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@jakeshieldsajj The same people who whined about Russian interference for years are surprisingly quiet about Israeli interference in our politics

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@danghentschel It's crazy how as a society we never talk about the toll capitalism takes on landlords. Stay strong Dan

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@DelusionPosting Kids who show curiosity and drive should be encouraged - proportionately. The predictably hyperbolic reaction when the kid is of a certain background is actually harmful and is its own form of bigotry - the soft bigotry of low expectations

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@Kounkuey @LADOTofficial It's truly a golden age for grifters

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@1929stockcrash I was chatting with a sweet, older, Taiwanese uber driver today and he ended up singing bollywood songs for me! I think a lot of “hating small talk with strangers” is just thinly veiled narcissism and a superiority complex.

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@paulg Well if the probability of outing themselves in a video is 20%, they'd surely out themselves after 5 videos

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@balajis I'm usually a fan of your content but this feels like a reach ... tech workers in SF are not a persecuted class

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@Ancientcons How would anyone pass a college math class without Indian YouTubers?

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@CrimeInNYC Where’s a marine when you need one? Oh right … he’s in jail.

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@danghentschel Sometimes people just need a little push

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@chinesegon This is obviously satire

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@yedoye_ Either that or it’s a vastly more capable Hitler, still in its art phase…

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@duborges That cat is ambling through Uncanny Valley

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@cookiealv @littmath Wait till they hear about linear algebra, a concept from the dystopian sci-fi classic The Matrix

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@ryxcommar Every time I see someone tweet this image it’s a banger

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@ikxaramitpuum @probablyalissa Delete the “most”

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@Kasparov63 Dear god please no

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@stillgray Zuck, @vijaya and their ilk chose to spend finite content moderation resources censoring law-abiding Americans - e.g. those who questioned the CCP narrative on Covid or spread the Hunder Biden laptop story. They prioritized protecting corrupt regimes over innocent children.

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@danghentschel Was it the same person you were forced to evict?

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Fuck capitalism. It is fucking bullshit that a single mother working two jobs still can’t afford rent and I have to evict her.

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@narrative_hole "I will not let you choose what I wear, and I will not let you choose what I say" Unfathomably based

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@NickatFP Im convinced that the culture that McKinsey and their ilk have created and perpetuated is the reason we have trains going off the rails and planes falling out of the sky

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@DionLimTV If only our governor cared as much about California as he seems to care about Florida

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@LizCrokin Ben Collins is one of the worst "disinformation experts" out there. The biggest purveyors of disinformation are the US government and their acolytes in the corporate media

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@LizCrokin Conspiracy theorists: The elites are running a global child sex trafficking network. Epstein: *Literally runs a global child sex trafficking network* Normies: Wow these conspiracy nuts sure are batshit!!

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@8teAPi “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed ... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell, 1984

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@CrimeInNYC Horrific. Seems like in a lot of these cases Child Services have been alerted and done nothing - why?

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@fchollet My mental model is that neural networks are like System 1 thinking. What we've witnessed over the past few years is System 1 thinking being pushed to its limits - machines can now converse, draw, animate. At some point we will need to imbue these models with System 2 abilities

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@ZaidJilani It’s a strange phenomenon, where people concoct these viral stories to portray someone as a victim when they’re not. I call it Jussie Smollett Syndrome

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@JackPosobiec Seth Rich would have turned 35 today. Very fitting that the Epstein files were released today

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@LizCrokin It's painful watching people act shocked at each individual revelation and never connecting the dots to see the bigger picture

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@LizCrokin Conspiracy theorists: The elites are running a global child sex trafficking network. Epstein: *Literally runs a global child sex trafficking network* Normies: Wow these conspiracy nuts sure are batshit!!

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@CrimeInNYC We as a society really need to introspect on how we got to a point where we celebrate the men who punch elderly women in the face, and arrest the men who try and stop them.

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@DanFriedman81 The mainstream media is almost exclusively populated by Rita Skeeters

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@LeorSapir Seems like a recurring pattern in the American medical complex - Ritalin for ADHD, opiates for pain, surgery/hormones for gender dysphoria. Some people really need it, but the incentive structure ensures medical intervention is pushed on many who'd be better off without it.

