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ChatGPT estimates for $300,000 I can build a 10x12 datacenter in my backyard with an operating breakeven at 29% utilization and 489 year capital payback. No thanks, not in my back …

The bay’s first LLM (large liquid model) was invented in the 1950s.

I agree with a caveat: the offending agency’s budget should be impacted rather than the general fund. The cost of lawsuits ideally would be itemized in the budget and publicized to…

c/o Jay Lund, Vice Director, Center for Watershed Engineering Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Tried to replicate the second result multiple times with Opus 4.7. No luck. Various prompts and it guesses ‘rationalist-community’ thinkers each time.

Yes, that’s exactly right. Maximal ‘individual liberty’ is my right to maximize my land’s value. My neighbors either agree to maximize theirs in a way that increases, or doesn’t hi…

This may or may not lead to a weaker Iran. From FP: “Iran is frequently portrayed as a political order bound tightly to individuals. Yet the architecture that emerged after 1979 wa…

/cocaine should talk at length about the amazing new code you’re going to write together until it burns through all its tokens

American government cash transfers overwhelmingly skew rural with the caveat that income maintenance is a smaller slice of the pie. This report illustrates rural cash transfers bea…

An analysis of the sustainability of AI financing by Cédric Durand, political economist at the University of Geneva.

As part of a research project, I combed through archives of my local paper from the 70s and 80s. As a practice exercise, I highly recommend you log in to your local library and try…

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Hagen Blix on AI as a wage depreciation strategy rather than a productivity tool.

Adam Tooze’s analysis of an era defining alliance of convenience