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Software engineer and linguist. Have worked in both tech and finance, in and outside the US.

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LLMs are a good way to navigate huge, and changing, apis.

18.01.2026 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The US already gets all the heavy oil it needs from Canada. Besides, prices are low and the world oil market is currently, if anything, oversupplied.

03.01.2026 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I believe it to be a question of being both tuned in and tuned out. I've been doing more tinkering which is distracting and, when my tinkering works, satisfying.

10.02.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The question here I believe is it true of temperatures? The average may be rising but the fluctuations around that average are becoming more extreme.

08.02.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought that it was basically as we transition metastable equilibriua, we experience greater volatility. What's known as global weirding.

08.02.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Linguistic pioneers?" Don't the writers mean invaders? I think that's how the non-Yamnaya considered them.

06.02.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice color composition there.

27.01.2025 04:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How about American Pyscho? Which, I confess, I made a point of never reading, but now here we are.

24.01.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

PO? I'd say MO. Modus operandus (or operandi).

24.01.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Upwards from the standpoint of Trump's crowd.

20.01.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Judging by past experience, Merrick will funk it yet again.

14.01.2025 03:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He's working hard to make sure as many people in his administration are craven loyalists. This isn't going to be 2017.

13.01.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is one of those cases where I don't hit the Like button.

12.01.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The irony is that this won't solve the serious issues China has with its domestic economy.

Best of worlds and worst of worlds.

26.12.2024 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Their app confused me until I understood that its main function was to advertise prices.

12.12.2024 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Quisling Party.

03.12.2024 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been wondering if this is a flanking maneuver on Putin.

03.12.2024 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rather than efficient, I might say desirable.

21.11.2024 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nicole Wallace's enunciation (lack of) sort of drives me nuts. Limited viewing ability.

19.11.2024 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Recency bias. Think it goes deeper than that.

19.11.2024 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I keep trying to find a quote I once heard attributed to an ancient Greek: trade is war by other means.

15.11.2024 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Il faut balayer ces cafards de nos frontières.

15.11.2024 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So you're counting the sum of capital goods + intermediate goods.

14.11.2024 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Would like to see references for "most goods the US imports are intermediates."

14.11.2024 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The real question is - how remote is this house?

13.11.2024 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Googled - I see several. What would you recommend?

Thanks.

10.11.2024 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's interesting though the role O&G drilling plays in enhanced geothermal such as Fervo.

28.08.2024 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Clerical fascism - Wikipedia

In a podcast the other day, someone claimed that a better term for Christian nationalism is clerical fascism:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerica...

26.08.2024 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, SpaceX ofc, however one wonders what an extra 6 months in space are going to do to what appear to be relatively old bodies.

26.08.2024 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

37? Let me see - that's more than one every two weeks. Sounds both exhausting - and dangerous.

Was he married at the time? Wikipedia - yes.

24.08.2024 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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