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Hadn’t thought of this
Wolf Richter offers his usual hardass realism about the “debt ceiling” nonsense, illustrated by his usual hardass graph, a picture worth 20 trillion words. In discussing the impact of normal interest on taxes and federal debt, he brings up a point that I hadn’t thought of: On the other hand, fixed-income investors that buy those…
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Maybe we understand
Bhattacharya is trying to set up a “commission” to find facts which don’t need to be found and won’t have any effect when found. Before 2020 everyone knew how to deal with viruses, and everyone was already dealing with viruses competently. What happened in 2020 wasn’t a virus, it was a literal precise holocaust. A…
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Today is
Today is Learn about Compositing Day! Oh boy! Chases, quoins, imposing stones, ludlows, forms, slugs, pica poles, friskets, proofreading… Oh. After proofreading, today is Learn About Composting Day. Poop.
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Authorship?
Another day, another point-miss. = = = = = START QUOTE: It’s estimated that 500,000 to 1 million books are published each year, and that’s excluding self-published material. The publishing market has become saturated, with the average book selling less than 200 copies. But suppose one person could “generate” not just a few books in…
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Reprint from 2014
Suggested by the Fleischmann deltas in previous item. STYLES AND STACKS. Continuing yesterday’s discussion of potential differences in electronics and economics. Thinking again of these alternate ways to describe a system. You can start from two TYPES of force or source, two separate poles or centerpoints…. or you can treat local pieces of the system…
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Good prison
Reading the DailyMail account of Bryan federal prison where Holmes is starting her time. I’m impressed! Bryan is a GOOD PRISON, doing pretty much everything the right way. = = = = = START QUOTE: New inmates normally spend their first three months working in the kitchen, which is considered one of the most demanding…
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Thrown fights, talked books
When the Bud Light thing started, my first thought was corporate sabotage. A giant corporation, even in the ESG era, usually knows its customers and doesn’t make serious mistakes. As ESG is fading, many corporations have caught the turning wind and shifted out of woke gear. DeSantis’s flopped debut smells the same. He’s an experienced…
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True cybernetics
Reading about the Geniac ‘logic machine’ reminded me of an IBM machine that turned digital counts into an analog balance measurement. This was cybernetic in the true sense, directly modeling an analog neuron. Modern AI is strictly digital. WHEN ANALOG FERTILIZED DIGITAL IBM started with the purely digital and mostly mechanical Hollerith sorter. The sorter…
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Possible in 1956, not now
Janelle at AIWeirdness is having fun with ChatGPT’s supreme cognitive abilities. She played several games of tic-tac-toe. Chat confidently lost every one. I haven’t played the game in decades, and I’ve never been good at strategy, but even I can see the instant win for Chat’s human opponent in each case. There is no end…
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Barkott
Dog logic: I bark at the stranger walking by, and he stops being a threat. Therefore my barking drove him away. Human logic: I boycott the woke corporation and it stops being woke. Therefore my boycott drove the woke away. In fact the walker was going to continue walking past the property, and the woker…
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Edwards = Empathy
A newly uploaded issue of a Los Angeles radio mag at American Radio Library contains a feature on Frank Edwards, the archetype of GENUINE independence and empathy. = = = = = START QUOTE: Four or five hours a day, news analyst Frank Edwards is spending his time deliberately provoking conversations with total strangers. Sometimes…
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Neuralink vs Alidade
Elon’s Neuralink is the latest and nastiest step in our long departure from senses and reality. Elon wants to get directly into our brains with both transmit and receive so he can update our software in the same way he updates the Tesla. Maximum Github, maximum Room 101. Last year when I was showing the…
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Just like the old
Sam Altman, the evil godfather of OpenAI, has started another evil project which is brazenly dystopian on the surface. No doubt at all about the purpose. Now he’s pretending to be concerned that some “scammers” are hijacking his scam for unlicensed scams. BlockBeats, a Chinese news site, said in tweets posted earlier today that people…
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Aptronym alert
Via DailyMail: Four Las Vegas men have been accused of illicitly winning more than $200,000 in a ‘dice sliding’ scheme at a craps table on the Las Vegas strip. Antcharaporn Kamonlert, Hau Duc Ngo, Max Edward Rappoport, and Oscar Ovidio Rodriguez Alvarado are charged in the case, which stems from an alleged scam at The…
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