Craig Ogg
@cogg
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If you thought biology couldn't get any weirder, life finds a way: "We term females exhibiting this reproductive mode as xenoparous, meaning they give birth to other species as part of their life cycle."
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This is wild
excited to finally share on arxiv what we've known for a while now: All Embedding Models Learn The Same Thing embeddings from different models are SO similar that we can map between them based on structure alone. without *any* paired data feels like magic, but it's real:🧵
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This is crazy. People commented with things bots are attracted to and they rushed in. This seems like it should be addressable through shadow banning but that clearly isn’t happening
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🔥 New Post: Announcing InAppBrowser - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser 👀 TikTok, when opening any website in their app, injects tracking code that can monitor all keystrokes, including passwords, and all taps. https://t.co/TxN1ezZX71
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"ceiling" is a gerund. what the fuck. "ceil" is a middle english word meaning "to cover," related to "conceal." did everyone know this but me. how long have i been blind to the truth
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This is crazy. And the pandemic as experimental proof that individual actions aren’t enough to have impact is enlightening.
Fun fact: the individual responsibility narrative was quite literally the oil industry's doing.
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Speed of light: it's slower than you think.
Speed of light
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"makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java [...] reconfigures stock GCC to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and the tiniest footprint imaginable" !
Cosmopolitan v0.1 Released
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Weirdly, I’m one of those people who has trouble focusing in the wake of presidentially sanctioned insurrection.
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I love this guy’s data visualizations, especially about COVID trends:
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I found the tone of this tweet shocking enough to spend time determining whether the account was real. It appears to be. #ugh2020
Our tweets are approved by career ethics attorneys and thankfully no longer overseen by you. @Interior increased the number ethics staff by 250% to remove the rotten stench from the blatant failure of the prior administration to invest in the ethics program.
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Those who know the truth despair.
This paper shows that learning about how your firm works is equivalent to gaining Lovecraftian Secret Knowledge. Promising managers asked to do process redesign at their firm learn how messed up it all is, so they give up rising careers & become hermits at the edges of the firm
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"BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DEFUND THE POLICE?" "Hi, Mr. Brooks. I'm w/ The Dept. of You OK? So, you OK? Looks like you fell asleep in your car. Lemme get you a ride home. I'll be by your home tomorrow to check on you. Here's my number. Looks like your ride's here. Good night, sir."
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Ugh
EXCLUSIVE: The DEA has been granted sweeping authority to “conduct covert surveillance” on people protesting over George Floyd’s death, a secret memo reveals
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Dad: “ask the woman in your phone” Sis: “Dad, Siri doesn’t know everything”
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Solid advice on fixing erroneous things on your credit report: https://t.co/4zX3VK6p2O This is what adding value looks like.
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