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Yeh, when I made my post I got all errors, that's why I said oof.
But I tried again later today and got mostly results back. So not sure what's going on in the backend.
I wonder if Lebron got the idea to try and trademark "Taco Tuesdays" from Riley.
Either way, this is dumb. It's clearly no longer associated with any business so the trademark should expire.
That linked blog post from FRED was so weird though. It literally called these graphs histograms, but they're not histograms! ( Just because you use bars doesn't make a histogram.) Very surprising mistake, I wonder who copyedited that post, if anyone.
Yet, a lot of people within academia also feel like research is oversaturated. It might not be a bad thing to review how we prioritize what projects get funding and how we do things.
Zombie project is right.
I don't believe we can build anything efficiently in America anymore. The people are too lazy, too entitled, and too incompetent.
Sorry, Americans! I stand with Vivek!
— Intellectually challenged New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman for “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom,” a piece of pop punditry so mind-bogglingly stupid that even the mind-bogglingly stupid Thomas Friedman should be ashamed. The piece attempts to dumb down all of Middle East politics for American readers, whom Friedman obviously despises, insulting them with a turgid stream of journalistic junk as offensive as it is idiotic. Comparing Iranians to “parasitoid wasps” and Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq to caterpillars, he then lionizes the US (literally) before comparing Netanyahu to a “sifaka lemur.” I swear I am not making this up.
The average New York Times reader is a nursery school student who somehow ended up getting a masters degree.
Yeah, a bit of nuance.... I only meant that I wouldn't price-gouge during a disaster assuming I was already advertising a room for rent.
But if I wasn't already looking for a tenant, I wouldn't offer it up during the disaster either... unless there was a significant reason to do so, financial or otherwise. (Instead, i'd probably keep that room available for friends or family in need)
Serious answer -- people have some moral intuitions about fairness that extend beyond traditional economic analysis. Thus, gouging someone in a time of disaster is looked on differently than gouging someone on their luxury trip.
I think when economists / libertarians / conservatives / anyone fail to acknowledge that, they undermine their own influence and credibility. (Fair or not.)
Instead, I usually communicate my price-gouging stance like this:
"Would I personally raise prices that much in a time of emergency? No, because I wouldn't feel good about it. However, I think if all the political energy is spent attacking price gougers, then that's a distraction. Because all anti price-gouging laws do is change who can get the housing... it doesn't change how much housing is available."
It would have been nice to have ai in my grad school days. It's actually a great tool for lit review and for explaining basic ideas that you have a general idea of but want more elaboration
Damn, I still have a lot to learn. But that blog also confirms what I've been learning, that it's the Reinforcement Learning part that's the real big innovation.
As to the cost, the blog says this:
Some say DeepSeek simply digested OAI’s models and have replicated their intelligence, and the benefit of all that human-in-the-loop reinforcement, at a fraction of the cost.You could argue OAI scraped the internet to make ChatGPT and now DeepSeek have scraped ChatGPT.All is fair in love and AI, right?
So, the cost figure is definitely a lot more believable if you consider that it was built on top of previously trained models and weights. I think the way some people were talking about it, they made it seem like they just did it from scratch.
I was wondering, @south_korea_ln, are you a materials scientist? Some of the posts you make, including this one, led me to have this impression.
Not distopian enough. Gotta be some hard boiled gritty dude asking in a low voice, "Do you have bitcoin?", in response to someone offering him government scrip
Yeah, the timing of when things happen is always tricky. Something can be unsustainable, but still persist for a long time, especially if a lot of investment and infra was put into it already.
That being said, if USG made a fork, I think I'd just treat it as another fiat. I'd still continue to invest in the "true chain", but I'd happily use my "USG-coins" for purchases or whatever as long as the network persists.
The sad thing is that the CEX's will probably call USG-coin "Bitcoin", and those of us holding onto the "true chain" will need to adopt some other name, for the time-being.