jmeister

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"I randomly picked 5 universities and looked up sociology department faculty."(drvinayprasad.com)
3 points by jmeister 26d ago|2 comments
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by jmeister 26d ago
“I randomly picked papers written by the faculty. Wow, my mind was blown. At least 60% was similar gibberish. Constant politically charged assertions— no underlying data. Anti-colonialism— everything is somehow a legacy of racial injustice
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Senior journalist claims to use AI for fact-checking(twitter.com)
4 points by jmeister 6mo ago|2 comments
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by jmeister 6mo ago
“ TL;DR: For a journalist, IMHO, think of your chatbot as a combination of an intern, a first-pass editor, and a fact-checker. It's job is to do grunt work and help you turn in cleaner copy”
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"Half the dads at this 7am swim practice have Codex or Claude Code fired up."(twitter.com)
9 points by jmeister 7mo ago|1 comments
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Kakistocracy: Why Populism Ends in Disaster(barnesandnoble.com)
3 points by jmeister 7mo ago|1 comments
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Larry Page has moved to Florida(twitter.com)
46 points by jmeister 7mo ago|89 comments
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by jmeister 9mo ago
Flock helped catch the Boston/Brown shooter.
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by jmeister 9mo ago
Cosma Shalizi has a great article on these themes, arrives at similar conclusions https://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiz...
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by jmeister 3y ago
You can’t have the former without the latter unfortunately. Freaks make the world go round. Nice guys merely shuffle after them.
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by jmeister 3y ago
You might find this interesting: Metaobject Protocols for Julia https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16759/pdf/OASI...
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by jmeister 3y ago
Community Notes?
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by jmeister 3y ago
This is too insignificant for a “take”. It doesn’t change anything substantial for me or most existing Twitter users.
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by jmeister 3y ago
>fireworks Usually this is too vacuous of a criterion for comments on any other topic on HN. For some reason any post on Twitter has pages and pages of “yikes” “derp”, people gossiping about “Elon” like he’s their wayward cousin. Patheti
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by jmeister 3y ago
Example? Who are these people forced to use Twitter?
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by jmeister 3y ago
Have you considered looking away?
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by jmeister 3y ago
Have you considered looking away?
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by jmeister 3y ago
>For example, if you’re looking at static inequality, Europe appears to be more egalitarian than the United States—their wealth is more evenly distributed across the population. But Taleb uses some statistics of dynamic inequality that p
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Nikola Snags $42M from California to Build Hydrogen Truck Stations(forbes.com)
3 points by jmeister 3y ago|0 comments
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by jmeister 3y ago
The problem is decline in elitism(in the arts, in politics, in the academy..) but nobody wants to hear that in these populist times. Democracy+markets are working extremely well for the masses, giving them exactly what they want. Ted Gioia
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by jmeister 3y ago
"On the startup bailout. It is claimed that the startups who put all their cash in SVB will now be forced to close, so get going with the bailout now. It is not startups who lose money, it is their venture capital investors, and it is
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by jmeister 3y ago
>Hilary Allen, a law professor at American University, thinks crypto is inherently susceptible to boom-and-boost cycles and manipulation by insiders, and thinks it should be banned. I don’t know or care much for crypto, but man does it b
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by jmeister 3y ago
Message from the PM: https://twitter.com/rishisunak/status/1668174629695832064
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Expanding to the UK(a16zcrypto.com)
2 points by jmeister 3y ago|1 comments
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by jmeister 3y ago
That’s the point I think: these west coast companies are moving/hiring elsewhere
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by jmeister 3y ago
>I now believe the future will be far more irresponsible and stupid than I once did. >I am increasingly worried that human success and failure are ruled by taste — the demand side, in economic terms. >If there are fewer beautiful a
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by jmeister 3y ago
Raises the question: what’s happening in the courts below?
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by jmeister 3y ago
> Admittedly, it does seem slightly ludicrous to forget about one’s immortal soul and instead busy oneself, as Faust does, with the project of reclaiming land from the sea. > We should acknowledge that there are many perils with the
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by jmeister 3y ago
From Dec ‘22: “Twitter should be easy to use, but no more relentless free advertising of competitors. No traditional publisher allows this and neither will Twitter.” https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/160458890482
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El Salvador bill to eliminate all taxes on technology innovations(twitter.com)
3 points by jmeister 3y ago|0 comments

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