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STOP QUOTING
GODDAMN IT, STOP QUOTING THE SAME TIRED DEAD PHILOSOPHERS AND WRITERS. IF YOU CLAIM TO BE A WRITER, WRITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAY IT IN YOUR OWN FUCKING WORDS OR SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, I’m pissed. All of these supposed writers are bitching about AI replacing them, while they’re nowhere near AI speed. They can be replaced by a…
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Even Spokane is learning?
For a long time I’ve been vainly hoping that the idiot Dems would start DOING SOMETHING FOR THE PEOPLE instead of screeching incoherent nonsense about “democracy” and “fascism”, two purely imaginary fake concepts. Now even the perpetually incompetent and nasty “city” “government” of Spokane is starting to figure it out. They’re pouring 7 million into…
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AI means Artificial Imagination
It’s not Intelligence. Big data has been Intelligent (in the logical sense) for 70 years and gets smarter every day. The LLMs have proven to do a poor job at Intelligence, which makes the rationalists feel superior. Wrong measurement! LLMs are excellent at imagining. Most of what they do is dreamlike, NOT intelligent. Perfect example…
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Random language note
Been using and enjoying the fresh food from Full Circle for two years. Some items are just the food itself, others are wrapped and labeled. The labels are always in English and French. Organic Cauliflower / Chou-fleur biologique Organic and biologic are equally silly. All food except salt** is organic, and biology is the study…
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Dr Human beats Dr Google
Last year a good doctor at Kaiser found the solution to my constipation. This year the same doctor found the solution to a much stranger problem. In mid-June after a series of unexpected big stresses pushed anxiety high (same as last year) a rash started to appear on my thighs. It was forming flakes that…
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Good oneliner
Spokane News is back in the entertainment biz after being too serious for a while. 1500 North Argonne, Assault Reported with one male who tried to flee from Deputies but obviously skipped Track during High School and didn’t make it far. Male in custody. One commenter saw the chase and said Deputy was quick af.…
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No investigating
Getting really tired of the constant insistence that we need media to “investigate” wrongdoing. Media never does real investigating, and even if it did, EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. What we need is SOLVING, not investigating. China doesn’t investigate, it solves. The New Deal didn’t investigate, it solved. The same applies to police work.…
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Persistence
It’s so damn good to see a politician who KEEPS doing the right thing. The vast majority are bad all the time. A few make a move toward the good, then give up when the billionaires push back. Carney started doing good and continues doing it, despite the constant threats and craziness from Trump, and…
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Vector fields
Vector fields are a math tool used in graphing and understanding sets of forces or complex patterns. Vector fields have proved useful with brain networks. Older forms of measurement were also vectorial, with complex measures like metes and bounds forming vector fields to measure farm fields. A vector is an arrow representing a movement and…
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Should have kept it
Interesting trivium in the latest Post Office podcast. When Morse made his first official trial, What hath God wrought, he was working for the Post Office. Makes sense. The PO was meant to supervise national communications infrastructure. It already supervised national roads, some navigable rivers, and some coastal waterways. Many Euro countries continued the setup,…
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More homeless arsonists
One major arsonist was caught two weeks ago. Another homeless arsonist was caught and jailed Saturday, a female who was working on the east side. She had all the makings for fires in her shoulder bag. Kindling, hair spray, matches. She was arrested last year for the same crime in the same place, but of…
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In one sentence
Seen on substack. Allegedly a Chinese saying. Extremely wise whether it is or not! Only kids argue over right and wrong. Adults see the nuance. One plays to win. The other plays to understand. How to deal with a psychopath. When your opponent changes all the rules all the time solely to WIN every single…
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Oddity
Just noticed an odd contradiction. The way we learn math in school is NOT the way math is really done in business. We learned each addition as a single process with a single answer. 3 + 4 = 7 Real math by mechanical processes, from the abacus to the Addiator to adding machines to cash…
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Good!
The agency that runs PBS and NPR is closing down. GOOD. PBS and NPR lost their public purpose 50 years ago. PBS switched from education to entertainment. NPR switched from unbiased to pure DNC. Government is supposed to serve ALL the people, not just the members of one party or one elite class. Education was…
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Direct dial
Via Verge: Reddit is trying to build a direct access search engine, making itself an alternative to Google. The management noticed that people search Reddit via Google when they want to find human discussion of a topic instead of AI or carefully filtered and edited content. I’ve done it often. You need to be aware…
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