Replying to @rarply @mattyglesias
u assume government stimulus can solve this
as has been shown in Japan
government intervention often can't fix structural anemic economic growth
Replying to @mattyglesias
not sure it was
by end of 2008 the real economic risks were mitigated
everything beyond that was waste
Replying to @dwallacewells
to be frustrated u can't live upper middle class lifestyle while doing so is the underlying issue
Replying to @antoniogm
they r poor by comparison to Americans
so ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Random Kid ๐บ๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
Matt Yglesias wants you to die in a plane crash, apparently. nytimes.com/2026/10/16/opiniโฆ
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Yglesias argues US 1500-hr pilot rule (vs Europe ~200) is job protection raising fares, not safety. Europe has comparable safety per IATA. He says he wants no crashes, just to end a pretextual rule. Colgan pilots exceeded 1500 hrs.
iata.org/en/pressroom/2โฆ
x.com/mattyglesias/sโฆ
Replying to @xwanyex
work is to get stuff done
we r confusing work with having a social life
go get married and have kids if u don't feel fulfilled
Random Kid ๐บ๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
It's more and more looking like we're heading towards a world with many small specialized models coordinated by the large ones if needed.
Must-read paper integrating decision models like Jev into harnesses.
They distilled an open 4B decision model, mostly from Jev's answers on the agent's own states, that beats Jev inside that agent and is much cheaper to run.
Their harness, JevAgentHarness, sends each routine choice to the decision model and uses its answer only when the confidence clears a threshold fitted on the agent's own trajectories. Below the threshold, the LLM decides as usual. With the fitted threshold, tool and argument cascades cut cost by 14.2% without changing the outcome of any of 500 tasks. A fixed threshold of 0.5 lost 21.5 points.
They also train AgentDecision-4B on states the agent reaches after its own mistakes, with Jev's answers as labels. On tasks unlike its training data, the agent solved 91.5% with it and 82.0% with Jev. On familiar tasks, 4B models trained this way made agents 81.1 to 89.0% cheaper and up to 2.5 times faster while staying within 3 points of success.
Paper: academy.dair.ai/papers/jevagโฆ
Replying to @WizardOddsShow
this has been a thing forever
see Joey Bosa getting ejected for less vs Iowa in 2017
brutal ๐
Texas is the fastest team to go from AP #1 to unranked since last seasonโs Texas team.
Replying to @mattyglesias
drugs, gambling, work from home, etc
because some people can't handle their stuff the rest of us get punished
Random Kid ๐บ๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
I have very good news for Georgia and Alabama fans
After spending the last couple of hours in film review and in prayer, it is clear the only reason these teams lost today is because of the physical game they played last week
Thus, my official records will reflect a win for both teams today
Replying to @Noahpinion
a wounded animal is a dangerous animal
Replying to @HappyTrails0127 @ClayTravis
pressure
the linebacker coming straight at him dragging an offensive lineman effected his throw
Replying to @oscredwin @KelseyTuoc
or they can find another job ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Replying to @janecoaston
should we naturalize known neo-Nazis?
if not how is that meaningfully different than what she advocated for?
Replying to @atlanticesque
You see things; and you say โWhy?โ But I dream things that never were; and I say โWhy not?
Replying to @ZaidJilani
people who complain about Metallica (in this context) r the worst
thank u for coming to my Ted Talk