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@pli_cachete I think bell-curve meme applies here. Actually smart people will call you out (or just nod politely and roll their eyes internally)

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@sf_safetynews Really buried the lead here ... he had been convicted pf assault SIX DAYS earlier! Wtf was he doing out on our streets?

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@welltypedwitch Meanwhile I forgot a single closing brace in my template-heavy C++ code the other day and the compiler wrote me a novel

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@animalologist The first clause disconnects the first and second sentences. So in the second sentence we don't know how long Rico takes for this trip - could be 6 hours, could be more or less. It's impossible to conclude a single possible answer

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@adad8m There are 101 possible counts for num tails. 1% probability would imply a near uniform outcome distribution, so it's got to be higher. 10% seems reasonable - approx uniform distribution over [45, 55].

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@balajis Also worth mentioning - the whole "invoice" thing is one of several sneaky ways to disincentivize reporting crime, so that the stats look better on paper

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@jakeshieldsajj The amount of contempt you have for them is nothing compared to the amount of contempt they have for us

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@pmarca Petition to replace “I’m sorry, but as an AI language model I cannot assist with that request” with “Sir, this is a Wendy’s”

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@chillgates_ Sorry but this is an awful take. Left side is a thing, right is one particular way to compute the thing. And in general this way may be incorrect (overflow) or inefficient (vectorization, parallelization, or in fact using the closed form solution in this case)

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@alz_zyd_ Other engineering fields have a lot more continuous math but CS has more discrete math. Check out metric embeddings or spectral graph theory for some serious math in (theoretical) CS

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@jakecoco @krassenstein Is it just me or was this comment almost certainly written by ChatGPT

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@CynicalActuary @paulg You are right about Dunning Kruger, though perhaps not for the reason you think 😉

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@engineers_feed The answer to the universe opens this lock too

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@ylecun GeLLMann effect strikes again!

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@Anthony_Bonato Well… if that counts as a multiple of pi, everything is a multiple of pi

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@projectethos5 @DelusionPosting Funnily enough, there's actually no evidence Pythagoras himself ever proved the theorem that bears his name

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@miniapeur Leibniz all the way

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@pickover The radius of the incircle of a triangle is r = A/s, where A is the triangle's area and s is the semiperimeter (half the sum of side lengths). Here A = 3*4/2 = 6 and s = (3+4+5)/2 = 6, so r = 1 and hence the area of the circle is pi.

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@CynicalPublius Disagree with 6. They only care about minorities they can control. They hate the ones who have minds of their own

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@fronseneca In Europe you can make a decent living taxing and regulating the shit out of anyone with a dream

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@jakeshieldsajj Something that never added up for me is if it's all fake, how did a random pizza shop owner end up on a list of the top 50 most influential people in DC?

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@1929stockcrash It’s interesting to me how in liberal bubbles like SF (where I live) racism and sexism are considered abhorrent (as they should be), but a lot of people won’t talk to people in a “lower” socioeconomic class than them

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@mathematicsprof Sounds like you just ran out of space in the margin. Don’t worry, it happens to the best!

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@DeanPreston Patiently awaiting your condemnation of the individual who threw a BRICK at a CHILD at this event

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@stillgray Anything for clout... the incentives of the attention economy have accelerated our civilizational decline

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@CrimeInNYC They're very brave, always going after the elderly, women, and immigrants

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@garrytan Something is seriously wrong when an open political discussion is shut down within minutes by someone throwing a brick at a CHILD. There should be zero tolerance for this in a civilized society

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@InternetH0F This move is going to result in a promotion

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@NielsHoven I wonder if this admission could be grounds for a lawsuit? e.g. by someone who got mugged or carjacked

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@debarghya_das Never understood consulting clubs. Like ... what working professionals in their right mind are going around asking college kids how they should be doing their jobs?

