Special properties

Based on a fun conversation on here, I wrote about the arXiv position paper controversy and the weird, unwritten, organic evolution of academic practice.

rumors of the bias-variance tradeoff's demise have been greatly exaggerated

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why don't ice car batteries show charge levels by default?

"bipartisan comedy" sounds like a DC band

that's like, a kids menu slider

the problem with most AI slop imagery is imo less that it's slop and more that it's increasingly coded tacky and unsophisticated

Likes are the little deaths that bring total obliteration.

the feed is the mind killer. I will not scroll the feed

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People think “prompt engineering” is about finding the perfectly polite monologue to deliver to your chatbot but what it’s really about is about pasting the right schizophrenically generated block quotes into your system prompt from random sources in unmeasured amounts.

need to mute image templates

16.5 hours of haiku 4.5 lfg

I'm still so confused by this whole dustup. Why should peer-reviewed papers be posted to pre-print servers? When did everyone become so committed to churning out position papers? What happened to the public_html/ directory?

good piece

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Gemini having SOTA satellite data understanding was not on my 2025 bingo card, yet here we are :) https://developers.googleblog.com/en/unlocking-multi-spectral-data-with-gemini/

trying out vibe research with my Claude Code web credits this weekend

Who is someone who does old school operations research on public agencies in the US?

sex positive dating app called kinkedin and you can log in with your linkedin account

otoh, pecuniary incentives fit into many more spaces than virtues do. 0-1 loss is nice but not very tractable

tl split between whether 101% confidence intervals are a signal of nonsense or of epistemic humility

you fool, it's only a hopf bifurcation in 2 dimensions. in 3 dimensions it's simply an unbearably long time to return

Intuitively,

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Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

has anyone seeing this purchased the corelogic climate scores product, or worked on it? or know someone who has done either? and is willing to chat about it?

sonnet 4.5 really doesn't like diffusion equations huh

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Fascinating economics job market paper by Jens Oehlen on the effects of Enigma codebreaking and how it interacted with military/intelligence strategy jensoehlen.github.io/uploads/Enig...

file under "lessons I learned the hard way"

broke: product as a service woke: service as a product

rationals are the only well named number system. they should name all the number systems after the operation that constructs them. counting numbers, rationals, limit numbers, radical numbers

You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.

anyone got any good "el mao" reaction memes? trying to bottle the 💀¯\_(ツ)_/¯💀 essence

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tuesday evening, aka "how tf am i almost halfway through my weekly all models limit"

imo the correct dem immigration position is engraved in stone on ellis island

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no one: zombie natasha bedingfield: FEEL THE BRAIN ON YOUR SKIN

"number of sole-author econometricas"

elder cat got a little bit of bacon and now I am beloved

monday morning, aka "why is claude so slow" hours

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existence of daylight saving implies existence of daylight investment

Compare to US

love it when referees give vague, sweeping, and snarky comments. "???" on the first word of a sentence with no other context? 10/10, literally no notes

did a new paper / model drop, or is it just the usual "what is intelligence" discourse?