Josh Perryman
@JoshPerryman
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Guy in TX. Married to a girl. Got 4 kids. Keeping real w/ God. Oh, and I also do distributed graph databases.
College Station, TX
Joined April 2010
I graduated with high honors from an affluent, acclaimed high school and then again with high honors with a BA in philosophy & pre-law before EVER once hearing the idea that prices convey information and coordinate actors. I'll never forget rolling up to a philosophy conference
Really interesting piece on how University of Chicago professors helped a national network of food banks get surplus food much more efficiently to where it's needed, by creating an internal auction market.
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Excited to be on @CNN tonight talking about the rise of fake AI news with Miles Davis and Galadriel of Rivendell.
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I buried Zorro in our backyard just a few days ago. I cannot convey the devastation felt by Kimela and Ariel. Please help as you are able.
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Never have I seen such heartbreak up close. I don't ever ask, but this time I must. GoFundMe link follows
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Working on some yard signs for the newly popular free trade movement
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@asymmetricinfo So why not yield to a future in which real-world speeches will mostly be written by AIs? Because the process of learning how to write is the process of learning how to think. Because crafting a speech to appeal to a given audience is an exercise in empathy.
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Men will literally try to recreate the CPI from scratch instead of going to therapy
This side-by-side of raising a family in 1995 vs 2025 is actually depressing. It’s not just inflation—it’s a completely different world.
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Government-funded basic research and industrial translation research are complements, not substitutes. The left frequently gets this wrong, thinking that the government does all the real work and private firms (notably pharma) just steal the idea and make bank. Now the right is
Yes, the most successful pitches to VCs have the form, "I have no idea how we will make money from this research, but it will likely take decades, and benefits would accrue to society at large." This is how we got the Internet, MRI, CRISPR, etc..
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for starters I don’t think you’re selfish for not having children and kids actually are a joy to have but if you need a different reason, I really liked what some other couple once said, about wanting to have “a maximum human experience”. I’ll elaborate how I interpreted that
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Well, it's Joe Biden's last full day in office, and I have a lot to say about it. https://t.co/cvVGKwdsRO
natesilver.net
He made a triple devil’s bargain: with the pandemic, his age, and a Democratic Party that can’t get its priorities straight.
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One of the most important questions every society must answer: what story will you give your young men to help them order their lives? A story of hope leading to the belief they can make the world better, or another story. They will act, but the direction is set by the story
I read this article and it boils down to the writer believing the Hero archetype is corrosive, bad, and unnecessary -- an outdated concept of masculinity. I personally think the continual appeal of the hero archetype, especially to younger men, is something a society shouldn't
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This is so true When I write code, I try to write it for the dumbest programmer that I know: me 6 months in the future
Hot take: Cognitive load is better metric than clean code! https://t.co/PzLEXXmvat by @zakirullin
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This @tabletmag piece is the most brutal beatdown of @davidaxelrod and, to a lesser extent, @BarackObama -- and their dystopic, authoritarian, and totalitarian approach to gaining and preserving power.
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Ok, real talk: I've known people who have run for congress and lost (which is always the modal outcome for a non-incumbent), and watched the process closely because once upon I time I thought I might want to do it myself. Here's how it really works: (1/n)
If you want congress to be less corrupt you have to pay sitting congressmen more than they'd get as an ex-congressman lobbyist
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Please read @BrandondelPozo's thoughtful reflection on Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely. https://t.co/bXu7AHzNNE
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My husband’s (@EithanHaim) First Amendment rights may be under attack by a de facto gag order – but mine are not. 🧵1/7 On Dec 3, the judge threatened Eithan with FEDERAL PRISON and his attorneys with sanctions if they continue to post so-called “inflammatory” content on X about
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Good Essay on the History of Bad Password Policies
schneier.com
Stuart Schechter makes some good points on the history of bad password policies: Morris and Thompson’s work brought much-needed data to highlight a problem that lots of people suspected was bad, but...
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