Joe @twitskeptic@qoto.org
Unprofessional data wrangler and Mastodon’s official fact checker. Older and crankier than you are.
Joined Nov 2022
@scott_bot Not surprised, especially after reading Timothy Egan's book about the Klan takeover of Indiana a hundred years ago.
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This was amazing to see.
The barn swallow parent (above) had apparently had it with its lazy fledgling (below), and literally dragged it from the nest and dropped it into the sky over the water. Fortunately, the nestling could indeed fly, and just hadn't wanted to.
@ct_bergstrom Is this legal for (some) human children? Asking for a friend.
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Wherever I look I can see news about a few very rich individuals being stranded on a submarine that was supposed to take them on a tour of the Titanic. The effort put in place to rescue them appears huge in scope.
Last week over six hundred people died in a #shripweck off the coasts of #Greece and nobody cared. Nobody even bothered to start a rescue operation until it was too late.
Stop pretending people are equal, I hate this hypocrisy.
@jeffjarvis Such a dumb Op-Ed given that it takes about a minute to find out that rural counties have a higher gun death rate than urban counties. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/map-gun-death-rates-lower-cities-than-rural-counties-rcna81462
@JenLucPiquant That's great. And remarkable that no one stopped.Or knew that Browne was playing a Leonard Cohen tune!
These kind of "look at these fools who don't understand investing" articles are a quick way for a business journalist to crank out a story, but for some reason the authors never mention the proximate cause: affinity bias.
Shot and chaser from a VC at Sequoia, one of Silicon Valley's oldest VC firms.
@DeanBaker13 Waiting for the Times to follow up on the stories they ran earlier this year about all those suburbanites who invested in egg laying chickens.
@melaniemitchell One of the big problems with OpenAI's "papers" is that they are unverifiable marketing white papers.
And love this footnote on the claim that it found vulnerabilities in code.
@ct_bergstrom He lost me with his summary of Von Neumann as a "computer scientist". Read (or skim) this tribute by Stanislaw Ulam if you want to know more about one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. https://web.archive.org/web/20210215095053/https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1958-64-03/S0002-9904-1958-10189-5/S0002-9904-1958-10189-5.pdf
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Also, why is every freaking tutorial, every set of instructions now in video form? What the hell happened to us.
@jeffjarvis Checking all the authoritarian boxes - nostalgia for an imaginary past, populism, an appeal for greater "order" and more religion and, of course, deference to raw political power.
Right out of "Strongmen", which I'm really enjoying.
@ct_bergstrom That's what you get for watching the Tucker Carlson video.
Kudos to the NY Times for running a live tracker on the wildfire smoke situation there when they didn't even mention the more pronounced wildfire induced air quality issue here in the Pacific Northwest last year.
I found this an interesting and telling analysis of OpenAI's Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever dog and pony show at Tel Aviv University yesterday. https://twitter.com/LuizaJarovsky/status/1665703042555998209?s=20
It turns out that the functionality of the human brain isn't solely determined by the connections of neurons, but also by the larger scale shape of the brain itself. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01774-8
Yet more proof of the fact that we don't really understand many things about how the brain really works.
Something to pass on to the next overconfident ai-superintelligence-is-going-to-destroy-the-world-soon bro in your neighborhood.
@rosanita @jeffjarvis Hadn't seen it, but I think I found it - was it this one? https://www.wired.com/story/runaway-ai-extinction-statement/
Unprofessional data wrangler and Mastodon’s official fact checker. Older and crankier than you are.
Joined Nov 2022
