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> if you’re rich you don’t need to own a boat, you can spend more per day to rent if you want to use one. There's a bit by Bill Burr where he says something like "you don't want to…

I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic. In case it's the former, nobody in the corporate world is using Linux desktops. And let me know when your parents start using the…

> the average worker can do most of their tasks with 5% of the api costs using an open source model from China and achieve the same results. Are you also going to tell me that ever…

> I'm a researcher in the field and I definitely take AGI seriously > I just think LLMs are a dead end for AGI. I have no background in CS, so apologies if this is a naive question…

I don't have any shocking story, but I also was once made to participate in a day long group bonding exercise. one activity was for each member of our department to grade the overa…

The substance of what you wrote is interesting on its own, but I wanted to compliment you on your writing style. It was an enjoyable read.

Reminds me of the decimal point scene in Office Space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fGHaVn5rGo

1. I'd prefer to reveal letters ... each press of the hint button reveals the position of one random letter. 2. I don't have a preference. Very cool and well done.

you'll like this https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/due-to-a-clerical-error-...

> if you think that it's good to dilute the voice of people whose families have been here for a dozen generations by pretending that people who got here 15 minutes ago have the sam…

Explanation 1: You're lying / delusional about your success rate. Explanation 2: Your trading "theory" is sound, but your theory requires specific and rare conditions to be met bef…

Very cool. I'd like to explore it, but I'm getting a lot of "page unresponsive" and I can't tell if it's a back-end server being swamped, or if it's something else. My son just gra…

So ... how many people have you murdered in the name of advancing your goals?

I think plenty of people "listened." But what was his plan and how would you have proposed implementing it?

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This is beautiful. Not a modern Ferrari, but still beautiful. La Luce, however, is best viewed *al buio."

I'm sure everyone at Ferrari HQ dutifully applauded when this was revealed. You buy a Ferrari for the sex appeal. But you nailed it. It's the Ferrari Priuso.

Interesting! Handedness is probably not (often) captured in healthcare records, but I'm wondering if epidemiologists could mine insurance claims (or some other data rich resource) …

> Let Mississippi be Mississippi with Texas and Florida, let California find its own way with New York and Washington. These places aren't homogeneous in their political tastes. I …

> Because they are still trying to pull one over, to be cleverer, to be the 'good' one at whatever life is in their mind: A long fucking ladder covered in degrees and accolades and…

I have no recollection of the student's name. ~150 students in the class, so they were all a blur. This was also a few years before the web took hold, so I could not have "Google-s…

Unfortunately, I don't remember except that it seemed unjust to all the students who didn't cheat. She certainly wasn't penalized, but I don't remember if she was given credit for …

I was a grad student @ Princeton a handful of decades ago. I was a TA for a few classes and, given the honor code, we did not proctor the exams for undergrads. We just handed them …

it's my son. he's young, bright, but puts up defenses to protect his perceived vulnerabilities. I try to explain to him that exposing your vulnerabilities humanizes you... at least…

The points in # 2 are profound. I plan on sending this to someone who is dear to me. Maybe he will "listen" to it, too. Thank you.