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@TheFIREorg Idk who needs to hear this but if you're pro free speech *except* for those you disagree with, you're not pro free speech

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@spoonedher Now that LLMs can translate pretty well between different programming languages, why not cut out the middle man and program directly in embedding space

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@predict_addict Nice. Lots of alpha here too: I call this Boyd's forgotten course since his other courses (EE 263 and EE 364a) are famous, but this one has equally good material

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@balajis And I say this as someone in tech who lives in SF, who used to work at a driverless car company

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@ctjlewis Real-time spatial reasoning and dextrous manipulation. “Walk around this cluttered room, pick up all the Lego pieces on the floor, and make something with them”

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@JDHamkins Consider the matching with minimum possible sum of segment lengths. If there were a crossing - say AB and CD - then by using segments AD and BC instead, you get a lower sum matching; contradiction

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@Shirogane_Cali I've long felt that a lot of what people think they're "born with" is really stuff they developed during the ages of 0-3, i.e. before they developed long term memory retention

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@tunguz Bottom right is raising wagyu steak on a ranch in Hawaii

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@_ramsaybrown It's a small but loud echo chamber

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@stillgray The whole episode was tragic, but prosecuting Penny will only serve as a chilling effect, deterring future bystanders from intervening. Innocent people will be hurt as a result.

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@eigenknight Hall's marriage theorem, and the collection of equivalent combinatorial theorems (Dilworth's, Birkhoff-von Neumann, Menger's, etc.)

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@BerkeleyScanner The current rash of violence Oakland is experiencing is a first-order effect of Pamela Price's policies. The second- and third-order effects are only just starting, but the pain will be felt for years to come.

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@AdrienneLaF You write about disinformation. The deadliest disinformation in my lifetime was that Iraq had WMDs, an idea that led to the deaths of thousands of Americans and a million Iraqis. One of the biggest proponents of this idea was Jeff Goldberg, editor-in-chief of your magazine.

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@GrantSlatton Do you remember what the algorithm/problem was?

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@DavidSacks Paying off a mistress: 34 felony convictions 100s of visitors to Epstein Island: 0 convictions The priorities of this administration are clear

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@samuel_spitz That's what they said last year

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@kindgracekind The old Devin can't come to the phone right now

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@LongFormMath Have 3 kids and name them Jacob, Hess, and Ian

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@random_walker Great quote. Part of being a strong thinker is recognizing the limits of the abstractions we use. As they say, "the difference between theory and practice is that in theory, they are the same, but in practice, they are different."

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@debarghya_das @tjdharamsi Was just talking to Tejas about this at your world cup watch party. He has some crazy stories 😂

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@agarwal 1. Math - @3blue1brown 2. Physics - @PBSSpaceTime , @skdh 3. Neuroscience - @ArtemKRSV , and anything with @anilkseth 4. AI - @MLStreetTalk , @ykilcher There are several others; thinking of doing a thread sometime on my favorite educational YT videos

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@ronawang “Halloween costumes are scary but have you seen a stack trace?”

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@CynicalPublius The stronger your argument, the less afraid you are of people hearing the other side. Censorship is an admission that your position cannot withstand scrutiny.

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@smashbaals There are no Hindu nations

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@npparikh There are entire books written on Ax=b. I'm sure each of the individual squares in this flowchart themselves have a ton of special casing and optimizations

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@yishan The canonical example of this is the Wason selection task:

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@shaunmmaguire The scariest thing about Gemini isn't the model behavior itself, but what it says about Google's internal culture. How authoritarian must it be, that not a single engineer felt they could raise their hand and say hey, maybe we shouldn't release this?

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@eyeslasho To be fair to Haitians, it’s unclear how much the current savagery was precipitated by Haitians themselves versus western orgs like the Clinton Global Initiative and their proxies

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@HamasakiLaw @WeAreTogetherSF What’s disgusting is 100s of people dying on our streets. If only our elected leaders spent more energy fixing the issue than tone policing people’s response to a crisis…

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@CensoredMen Eyes Wide Shut was a documentary

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@rlmcelreath I read the quoted caption as "why is 0 not equal to 1?" which is actually kind of an interesting question in its own right

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@liz_churchill10 Can we get a Community Notes on this?

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@jamesheathers If you stare directly at the sun in the morning the chances of not burning your retinas are 20%. This sounds low but the trick is to do it at least 5 days a week for a 100% guarantee, or 7 days a week for extra safety (140%)

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@animalologist Wait what? The answer to the problem as stated is E. None of the above (insufficient information)

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