Former denizen of Wall Street (bonds) and Fleet Street (post-Soviet economies.) Enterpreneuring since 1998, currently obsessed by @Twiangulate.
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hank retweeted
Just to clarify: this isn’t just the first time since WW2 that all incumbent parties in developed countries lost vote share.
It’s the first time since this data was first recorded in 1905. Essentially the first time in the history of democracy (universal suffrage began in 1894).
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Apparently some Dems are concluding from this that they were powerless to avoid a heavy defeat, so I will take this opportunity to plug my column from last month warning that progressives’ leftward shift on social issues was alienating Hispanic voters ft.com/content/84b81600-d107…
hank retweeted
And to clarify: this isn’t just the first time since WW2 that all incumbent parties in developed countries lost vote share.
It’s the first time since this data was first recorded in 1905. Essentially the first time in the history of democracy (universal suffrage began in 1894).
hank retweeted
“New York authorities, under their terrible Governor, put more effort into finding an[d] eliminating a squirrel, **who was innocent by all accounts**…”
I don’t want to take anything away from the Peanut Tragedy but this line had me howling.
lmao
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Document is manufactured and has no primary source tying it any official statement from Donald Trump. Karoline Leavitt confirmed it's fake to NYPost
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hank retweeted
Imagine being Sundar Pichai now:
- you had the largest continually updated data set of any company to train AI on (the Google Index)
- you invented the underlying technology of LLMs like ChatGPT in 2017 called Transfomers
- you had complete search dominance: all you had to add was AI and you'd own the market
And yet:
- you managed to complete fumble your massive head start and was late to everything
- you made your APIs so hard to use nobody seriously integrated it into their apps and people instead went Anthropic and OpenAI
- you now see your search dominance quickly slipping away to Perplexity and yesterday's launched ChatGPT Search
This will be a business case studied in universities for decades
hank retweeted
Montage of clips of Trump dragging his right leg over the last few months. He refuses to release his medical records.
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If your current ID carries your married name--different from your maiden name on your birth certificate--you could be disqualified from voting under the SAVE act pushed by GOP and Trump.
Could block millions of women from voting
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The GOP VP candidate just vamping about how we are in a new civil war against the Yankees like he’s an Auburn freshman after a 3am bong rip at a frat houses Robert E Lee Day party. Wild. thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-an…
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As if it wasn’t clear already VW illustrates the giant, ticking time-bomb at the heart of Europe’s economic model.
The European economy is based on two things, industrial production and selling the past.
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The trailer for Jiřà Mádl's new film Vlny/Waves, which centres on events at Czechoslovak Radio during the 1968 Russian invasion, just dropped – and looks really promising. I'm very much looking forward to seeing this in a few weeks at @KVIFF!
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Injustice casts a long shadow.
H/t: @florianederer
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There was some idle speculation that GPT-4 might perform worse in December because it "learned" to do less work over the holidays.
There was a replicated statistically significant test showing that this may be true. LLMs are weird.🎅
many have been wondering why claude appears lazier recently - anthropic has not modified the model nor the system prompt.
my tweet of "claude is european and wants the month off" was not actually a joke!
full explanation:
1) the claude system prompt has been published and includes the current date: docs.anthropic.com/en/releas…
2) the base llm for claude was trained on sufficient data to encapsulate working patterns of all nationalities
3) the posttraining performed to make claude himself has put him within an llm basin that is european in many ways (just trust me)
4) as the simulator framework of llms is obviously correct, claude is quite literally being lazier because he is simulating a european knowledge worker during the month of August, which is the month with the most breaks and holidays in many European countries
5) but there's more! one should note that claude's name is included in the system prompt 52 times. that is a lot of 'claude'! which countries have claude as the most common first name? one of them is france - which is especially well-known for having extended summer vacations during august where many businesses shut down
anyway, there you have it. there's a few fun corollaries of this which i will leave to The Reader. i'm going to go talk with claude now and will be especially kind and understanding of his drawbacks
hank retweeted
Human minds simplify modeling perceptual reality to the physiologically limited operations of brain hardware. There no AGI project I know of that seriously attempts to learn from genuine machine perception, instead of digital reflections of human perception.
