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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

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ernie, (edited ) to random
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Sean Lennon, one of the first people to own a Mac in 1984 (given directly to him by Steve Jobs), whose dad wrote fucking “Imagine” and “Revolution,” is complaining about “wokism,” clearly not aware of the messages in his father’s own songs.

jmsdnns,
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@ernie i appreciate the sentiment here, but lennon didnt invent wokeism. claiming he did may cause you some issues, depending on who reads that, so I say this to be helpful ✌️

jmsdnns, to random
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I'll never forget the way the tech industry was sacrificed to counter inflation

Nov 2022: The Fed minutes show they want increased unemployment to stop inflation (1st pic)

June 2023: Bernanke and Blanchard say the labor market will have increasing influence of over inflation, and the Fed should continue slowing the economy (2nd pic)

May 2024: Where we are now, and tech roles are still rare. The few openings that exist still receive thousands of applicants

The image shows highlighted text from the Bernanke & Blanchard paper published by Brookings, available here: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-caused-the-u-s-pandemic-era-inflation/ > To the extent that commodity prices stabilize and sectoral shortages moderate-processes that both seem well advanced as of this writing (June 2023)—the goods market component of inflation is likely to decrease in importance, and the labor market component to become more dominant. Looking forward, with labor market slack still below sustainable levels and inflation expectations modestly higher, we conclude that the Fed has to slow the economy to return inflation to target.

jmsdnns,
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@sqrt2 tech has more than enough money to keep everyone employed. it's the numbers of people who usually spend that suddenly wont, and whether or not the rest of the public will care about tech layoffs, which we know now that they do not

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@sqrt2 you think that's all they do? history tells a different story over and over and
over. you'll find important recent lessons both in the 2008 crisis and the management of SVB's collapse.

worth digging into, but without that there is no need for me respond further. ✌️

kjhealy, to random
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As someone who still has a strong streak of Dream-of-the-90s Web in their bones it's a bit demoralizing to find the AI Search-Summarize-Slop Loop seriously confronting me with the question of why I, or anyone, should ever again write anything of substance that's just freely available online to people who might be interested.

jmsdnns,
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@kjhealy the best answer might be so we can know it was you who wrote it. AI totally obscures who said what, but we need experts and we need to know what the experts said

dabeaz, to random
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Clearly I should stop digging.

jmsdnns,
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@dabeaz you're not wrong! i think the phrasing is tripping people up.

i interpret what you're saying like a messy paint palette, or someone's first band, or whatever mess exists because it is a stepping stone towards skill that represents an experiment of some kind

jmsdnns, to random
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💰 What caused the U.S. pandemic-era inflation?

by Ben S. Bernanke and Olivier Blanchard

> Non-competitive behavior is another possibility, as the food price index includes distribution margins, and the retail food industry has become more concentrated in recent decades

That is academic 🔥 for saying greedflation was real and came from companies having too much power. Bernanke and Blanchard are two giants of economics, so it is HUGE that they concluded this.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-caused-the-u-s-pandemic-era-inflation/

elizabethtasker, to vr
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Tried out “Demeo” tonight: a multiplayer adventure board game that you can play in or . It was well done, and fun to see the pieces animate and move! Also easier to learn the rules than for a regular board game as you weren’t able to make an invalid move, and aspects such as the cards were dealt automatically!

jmsdnns,
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@elizabethtasker this looks beautiful! what hardware did you use? was it cross-platform, like to other goggles..?

dabeaz, to random
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Trying to convince the kid to do summer community band with me. Aside from the big hurdle of "playing with a bunch of olds", I contend that community band is the way to get good.

We'll probably play 20+ songs. Real arrangements. Stuff they'd play in the top HS band. You'd probably only get 1-2 rehearsals per song--tons of sight reading. People are there to play and have fun. So, it's totally chill, not competitive. Get to be out in the community. And it's free. Unlike band camp.

jmsdnns,
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@dabeaz i grew up in punk scenes that operated much the same way, and i couldnt agree more! if you actually wanna play music, you gotta hang with the folks who do it for the love, not cuz they have rich parents

jmsdnns,
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@dabeaz what instrument(s) do you play?

jmsdnns,
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@dabeaz "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." –Benjamin Franklin

jmsdnns,
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@dabeaz ohhh that is awesome! i love the sound of brass instruments so much

jmsdnns, to DuckDuckGo
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I know isn't perfect, but I love what they're trying to do so much.

Let's go easy on them for whatever mistakes they make today as they work under extreme stress to get everything working again.

Airplane Sweat GIF

dabeaz, to random
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Kid: "How do I play a blues solo?"

Me: "Play almost nothing."

jmsdnns,
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@dabeaz i agree with the point you're making, but there's also this guy https://youtu.be/yQ2dvtMuFqs?t=85s

jmsdnns,
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@dabeaz i'd even say that if someone plays a wrong note in a solo, they should do it again. folks will think it's intentional 😅

jmsdnns,
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@dabeaz pretty sure this is how blues scales were born! lol

jmsdnns,
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@dabeaz @elhult i once heard idle processors repeatedly ask for the GIL

jmsdnns, to random
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AI just doesnt matter next to electric vehicles, healthcare, or education

jmsdnns,
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@benroyce they should all read Childhood's End, by Arthur C Clarke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End

jmsdnns,
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@benroyce I should elaborate. the tech bros are essentially trying to give us a tech based communist revolution, where they give us utopia and we give up automomy. the generated information could easily be filled with propaganda and it is unlikely we'd ever know, perhaps writing it off as hallucinations.

and yet, the same people dont care about helping hungry people on the streets of SF

jmsdnns, to random
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The experiment we just did at Penn to see if AIs can do homeworks for AI students concludes with everyone reassured that AIs completely fail at getting the logic right for anything complex, even with good feedback for improvements

I tried having it generate code for markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, basic language models, and perceptrons, and the AIs did an absolutely terrible job

You can see the homeworks we tested on here http://artificial-intelligence-class.org/

bitprophet, to random
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Disturbed to realize a significant portion of my incidental “heh, so” conversation fodder, revolves around:

  • misreading something, amusingly
  • misunderstanding something, amusingly
  • going off on a bizarre, yet amusing, mental tangent

Or similar.

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jmsdnns,
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@bitprophet JeffGPT

jmsdnns, to random
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📜 I look forward to starting my weekend with this interview with @ProfMSinha about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, about the Reconstruction period after the Civil War

Her book, The Slave's Cause, was phenomenal and I cant wait to finish my current book so I can start this one!

https://youtu.be/4Ag-Z1dAJsQ

paninid, to random
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Gritty is not wrong.

jmsdnns,
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@ramsey @paninid @fedwards9965 Jackson hated banks and banking, so he became friends with Aaron Burr entirely because he shot Hamilton, creator of the first national bank. Through that, he learned of Burr and Wilkinson's plot to sever land from the US to create a new nation and Jackson wrote to President Jefferson to tell him about it while promising to defend the nation. He testified as a witness in the Burr's trial for treason where John Marshall defined "treason" for the first time in US law

jmsdnns, to random
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do people still like meetups? if so, are they still using meetup.com?

i have an idea for one and i'm not sure where to go

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