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Nic Duquette
@nicduquette.bsky.social
Economist at USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Nonprofit economics, public economics, economic history. #EconSky Site: http://www.nicolasduquette.com
Jensen is probably the most Jobs-like CEO left in the industry, in that he has a completely monomaniacal focus on producing and selling more GPUs no matter what. Things which are not relevant to that goal, such as knowing where you live, are discarded to fit more GPU sales ideas in his brain.
Kandorkovich@dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 12h agoJensen Huang does seem like a big idiot in his recent interviews but he also seems like the least insane AI industry leader so it’s a mixed bag at the least
MOAR
Greg Spotts@spottnik.bsky.social · 12h ago📸 🎟️ 🚌 LA issued $172.6 million in parking fines in fiscal year 26-26 Cameras mounted on buses accounted for $42.8 million from 146,184 tickets. Cams have issued tickets on 28 streets Top 3 Corridors, share of tix issued: Wilshire: 42% La Brea: 21% Sixth: 13.% basin.la/articles/thr...
Hollywood has suffered the most in the AI era—with the movie & TV industry losing more than 100k jobs, nearly one-third of the sector’s total employment, over the last four years. Total employment in video production is approaching the fthe lowest levels in 30 years
Total private construction is about $1.6 TRILLION per year. Total data center construction is about $50 BILLION. So data centers are ~3% of all construction. There's no real crowding out here. Comparing total spending change from such RADICALLY different baserates tells us almost nothing.
Mike Eliason@holz-bau.bsky.social · 2d agochat is this good?
The purpose of distributive requirements in college (humanities or otherwise) cannot be an educated citizenry, because the majority of Americans do not finish a four-year degree. Arguing over how to do this in college means giving up on a complete education for the median American.
I've found a compromise to the neverending humanities/stem discourse: study economics, then they'll be able to read AND do math
Drew McKevitt@drewmckevitt.bsky.social · yesterdayThere are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not.
the actual core content of any such degree is I Hope You Like Matrices but I think people feel like it's all going to be Advanced Talking to ChatGPT and when these degrees really get underway it's going to be a structural challenge for the universities to manage this contradiction
🎵Without evil there could be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometiiiimes🎶
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 3d agoThis is actually hell, right?
Given the US hostility to Canada, I want to start reading more new Canadian fiction: Any recommendations for newish Canadian sci fi, fantasy, or historical fiction?
If you weren't there, I'm not sure I can explain how much John's post undersells A) just how hyped they wanted us to be about this amazing wonderproduct (for a long time called simply "It!") before telling us anything about it & B) the deafening silence of the collective reaction when we found out.
John @notheotherjohn.bsky.social · 3w agoA weird thing that really happened around the year 2000 was that mainstream news ran and pushed a story for MONTHS that there was a secret new invention that was going to be revolutionary and then it turned out it was the Segway
I'm not an AI doomer but I don't love that we're blowing through capital investment records on racks of rapidly depreciating GPUs
Adam@adamshap.bsky.social · 4d ago“The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet.”
“The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet.”
People typically want to start something new instead of contributing to the maintenance of something that already exists
Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com · 4d agoThe University of Oregon has received a $1-billion donation to start an engineering college. It’s a major investment in a new academic unit as other campuses weigh cuts, closures, and budget pressure. Get the latest campus-finance updates. https://chroni.cl/4hq3V5S
This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.
hahahahaha INCREDIBLE *CHINA IS HOLDING SENSITIVE F-35 PARTS DIVERTED TO HONG KONG *PENTAGON SAYS IT'S WORKING TO RETRIEVE STEALTHY JET PARTS *UPS FLIGHT WTH PARTS WAS HEADED TO US BEFORE BEING DIVERTED
Federal Bureau of Investigation used Oracle PeopleSoft
AmyAlexCA@amyalexca.bsky.social · 6d agoWhew: “The [ShinyHunters hackers] representative said the group used a zero day exploit in an Oracle product called PeopleSoft. From there, the group managed to access AWS GovCloud servers and downloaded data. The representative said the exfiltrated data totalled between two and three terabytes.” 🥶
On first glance it seems like this is new: the United States must stay in NATO if they want access to Greenland:
As this actually is in my bailiwick (private attorney on the Children and Family Law appellate and trial panels) I can say that it's extremely unlikely the kid will ever have to go back to the parents. But getting treatment for gender dysphoria is going to be more difficult based on recent caselaw.
Andrew Quemere@andrewqmr.bsky.social · last wk.A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
Death Dragging an Old Man to His Tomb, by Stefano della Bella, 1648
Today I learned there are only two known polyhedra in which each face shares an edge with every other face. One of them being the timeless beauty of the tetrahedron and the other one being whatever the heck this is
Vilgot Huhn@vilgothuhn.bsky.social · last wk.Meanwhile the Szilassi polyhedron looks Szilassic from every angle. One of lifes many enigmas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szilass...
These problems can be remarkably complex relative to what we think of as human intelligence; classic example being slime molds and recreating efficient transit maps. Obviously this is before we get to eusocial insects and the complex clockwork of their societies. Simple rules, emergent function.
Crucible (rotated), by Louis Silverstein, 1987, 📸 by Tim Warner
