2026

The Organization Mad -- Parody as historical snapshot.

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I'd argue that looking at what people chose to mock often gives us a better take on contemporary attitudes than you get from standard ...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Meta, Microsoft, and other tech giants are losing billions on AI. Can Apple catch up?

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Steven Levy of Wired has been at this for a long time. In many ways, he might be the ultimate insider tech journalist. That means that even ...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Sixteen years ago at the blog: I'm not wasting time reading old paperbacks; I'm conducting serious research into Cold War political attitudes

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   Friday, May 7, 2010 Things I've learned -- 60s pulp edition One of the pleasures of popular art is the glimpse it provid...
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Monday, May 4, 2026

What we're talking about when we talk about the AI bubble

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  One. The AI stock bubble. Analogous to, but far larger than, the dot-com bubble. The main thesis here is that, regardless of the future e...
Friday, May 1, 2026

Generational fairness

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This is Joseph. One of the recent questions that we have had to deal as a society is the way that housing price appreciation has concentrate...
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Thursday, April 30, 2026

I apologize for calling AI a bubble. It is actually a bouncy house, and right now everybody's listening to the blowers.

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Last Monday, Allison Morrow wrote the following Buckle on up: Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta all report earnings on Wednesday — tha...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Anthropic's Mythos: One moderate step forward for white-hat hacking; one giant leap forward for journalists' credulity

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[I kid, of course. That particular shark was jumped ages ago.]  You should probably approach any story of large language models displaying i...