John Flournoy

Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.

Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.

The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

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If you don't have kids or pets I think the second? We had one in... College I think, And it was surprisingly resilient. Wait it was probably like velvetine or whatever that "velvet like" fabric is

Funny, saw something similar in San Diego.

Is it that doing so would reveal clear discrimination against protected classes?

It seems to me he's trying really hard not to put anything on the record re the details of what dei means... I'm no lawyer, and I'd be super curious to hear about why he was instructed to not answer this kind of question.

This is what it looks like to be an "electrostate"; politics flow from what energy infrastructures will allow.

I reread this every quarter or so and it's already in the draft of a maybe book. That's how much this preface means to me.

DC folks actually sort of need to demand that heads roll over this. It’s a real problem if law enforcement in the capital is so pathetic, weak, and supine that their instinct is to act as stormtroopers for illicit federal power grabs.

I stay reading water news and oof this ain't great

I want a taste!!!

done! decided to top it off with roasted hazelnuts because why wouldn't i

A few things I've learnt from writing >4,000 word pieces:

- They tend to be more popular than my short pieces!
- They're more definitive - like reference material, not a hot take.
- Not everyone will reach the end, and that's okay.
- Write so that the people who do find it incredibly satisfying.

Suddenly have an idea for an awesome road trip movie

Bobby. You’re next, sweetie.

omg, yes. @bakerdphd.bsky.social has razor-sharp takes on everything but thank you for this in particular. I've never seen anyone else clearly point out that these preprints that get wild press must be running an entire planned PR campaign.

am enamored with the textual outputs of @bakerdphd.bsky.social

if you look closely, these snake bars are also waffle charts, which raises the question, what food item are they really?

funnel cake chart?

thank you for your service

is there anyway to keep stack exchange sites alive during these LLM times? Honestly I'm sure we're having useful question/answer exchanges with LLM that could be valuable on these sites, esp if experts are asked to weigh in as well.

for me, a short and skinny mofo, long term weight gain given continued strength training.

I truly do think all of the "Noem out, Mullin in" posts and stories are failing American democracy right now!

Trump is announcing his nominee.

That's it.

If the Senate majority wants to confirm him, they're a part of this—even after knowing what they know now.

And that matters come November.

I don't know if you're active on here but this might be something you'd like, @margaretgallagher.bsky.social

This is totally different than what I've been trained to do in psychology. I start by assuming a correlation and build a process model to create that correlation.

It pushes me to follow up with questions about maybe measuring volume (not event * heart-rate) give better fidelity. And how much can I constrain it. And once I have it, will it predict future data.

I get estimates of things like how the event and heart-rate translate to intensity, how much decay there is between sessions. I can make the model flexible enough to fully capture the weight data, but it becomes unrealistic.

Working on a toy model to predict weight changes from workouts. Building a model of a process like this is eye-opening. I'm not asking "do workouts change my weight," but rather, "what's a good model for turning workout events into weight changes."

holy crap and the book is about OLPC.

this is why I think morgan ames's "charisma" approach to understanding these technologies works better than "hype." tech like llms produce a mirage-like effect, directing attention towards them and away from the human systems they operate in, even (and I would say especially) for critics.

4-panel SMBC comic update. A lawyer in a suit is passing an envelop to a man sitting at a desk. The lawyer says he was sent by the employee's wife to serve him these papers. The employee is shocked, saying that he loves her, and trails off saying she loves him too. He pulls the papers out of the envelop. It's filled with blank construction paper. The lawyer adds that she also sent crayons and horsie stencils, prompting the man to say "HOORAY!" happily.

I need to do an upbeat comic week one of these days. They all end with hooray.

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