Christopher Berry

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The data pipeline is … familiarly tortured. Lots of good data coming over the next decade.

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The intuition for the hyperinflation was never explained (in Alberta). It was at best glossed (war was expensive) or, I Uni Econ it was presented as ~”trade unions got ahold of the money printers, enough said.”

It’s much clearer on this side of the book. Society was unstable, war injuries, widows..

This was a fun game. Then later variant for the SNES, with the mouse, was awesome. Right Clicking improved your battle odds by 1%.

The way 1919-1922 was explained to me: ~”It got messy, the old nobles killed a lot of people, tried a coup. They failed.”

What I now appreciate: in response to the coup, the proles refused to work, and shut.it.the.fuck.down.

Wow!

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“Yeaaaaaah!”

Aw well. gg

Quite impressed with how Canada played.

Everybody in Canada is watching.

Unifying regardless of the outcome.

Thrilled with Team Canada.

They’re working it.

So, maybe another 15 points of GDP from this push. And that’s hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, or maybe a multi-polar offset. Maybe. And that’s something.

Superintelligence? Hmmmm. The enlightenment is made of disagreeability. It doesn’t seem like we’re RL’ing that trait?

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When I squint, chunking the context window by specialization would be like human society, but faster!

And then, my inner social scientist screams that it’s all the catastrophes of collective intelligence but faster! And, maybe, sure, reason to be optimistic.

And reason for doubt.

If you grew up with James Burke, then the concept connections as essential to recombination and advancement is obvious.

The combinatorial space is just so massive right now. Multi-disciplinarianism was (intended?) to address the challenge, of the slowdown, in progress.

Now: swarms?

Nobody knows very much about where alpha comes from Statistics > Theory

“To generalise the point: knowing why a certain quantitative investing strategy works, psychologically or economically, doesn’t seem to do investors any good at all.”

Gift article 🎁

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Test suites.
Test suites.
Test suites.

(Boundaries!)

Tonight: Agent Swarms! From Julian Moncarz.

I didn’t ever dare bring the Walkman into the woods…so I hummed “I Think We’re Alone Now” heading in.

Then let the forest sing to me.

I was ever so lucky to have grown up next to massive forest. Wow. We were feral af.

I didn’t get rained on, but I got fogged. And it’s strange to describe… it isn’t quite a Fundy fog, which bites and is more dropletty, but like a … Toronto May fog, that kind of embraces you?

It’s quite nice. Nothing like it. Haven’t been to Guayocil yet tho,so, maybe it’s common…

Yes!

The sun was always at me.

And then the seafood and potatoes. OMG and I love potatoes. I ate so well. I can’t think of a single bad meal. I can only remember positive interactions.

What little Spanish I croak instantly causes the listener to launch into Spenglish. Lovely people.

Ask better questions.

Smart, because there are more Federalist votes towards the median than there are seperatist votes to the fringe.

It’ll maybe shave 5 points off his 40 to 60 point margins in rural Alberta, while retaining access to Federalist votes in the ROC (including QC).

It’s been a cold few weeks in Toronto. Today, 6c, and
my first outdoor run of the year! (Glory to my winter running friends!)

So much better than the treadmill!

The air off the lake in the lungs and the dodging puddles on the MGT is just magical.

A nice amuse pied.

Did anybody partake?

Yes! The hard science fiction distinction is that the story isn’t possible without the science. It becomes more science what-if.

Many SF audiences will tolerate one piece of magic, rendering it closer to fantasy. And that’s fine. People are allowed to like things.

Your meme is now my property

PM Carney said he was going to do this.
By political standards it was a minute ago.
And now the talks have started.
Canada is in the middle, the bridge between them.

If Karp truly doesn’t know that saying some things upsets people, then that alone is a great gift. He’s telling us exactly what he is, and adjustments to power distribution can be made.

If Karp knows, and doesn’t care, it’s still a gift. Because civil society can act with a bit more urgency.

The constraint might be what audiences will tolerate though. It’s a bit strange that Markley’s “The Deluge” sits alongside other pop lit.

Perhaps that’s unjust. I remain in awe of Markley’s ability to write that rhythmically. English sure doesn’t sing like French. English is a bagpipe.

The typewriter combined with mechanization of the printing press probably created a burst of mechanical slop.

I remember Orwell referring to it in 1984, they were the machines Julia probably maintained.

As a reader, I’m more excited about better written, better imagined, fiction than ever before.

Assume the social graph is isotropic. The resentiest people in your network ought to look a lot like the resentiest people in yours?

more sub-500b models that rival Opus & GPT-5.2

imo Qwen tends to go too hard on RLVR, so we’ll see. but this latest crop of Chinese models are very interesting and definitely giving US closed models a run for their money