I appreciate you finding a way to so eloquently put your thoughts into words. For the longest time, I always felt like a terrible person or somehow socially or emotionally broken for being unable to respond to others…
I think the absolute best pitch for LLMs is a natural language interface to things like PDFs. The vision of being able to "talk to" a book or paper rather than having to scroll and scroll is compelling. The same…
This is often brought up and I'm fully willing to be shown that I'm out of touch, but where are people buying these supposed "expensive" eggs and groceries? I'll literally share my last grocery receipt (admittedly…
Predictions for 2024 - Trump/Scott P/VP ticket. - Biden/Trump election is about as close as 2020. Trying to avoid partisanship, but I predict a narrow Biden victory. - Biden loses Nevada, but keeps Arizona, Georgia,…
VR inevitably getting smaller and cheaper will give us the "hologram of person in the living room" sci-fi fantasy we've always dreamed of. It won't be a replacement, but similar to the way it's viewed in movies and TV…
This just isn't true, especially in areas where housing costs are the worst. I don't have a citation right now, but I'm pretty sure a city in Canada attempted this (Vancouver?) and the returns were paltry, because the…
As soon as I deleted the app from my phone and established a "can only view Twitter on my laptop" rule, I basically stopped using it.
I've been on a Twitter break the past two weeks and it's been pretty glorious all things considered. The only thing I really do miss - and will miss if the platform dies - is that ability to be connected to the thoughts…
The vast majority of COTUS has at least an undergrad, with more than a few having Ivy League credentials or JDs, making them more educated than 70% of the people in the country from some of the highest tier law schools…
The question I have - at what point do Instagram and Facebook converge such to the point that it's not even worth having them as separate apps anymore? At a certain point, I imagine Meta would like these apps to all…
That Gilens and Page study has been debunked time and time again by various followup studies. Overwhelmingly the American people get their way. If not that, just look at direct polls from sources like Gallup. Even…
I always have to adjust for this as an early-career engineer aspiring to start my own startup. It's insanely intimidating looking at companies with multi-million or billion-dollar valuations, but my definition of a…
That's been my biggest frustration as an engineer reading this - is people seeing "CHANGES TO TWITTER CODEBASE FROZEN!!!" as if it's part of some story of leftist anti-Elon engineers that would sabotage the codebase,…
What sort of complete moron would consider the 2008 bank bailout (what I assume you're referring to) as a crime? How is TARP and the repurchasing of toxic bank assets for the stabilization of the US/global financial…
It's been Greenwald's MO for a long time now. Take completely uncontroversial statement -> twist it using just the right amount of slippery slope or change/omit one key detail -> make it seem inflammatory and…
Exactly. If you believe corporations have too much power today, one of the best tools in your toolbox as a "check" on their power is unions and collective bargaining. It's about having a counterbalance on that see-saw.
> It's hard because "everybody is lying" might be one of the lies. See: the legitimacy that Russia would actually invade Ukraine. While there was definitely a lot of hype and "IT'S HAPPENING!!!" across various media and…
Even if the future of decentralized ledger cryptocurrency isn't bright, accelerating adoption of digital currencies is a good step forward. If that's all crypto ever accomplishes, I think it'll be a success. Some of…
This may just be my confirmation bias, but I started using Reddit in 2012 and that felt like the big heyday and the peak of the site. It had reached critical mass to be interesting, but the new UI design hadn't come yet…
Agreed. Life in general is sales. Job interview? Sales. First date? Sales. Sales is more than "Here's my product/service. Give me money". It's the art of getting someone to do what you want. I can only speak to American…
Mojang owned Minecraft, one of the best-selling video games of all time, even when it was in a "downtrend" because of Fortnite. Microsoft didn't just acquire Bethesda. They acquired the entirety of ZeniMax, so Elder…
I appreciate you finding a way to so eloquently put your thoughts into words. For the longest time, I always felt like a terrible person or somehow socially or emotionally broken for being unable to respond to others…
I think the absolute best pitch for LLMs is a natural language interface to things like PDFs. The vision of being able to "talk to" a book or paper rather than having to scroll and scroll is compelling. The same…
This is often brought up and I'm fully willing to be shown that I'm out of touch, but where are people buying these supposed "expensive" eggs and groceries? I'll literally share my last grocery receipt (admittedly…
Predictions for 2024 - Trump/Scott P/VP ticket. - Biden/Trump election is about as close as 2020. Trying to avoid partisanship, but I predict a narrow Biden victory. - Biden loses Nevada, but keeps Arizona, Georgia,…
VR inevitably getting smaller and cheaper will give us the "hologram of person in the living room" sci-fi fantasy we've always dreamed of. It won't be a replacement, but similar to the way it's viewed in movies and TV…
This just isn't true, especially in areas where housing costs are the worst. I don't have a citation right now, but I'm pretty sure a city in Canada attempted this (Vancouver?) and the returns were paltry, because the…
As soon as I deleted the app from my phone and established a "can only view Twitter on my laptop" rule, I basically stopped using it.
I've been on a Twitter break the past two weeks and it's been pretty glorious all things considered. The only thing I really do miss - and will miss if the platform dies - is that ability to be connected to the thoughts…
The vast majority of COTUS has at least an undergrad, with more than a few having Ivy League credentials or JDs, making them more educated than 70% of the people in the country from some of the highest tier law schools…
The question I have - at what point do Instagram and Facebook converge such to the point that it's not even worth having them as separate apps anymore? At a certain point, I imagine Meta would like these apps to all…
That Gilens and Page study has been debunked time and time again by various followup studies. Overwhelmingly the American people get their way. If not that, just look at direct polls from sources like Gallup. Even…
I always have to adjust for this as an early-career engineer aspiring to start my own startup. It's insanely intimidating looking at companies with multi-million or billion-dollar valuations, but my definition of a…
That's been my biggest frustration as an engineer reading this - is people seeing "CHANGES TO TWITTER CODEBASE FROZEN!!!" as if it's part of some story of leftist anti-Elon engineers that would sabotage the codebase,…
What sort of complete moron would consider the 2008 bank bailout (what I assume you're referring to) as a crime? How is TARP and the repurchasing of toxic bank assets for the stabilization of the US/global financial…
It's been Greenwald's MO for a long time now. Take completely uncontroversial statement -> twist it using just the right amount of slippery slope or change/omit one key detail -> make it seem inflammatory and…
Exactly. If you believe corporations have too much power today, one of the best tools in your toolbox as a "check" on their power is unions and collective bargaining. It's about having a counterbalance on that see-saw.
> It's hard because "everybody is lying" might be one of the lies. See: the legitimacy that Russia would actually invade Ukraine. While there was definitely a lot of hype and "IT'S HAPPENING!!!" across various media and…
Even if the future of decentralized ledger cryptocurrency isn't bright, accelerating adoption of digital currencies is a good step forward. If that's all crypto ever accomplishes, I think it'll be a success. Some of…
This may just be my confirmation bias, but I started using Reddit in 2012 and that felt like the big heyday and the peak of the site. It had reached critical mass to be interesting, but the new UI design hadn't come yet…
Agreed. Life in general is sales. Job interview? Sales. First date? Sales. Sales is more than "Here's my product/service. Give me money". It's the art of getting someone to do what you want. I can only speak to American…
Mojang owned Minecraft, one of the best-selling video games of all time, even when it was in a "downtrend" because of Fortnite. Microsoft didn't just acquire Bethesda. They acquired the entirety of ZeniMax, so Elder…