Friday, May 29, 2026

Exponential growth in demand is one of the sustaining assumptions of the AI bubble. This looks like something else

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Following up on our tokenmaxing post . Companies are starting to question whether soaring AI spending is delivering meaningful returns. An ...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

Apparently insider trading is now illegal

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  from ABC News :  A Google employee fraudulently made more than $1 million by using inside information to place Polymarket bets on what us...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Hello Goodbye

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I have some thoughts on the finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Actually, I have lots of thoughts, but I'm going to save the d...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Remember that company that everyone with a NASDAQ index fund is about to be forced to buy?

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The initial numbers are out and they aren't pretty.   Joe Wilkins writing for Futurism : Elon Musk has just pulled back the curtain on t...
Monday, May 25, 2026

Memorial Day Repost

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  A good day for a recommendation There is, of course, no such thing as the military perspective -- no single person can speak for all ...
Friday, May 22, 2026

Since ed reform mania died down, we haven't had much call to mention Goodhart's Law

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 From XKCD    
Thursday, May 21, 2026

Nancarrow and McLaren

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Tuesday's post about a late sixties technology that attempted to build a home theater revolution on something similar to super-8 film g...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

More irrational than the shoe company example but admittedly not as embarrassing

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  pretty depressing that there's basically nothing a company like Ford can do on the car business side of things to get a 25% stock bum...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

"Tomorrow's just a future yesterday." TV edition

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I love this sort of stuff.   A few points: 1. I was a huge fan of James Burke's Connections back in the day and his framing of technolog...
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...