_delirium

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$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM(newsletter.semianalysis.com)
78 points by _delirium 1mo ago|40 comments
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Open and Shut(argmin.net)
3 points by _delirium 2mo ago|0 comments
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by _delirium 3mo ago
I find it kind of funny that the last time a partial member list leaked (a few years ago) it was because they tried to invite Andrew Gelman and he mocked it on his blog: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/02&#x
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by _delirium 4mo ago
Any of the direct indexing providers will let you blacklist individual stocks from the index. The intended use is to exclude stocks you hold elsewhere (or receive as stock grants) to avoid causing wash sales, but it can also be easily used
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by _delirium 4mo ago
The article does discuss union collective bargaining agreements and labor cost structure in several sections. > Labor costs might seem variable, but they’re actually not: pilot, flight attendant, and mechanic compensation in the United S
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Why is everyone's robot folding clothes?(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by _delirium 5mo ago|0 comments
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by _delirium 5mo ago
Hard to square that with how good open-weights models are getting? I'm doing stuff with Qwen3.5-4b that required a frontier hosted model less than a year ago.
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by _delirium 6mo ago
It's not just an inner city issue. Rural areas in the U.S. are bad too! Parts of the rural south and rural midwest have homicide rates that are completely off the charts for a first-world country (Holmes County, MS; Scioto County, OH;
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by _delirium 6mo ago
The key part to me: > Congress wrote to the Secretary of Defense about the extent of AI use in the strikes. The New Yorker asked whether Claude could be trusted to obey orders in combat, whether it might resort to blackmail as a self-pre
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Kill Chain(artificialbureaucracy.substack.com)
21 points by _delirium 6mo ago|4 comments
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by _delirium 6mo ago
Thank you for the link! Now that is the article I wanted on this topic.
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by _delirium 6mo ago
The article didn't answer my main question, which is how the economics work. How does it add up to have high-touch home delivery of $5 yogurt packages?
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by _delirium 7mo ago
Largely in-person gigs in the SF Bay Area, yeah. One reason the rents are up so much.
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by _delirium 7mo ago
Economy-wide productivity can be measured reasonably well, although there are a few different measures [1]. The big question I guess is whether AI will make a measurable impact there. Historically tech has had less impact than people though
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The allegations against a San Francisco social climber accused of sex crimes(sfstandard.com)
6 points by _delirium 7mo ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk's Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed(washingtonian.com)
9 points by _delirium 7mo ago|2 comments
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by _delirium 8mo ago
> those new self-checkout shopping carts I'm going to miss those. Two nice things about them compared to a normal self-checkout: 1) you see things ring up as you shop instead of at the end, which is nice in case of errors or unexpec
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AI and jobs: The decline started before ChatGPT(engineeringprompts.substack.com)
4 points by _delirium 8mo ago|1 comments
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Corporate Governance Authoritarianism(businesslawprofessors.com)
3 points by _delirium 8mo ago|0 comments
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by _delirium 8mo ago
Both sides here are $100B+ entities! But neither one is acting like it. The plaintiff is shitposting on Twitter, and the respondent is counter-shitposting on their blog (and also Twitter).
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by _delirium 9mo ago
There are many unresolved gray areas around what exactly the 4th amendment permits in the way of what United States v. Knotts called "dragnet-type law enforcement practices". Knotts suggested they might not be permitted, even
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by _delirium 9mo ago
> I've got more less tips than the Bible's got Psalms But there are (at least) 150 Psalms! You're going to need more less tips to match that.
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by _delirium 9mo ago
That's good to know, thanks. In my case nearly 100% of my code ends up public on GitHub, so I assume everyone's code models are training on it anyway. But would be worth considering if I had proprietary codebases.
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by _delirium 9mo ago
As a third option, I've found I can do a few hours a day on the $20/mo Google plan. I don't think Gemini is quite as good as Claude for my uses, but it's good enough and you get a lot of tokens for your $20. Make sure to
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The Returns to Government R&D: Evidence from U.S. Appropriations Shocks(dallasfed.org)
12 points by _delirium 11mo ago|0 comments
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by _delirium 11mo ago
The US is more like Latin America here, where top 25% does not mean you are immune to the problems of the other 75%. Your average resident of an affluent western European country does not come into daily contact with a poor resident of west
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by _delirium 11mo ago
Interesting to see Thiel putting forth Eliezer Yudkowsky as the possible antichrist. Hasn't Thiel himself given Yud/MIRI like $2 million?
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by _delirium 1y ago
I've found myself getting less interested in sports at all because of how pervasive sports betting has gotten. The announcers are always talking about odds and shilling gambling company sponsors, which is annoying and makes me not want
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by _delirium 1y ago
Inkjet printers that can do 11x17" are usually marketed under a "pro" or "business" line, but not necessarily expensive. Here's a $279 model: https://www.bestbuy.com/product/epson-workforce
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America Isn't Pivoting to Natural Gas(distilled.earth)
4 points by _delirium 1y ago|1 comments

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