If irony weren't already dead, this would kill it.

this is going into Theo's Rules About Machine learning, alongside "You Don't Have to Teach The Model The True Distribution -- Any Distribution Will Do."

You Can Backprop Anything You Want. It's Just The Chain Rule. Jacobians Don't Care What Kind Of Algebraic Bullshit You're Jamming Into Them.

Okay, so you used a chatbot to collate a bunch of possibly-correct data into something that resembles a dissertation without having to learn anything yourself. But why? Obviously not to be read by anyone (b/c they’re faking it too). Just to get a credential you don’t deserve? Is that “wealth?”

Kristi Noems husband 10 days after they get a dog from the pound

My new favorite conspiracy theory is that Dharma decided to punish Pol Pot by reincarnating him to live as Elon Musk.

When he says "we make a lot of money" he's not talking about you and me

I didn't say the change would be good! I do think it's a tool that will empower good engineers to be even better, and conversely people who weren't careful before are going to become that much more dangerous going forward, for exactly the reasons you just said

Also to repeat another critic: No one has had to maintain this stuff yet, or seen what the drawbacks of your engineers not really understanding the codebase are. The knowledge-rot may prove organizationally fatal.

I think people are continuing to undervalue craftsmanship as well, like they have for the entire history of software engineering.

I don't think the job has fundamentally changed, really, judgement about what's worth doing has always been the most important thing for most work.

it's going to fundamentally change the nature of jobs that use a computer. and soon. i can only really speak as a software engineer, but it is turning it into a different, though related, job. just, its gonna be a different thing than even just last year

I didn't believe until I did claude code

Huh

(If you had ChatGPT do your analysis you didn't write that article and you should be treated like a plagiarist)

The defense department is at war with Iran while the defense secretary is at war with the media.

As time goes on, Jewish anti-Zionism reveals itself not only as solidarity with Palestinians but also as an anti-antisemitism strategy. We want out of this toxic dialectic, this terrible feedback loop between Israeli belligerence and the Jewish precarity it incessantly engenders

Iran’s strategy of attrition seems to be working so far

"so Kennedy worship is like Trotskyism <for liberals>' - my wife, absolutely cooking

I don't vote in Illinois, and I'm more focused on Iowa than elsewhere as a result, but if you have to under-the-table pay influencers to say shitty things about @katmabu.bsky.social maybe you should suck less as candidates.

Hegseth is right at the top of my "priorities for criminal prosecution" trumpworld power rankings. He's not just lying, stealing, and obstructing justice; he's doing the sort of things that get you hanged at a tribunal.

This is correct. My take is that it's the worst of both worlds: there's plenty of evidence that Hegseth is a dumbass who doesn't know what the words he uses mean and that he wants the US military to commit a bunch of war crimes.

The spicier tradeoffs are in cost control. If private insurance isn't acting as sin eaters by saying no to some health care, then the state has to take the role of sometimes telling people they can't have treatments they want.

I don't understand why the left can't be honest about the tradeoffs that would come with universal healthcare. "Most people will pay more in taxes, but it's worth it" is simple and persuasive. "All we have to do is cut military spending and tax billionaires" just isn't true.

More like a week of healthcare

It’s insane to me that there are people on this planet who are even more hawkish than Pete Hegseth.

I’m pretty sure there was “reporting” from “sources” like a week ago that Vance was one of the guys pushing for maximum airstrikes.

Bush invaded Iraq on March 20 and Baghdad fell on April 9 (20 days). we’re 13 days into the Iran war and Iran is still able to control one of the most important shipping lanes in the world

This is worth remembering if Senator Mark Kelly runs for President.

What I think the takeaway is here is that there’s no Democrat veteran the military and its media backers will stand behind, no matter how Illustrious their service.

The SwiftBoating of Walz’s military career was faster and more vicious than I could have ever expected. Devastatingly effective. Even outwardly anti-trump VetBros who knew better took up with the band. I heard about it nearly every time I canvassed. If Walz came up, so did the smears.

Tim Walz offering a positive vision of traditional masculinity and being loathed for it was low key one of the most blackpillling events of the past decade plus.

Fun fact: Tim Walz has not gone along with sports betting. Sports betting is illegal in Minnesota, even at tribal casinos.

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Lots of Bernie bros are driven by a resentment of professional women which they disguise as class politics but is really a combination of anti-intellectualism and misogyny

Damn tinder really making their product even worse, huh? Like it's bad enough, and then they do this. They *really* don't want my money.

Dems need to go on the attack on immigration!! Undermine your opponents strongest issue

I don’t know what we can do against a media apparatus that turns mundane things into scandals at the drop of a hat.

you should attack your enemies where they are strong. politics is paradoxical like that

I still can’t believe they still haven’t decided on *why* we are at war with Iran yet. Like the president. SecDef, state department and Israelis all give different answers

this aggression war is a tactical nightmare, illegal, and racist Corrected it

Call me Walter White because I’m all about these purity tests

Reporters like Republicans and want them to win

This is very much implied in your post, but it is genuinely incoherent to accuse people of imposing “purity tests” at the primary phase. Like yes, primary voters will select the nominee that best reflects their values and positions! That is the entire point of a primary!

Why are reporters surprised that a Democratic congressional district is producing candidates who agree with the Democratic primary electorate's consensus on these issues?

Bernie wasn't beating Biden in a 1-1 in 2020 guys

bad as Biden was at times, Bloomberg would have been all the bad and none of the good

her entire run was justified in foreclosing that path for the party especially after Bloomberg tried to bribe so many Black politicians to give him endorsements

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