a thing I miss about Vermont is the lack of billboards
value plus discounted
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impersonal account he/him
existence of Foyle's War implies existence of Foyle's Overseas Contingency Operations
sounds reasonable but idk about those p values
NBER@nber.org · 18h agoFoundational expertise may be a prerequisite for extracting durable skill from AI-assisted practice, from David Autor, Tanya Rodchenko, Josh Martin, Zanna Iscenko, Scott Strand, David Pearl, and Melissa Ferere www.nber.org/papers/w35720
it's bad practice to invoke p-zombies in analytical contexts. use e-zombies instead
the existence of mutemaxxing implies the existence of repostmaxxing.
actually ratatouille was the name of the dish, you are thinking of ratatouille’s monster
astra seems to be a much less annoying writer than fable
i think i'm finally "getting" the supply chain risk argument
Distilled supply chain risks
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in financial contexts, you typically do the internal audit to ensure you can pass an external audit. this system works because you can reasonably expect an external audit to happen.
Worth emphasizing the specific methods here. All the other analyses are based on publicly available data that anyone can check. FGA is using Secret Data and Secret Methods and Secret Variable Definitions.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d agoI missed this when it came out in August, but the Post editorial board is now just a mouthpiece for fact-free claims by the Trump administration now. This is just demonstrably wrong. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
@akhilrao.bsky.social has been blocked 176 times, going back to Jan 30, 2025 — cumulative chart: blockcurve.bisks.net/s/akhilrao.b... fuckin amateur hour over here
blockcurve: @akhilrao.bsky.social has been blocked 182 times
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dixit-stiglitz rotators undefeated, ott cels totally cesmogged
Paul Ford@ftrain.bsky.social · 2d agoEveryone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they can!) then why aren’t we seeing any great software? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...
openai model knowers: what's your favorite sub-astra model and why? i don't have the budget to be using astra all the time, but luna is kinda annoying me lately and i'm just not as familiar with openai's stuff
anthropic is a machine for convincing people they have log utility
i saw the best econs of my generation blacklisted for knowing ball
existence of statue of liberty implies existence of statues of equality and fraternity
different navier stokes for different navier folks
existence of social contagion implies existence of antisocial contagion
"being represented only by your accessible data for all eternity" doesn't sound so bad tbh. i'll be dead, what do i care? sucks for the folks still following but i can't imagine many would want to keep following for too long unless there was some comedic value. WTP for a more complete simulacra: $0
late to this one but I really like how Tim uses simple estimates and writes clearly tmfassociates.com/blog/2026/08...
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the second thing we have done with every non-porn-relevant technology is make them porn-relevant
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · last wk.also, given that the ~first thing we as a species have done with every porn-relevant technology in recorded history is use it to make better pornography, i would take the over on paleolithic pornography.