@atwilliams.bsky.social
macroeconomist and computer user at http://www.common-wealth.org, editor at www.continuousvariation.com, fellow at stanford, partisan of the republic of letters, nonparametric parametrician
a tangentially related thing here that i find funny is the number of SV pricks who idolize "real work" (labor, industrial work, etc.) and are profoundly contemptuous of, like, "HR" or "DEI" or "training" or whatever, because they have no idea of how much the latter is involved in that kind of work
[dan bejar voice]
david protein lied to finance bros while we lied beneath the moon / the syllables against us both could keep all the world in tune
it is bad that they are removing the sanctions on russian oil
I struggle to communicate my fury about the easing of sanctions on Russia's oil as a result of the Iran war.
Unlike basically anything suggested as an objective in this fool war, containing Russia's ability to brutalize and dominate Eastern Europe *actually is* a vital US security interest.
They're gonna make him smoke the whole pack
Whether you're the moss covered forest horror, or the townsfolk running from the moss covered forest horror, I know you're doing your best, and that's all any of us can do right now.
Carry on.
eli was paying $250 during the messengering days for the room with the glass doors in parc ex ! that was less than ten years ago !
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i know its not the same thing but "Macrohard" ought to be what Bessent's strategy is memorialized as
posting "oh messy life" on loss functions dot tumblr dot com like its 2010 again
isnt it attention? theyre selling the application of attention operators
tired: consensus reality
wired: public ontology
we really should have a public ontology tho, even the BEA keeps their most granular ones private,
dems need to take a strong stance on public ontology in 2028
i think that it is plainly obvious that we should bankrupt Palantir on day one by cutting all of its contracts and declaring it a supply chain risk.
sagittarian-coded
"reality has got its hands on the fake news broadcast i was going to screen behind a noise set i was playing in 2015"
good advice for avoiding underdetermination problems at point of principle instantiation
our diamondhand traders vs their greased creeps
the 80s are back folks
using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him
Ice, Moon and Tanker
Christopher Pratt
2007
Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
the wrong side won the cambridge capital controversy, and yes exactly re: videogames.
at this point tho ive sort of given up on beating the skeuomorphism and am trying to figure out how to make the data more videogame with the least empirical stretching to like try
why would you want to hike into a negative supply shock
use of the gnomic aspect is sagittarian-coded
"oh, historically it's been the same in the church, in politics, wherever you look and can see a hierarchy"
[Frasier voce]
well okay fine, he is still a Theatrical Performer filmed making poor execution of a trope and i have Notes for him about it!
how many Mad Scientists are ever even actually doing science really...its a kind of poet!
he sneaks in under my bar because it is continental enough to consider sociology a science i think
the Mad Scientist is a noble and venerable trope, the other thing is always a mere institutional artifact