Software engineer at Coursera. Gaymer. Would like the world to be less on fire. He/Him
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Two things can simultaneously be true:
1. Democratic *politicians* need to meet voters where they are in order to win elections.
2. Democratic *non-politicians* who consider yourselves to be allies need to convince your friends and family to be better than this on these issues.
Singling out gay men as responsible for this when we are one of the demographics who are most supportive of trans rights and who most reliably voted Democratic is both homophobic and victim blaming.
Andy Nguyen retweeted
“What makes sense for the government to operate” is a genuinely interesting question, and shouldn’t be squashed into a binary of “more” vs “less”
A play in 3 acts
ALT Figure from a recent paper showing that people using LLMs to write essays are far less likely to be able to quote what they wrote than people who do not
ALT Quote from a Time interview with the paper author claiming that they intentionally left out the version of ChatGPT used in the experiments in order to catch hallucinations
ALT Quote from the paper explicitly stating which version of GPT was used
Peer review would not have caught this, since reviewers review only the paper, not news media interviews, but this level of hubris makes me wonder what else is wrong with this paper.
Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872v1
News article: time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-…
Happy Pride Month! A reminder that we queer folk have to pay a premium on housing in order to live in places that offer housing protection: redfin.com/news/lgbtq-housin…
A great way to be an impactful ally is to support building more housing in these places.
Conversely, allyship rings hollow if you oppose building more housing in these areas. What's the point of housing protections if there's no more room for us in the first place? @aishabbwahab
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It's do or die for SB 79, the bill that would legalize multifamily housing around rail and BRT stops across the state. The vote could be held as early as Monday morning.
Californians: call your state senator tomorrow morning to help us get out of the senate!
Hey @Vanguard_Group I don't think the kinds of people who hold ESG ETFs would be happy to see this
Ironically, this is something covered in introductory STEM classes that the DOGEheads and their defenders are getting wrong.
This has gotten more attention than I expected, so I thought I'd try to explain the concepts behind this paper to a broader audience. First, let's imagine a simpler case: no airlines, no corporate profits, etc., I just really need to get from A to B and the plane costs $1200. 🧵
If you're curious as to the math behind why this happens, take a look at researchgate.net/publication…
The calculation is somewhat different when you just maximize revenue, but ironically it becomes closer to the single-plane scenario when we switch to maximizing profit, since an airline will simply not offer a flight if it can only operate at a loss.