Passion for design + tech, ending human trafficking, entrepreneurship in maj. world, ancient wisdom, playing w/ language & symbols, and spiritual life. #Clojure
Oakland, CA
Joined February 2010
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Complexity grows polynomially, not linearly with added pieces... xitter.cf/pawelbrodzinski/status…
Once more: A system is not the sum of its parts; it is the product of their interactions. ~Ackoff #lascot15
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This may revolutionize data science: we introduce TabPFN, a new tabular data classification method that takes 1 second & yields SOTA performance (better than hyperparameter-optimized gradient boosting in 1h). Current limits: up to 1k data points, 100 features, 10 classes. 🧵1/6
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Jon interviewed Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General, about why her state banned gender-affirming care for minors - ignoring the guidelines of major medical organizations and taking the decision out of parents’ hands. Watch the full interview on @AppleTVPlus
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“There’s No Way I’m Projecting Sentience Onto This A.I. Chatbot” Claims Species That Pair-Bonded With Wolves
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Fifth, NYT also uses the opportunity to link to Eric Adams defending the return to brutal, illegal, and ineffective “broken windows” policing. Incredibly, the NYT asserts as a fact that the goal of such policing was to “prevent more serious crime.”
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Third, let me note a few of the many bad things with these pieces. The lead article on the shooting today did not mention that U.S. is an outlier in the availability of guns, or poverty, or inequality, or lack of mental health care, or that NY just added more cops to subways.
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The biggest thing I remember from my macroeconomics course was that the ideal unemployment level was somewhere around 5%, because when it goes beneath 5% businesses have to compete over employees. We were supposed to take it as a given that this would be bad.
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"This P1 Bug Will Shock You!"
"These 12 Flaky End-to-End Tests Will Blow Your Mind"
"Which Slow SQL Query Are You? Take Our Quiz & Find Out"
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Not saying Mitch McConnell and his Republican terrorists friends, is robbing you out of your Social Security, but what do you think?
In hindsight this was one of the spectacularly bad takes of the last decade. “All we are saying / is give war a chance” 😞
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4. But the bottom-line was another story. There are 2 big costs: Big-box stores are expensive in terms of the public services they require, mainly police and road costs. And second, big-box stores cause the value of downtown and other commercial buildings to drop.
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After many years, I think that the real core of the argument for "AGI risk" (AGI ruin) is appreciating the power of intelligence enough to realize that getting superhuman intelligence wrong, ON THE FIRST TRY, will kill you ON THAT FIRST TRY, not let you learn and try again.
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Tanzanian micro-paleontologist, Joyce Singano, is the first African to win the prestigious Brady Medal Award. The award is the highest accolade given to micropaleontology scientists who have influenced the field immensely through excellent research and service to the community.
How this great yet unsung Tanzanian scientist became first African to win top science award. > bit.ly/2YlbF0U #F2FA #africa #panafrican #diaspora
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It makes them feel seen. I think there is something about having your hardship and suffering known by others – the sheer recognition of it – that alleviates, ever so slightly, the burden of carrying it alone.
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If I finish all of the physics a lesson or two before the end of term, I like to use those spare lessons to do something fun. For the last 12 years I have done a boys vs girls engineering challenge and the girls nearly always win. Here is why...
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I tried some Roam alternatives (Notion, Obsidian, TiddlyBlink), but none of them seem as attractive as @logseq
It has the features I love in roam (block refs, smooth UI, daily pages, etc), and more than that (locally stored, synced with github, better graphs and drawing & more)
