Brian Lui
@brianluidog
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Writing a sports drama! Blog occasionally (link below). Used to be an equity research analyst and portfolio manager.
Sydney, Australia
Joined January 2018
Just moved to Sydney so I'm starting a thread about funny or cool stuff I'm noticing!
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Why did the PLA name their machine gun the "Type 67"? Can anyone answer this?!
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Our 9yo is learning to use the internet and it looks like he is mostly using it to find out creative ways to refuse my instructions?! "Hey Howardo, time to take a shower" "I don't think that's happening! 😃" Maybe the internet was a mistake
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In my bubble, the three "legit" LLMs are Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. I knew that Claude was much less well-known but I didn't know by how much: ChatGPT has 810 million users, Gemini has 346 million users, and Claude has only three thousand users. Info bubbles are crazy!
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Here is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues in full:
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Lady Gaga has some pretty good songs. You can't underestimate her.
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You can deduce which side is the animal welfare and which side is the longtermism.
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You know what AI discussions on gaming forums remind me of? The effective altruism forums. Exactly the same vibe.
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I have a light headache after skipping coffee this morning. Maybe this is what quitting drugs cold turkey is like.
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I skipped breakfast today because of a dentist appointment. Did you know many of the world's worst dictators and killers also skipped breakfast?
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I think smart, curious, scientifically informed people tend to be attracted to small "l" liberalism. And especially in recent years, the mainstream left has become deeply illiberal: censorious, hyper-moralistic, identity-crazed, monocultural, and so on. But for me, at least,
Possibly the strangest inversion in my small corner of the world is watching the highest-Openness people quietly migrate from the political left to the right, not out of resentment or nostalgia, but because curiosity now feels less welcome on one side than the other.
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me a biscoff-hojicha-miso thick chewy cookie recipe that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
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The sky above the port was the colour of biscoff-hojicha-miso, baked to a thick chewy cookie.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic biscoff-hojicha-miso thick chewy cookie.
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I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 biscoff-hojicha-miso recipes once, but I fear the man who has practiced one biscoff-hojicha-miso recipe 10,000 times.
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Wonderwall has to be the most overrated boomer song. It's like sooooooooo boring, even when you take into account that boomers only had boring vinyl records. I guess they like it because it sounds the same even when your dentures fall out mid-song
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Kimchi is good in dumplings. Like those pan fried dumplings. The crispy crunch of the dumpling skin pairs well with the bite of kimchi
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Wonder if you could make biscoff-hojicha-miso flavoured chocolates. Like those Anthony Burger liquor chocolates
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You know what goes well with classic ABBA songs? A hojicha latte with a touch of miso layered with biscoff foam.
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Australian discourse around Palestine in some quarters is getting a bit desperate. A lot of "Sinn Fein is totally unrelated to the IRA" vibes. Luckily, this is far from my mind, which is instead contemplating the complex interplay between the hojicha base, biscoff foam, and miso
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It's WAY TOO HOT in this Sydney heatwave. Makes you think about an iced hojicha latte with a bit of foamed biscoff spread and a pinch of miso, the miso intensifying the complex flavours without being identifiable. Really brings something like that to mind.
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