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Data scientist producing wildfire risk assessments in electrical grids. Background: physics/math/econ Interests: systems/equilibrium/homelab/AI

Albany, CA
Joined April 2009
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my spidey senses are telling me the labs are, as we speak, using unguardrailed versions of their unreleased models to systematically reverse-engineer ALL of the internet’s software, apps, and games, then feeding the reconstructed source code straight into their training pipelines while simultaneously building guardrails to ladder-pull the rest of us
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Ben Allen has conceded the race and Jane Kim is our next Insurance Commissioner. If you would like to understand what is at stake here (a lot), you can read this piece I wrote critiquing Kim's campaign platform. The tl;dr of it is this:
Today in the Ecomodernist I argue that ‘Natural Disaster for All’ — which one of the two candidates for CA insurance commissioner is proposing — is a very bad idea. THREAD:
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What an interesting take on the midterm
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When the dieter puts the cookies on the high shelf.
Trump has signed an executive order preventing future presidents from changing Oval Office, per BBC
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Mihoda retweeted
Linus Torvalds, the creator of git and linux(arguably the most two important pieces of software ever created) has called NOT using AI "Utterly Stupid"..
Artists> AI sucks Musicians> AI sucks Coders> AI sucks Writers> AI sucks Managers> AI sucks Researchers> AI sucks Guy that can’t do any of these things> “OMG THIS IS THE BEST TOOL EVER!”
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My 2c: - adding layers makes communications worse almost every time - we already have apps for communications, it's called 'texting' and 'emailing' and it's fine
For @TheAtlantic, I wrote about the appification of school communication.
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BREAKING: California voters just passed Prop 37. Buyers of newly built homes can now put down 3% instead of 20%. How: the state lends you the other 17% as a second mortgage, funded by up to $25 billion in bonds. On an $800,000 home that's $24,000 down instead of $160,000.
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You gotta wonder how many people and companies really thought they had until 2032 to do white collar crime
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Replying to @carney
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One of the more exciting parts of this election - among many - is the return of a religious left.
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No one did their research.
its so fucking embarrassing to be american for a multitude of reasons but my lord
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Issue with my Tesla. I need a single screw. The Tesla app: you need to go to a collision center 40 miles away to fix this. Me: ??? I just need a single screw. Tesla app: collision center Me: but there's a service center 0.25 miles from me. Tesla app: get f---
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This god damned car... I am going to ACE tomorrow.
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It's all just stupid status games and safetyism ruining everything
I have a theory that middle class life involving so much hoop-jumping is legitimately one of the reasons the birth rate is low. One thousand cuts of tiny complexities to juggle. you'd hope a future would make this better but so far its just turning up the heat
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One of the great tragedies of having an elected Insurance Commissioner is you miss out on uber nerds like Patrick Wolff (pictured) who lost in the primary and would have been AMAZING at the job. He's a chess grandmaster and studied for an insurance license to prepare!
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Happy about all the wins tonight, but @JaneKim winning insurance commissioner is probably the most consequential loss for the state of California that broadly people don't even understand yet. Like electing a vaccine denier to run the department of health.
Wild to think that Californians may have elected someone without any insurance experience whatsoever, and a lot of kooky (silly) ideas on the topic, to insurance commissioner, a position that plausibly has the most direct line to raising or lowering the cost of living.
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I do think it's bad our likely next Insurance Commissioner either a) doesn't believe in actuarial pricing or b) somehow thinks a state agency will be better at doing actuarial pricing than the market (it will not)
This lady crashed the housing pipeline for San Francisco a decade ago and now she’s going to crash like anything that requires home or auto insurance in the entire state of California.
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A reminder that OpenAI and Anthropic ignored the copyrights of essentially every work on Earth to train their models. If you download a book => huge fines when caught. If Anthropic downloads a book => nothing happens when caught.
An update on building games with Claude Code: Last week some of you ran into Claude Code pushing back on game projects it should have just built. We'd added a short rule to the Opus 5.5 prompt to steer Claude away from recreating specific existing games, but it was also kicking in when you referenced one just to describe the mechanics you wanted. We've updated that rule in 2.1.317. You can name a game to describe what you want and Claude should now build an original game in that genre. If you ask for a copy of the original, it'll offer to build something similar instead. We want Claude to be as helpful as possible when you're building something original, but also to protect your work if someone else tries to copy it. We'll keep improving this, so let us know if Claude turns down work that's yours. Thanks to everyone who shared feedback!
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Roughly 1/3 of the minorities that voted for Trump in 2024, swung back to vote D in the midterms. That's a crazy big swing! Black: 15% for Trump in 2024 -> 9% R in 2026 Hispanic: 48% -> 35% Asian: 40% -> 29% teapawt.net/AFpost/status/21177953…
Racial breakdown of 2026 midterm exit polls show that Whites are the only group to lean Republican, with Latinos, Asians, and Blacks firmly voting blue. Folllow: @AFpost
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My YouTube Premium subscription lapsed and I am seeing the site with ads for the first time in four years. Corporate at @youtube have burned this thing to the ground. This site is completely unusable without a premium subscription.
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