@aston.bsky.social
Once the Venezuela oil tariffs go into effect, the China tariff rate will total 104%! Truly incredible.
03.04.2025 11:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0LLM thought experiment:
If in fact we're able to train a super-intelligent model from a corpus of average-to-above-average intelligence...
Should we therefore be able to train an average-to-above-average intelligent model from a corpus of below average intelligence?
Maritime semaphor flag Z (ZULU) indicating "I require a tug."
A map diagram showing the drift path of the cargo ship Mazarine as it passes Cornwall, England.
A close-up of part of the map, showing that the ship is off the coast of Penzance.
i am the very model of the powerless ship mazarine
i've drifted through the water in a way unlike a submarine
i'm floating off of england passing places most historical
i fly the flag "i need a tug" with colors semaphorical
As a consequence of Berkson's Paradox, at places like Harvard, we should expect the appearance of negative correlation between wealth and smarts in the room simply because the school selects from the top of the distribution in both categories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
02.07.2023 15:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nominative determinism strikes again.
29.05.2023 15:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The criticism was leveled publicly as early as 2011, but certainly was in the air well before that. $8B market cap on a "feature" is nothing to sniff at, but you should run that CAGR calc from late 2010 just to make sure...
22.05.2023 02:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Dropbox haters were wrong. Are you making the same point re: demos?
21.05.2023 20:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Every once in a while I remember a funny-sounding football player name, like D'Brickashaw Ferguson, and then I have to go back to the Key & Peele sketch to verify whether it's real or not.
20.05.2023 05:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This mf runs shit on here
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