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ML hobbyist old books & movies nuance enjoyer thinking about thinking, mostly
Joined June 2025
Federalist 1 is so ominous. People are greedy and stupid, even the wisest among you fighting for the best causes will drag in ambition and partisanship. And for some reason fate has set up America as a test of whether or not mankind will ever be capable of transcending its flaws
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people are running on heuristics all the time. you ask them to look at the data and they're like. but what am i gonna do with all these heuristics.
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weird that there are great jazz albums and great rock albums. but if you want to listen to 80s synthpop no album is better than any "best of the 80s" compilation.
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oh ok this is the line then, you can't use the word maga or democrats but red or blue is ok.
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for the record this was not a real request just made it up for illustration.
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"why would a land war in europe be so bad for america anyway". history education has failed us.
@McFaul No. You go ahead and explain why we are paying for the Estonian or Czech militaries. Why were we doing that?. When was the one time in history that Russia actually attacked westward?. When they were talked into it by the United States. Why are we paying for Eastern European.
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does it really feel like we have 5x as many inventions today as in 2004?. are patent counts a measure of technological progress or just of litigiousness.
China's innovation surge is shredding to pieces the myth that free-market capitalism is a prerequisite for innovation. Sure, there is a thriving private sector in China. But the state — not the capitalists — ultimately controls the direction of investment in China.
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people think this is the best it will get when this is actually the worst it will ever be.
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friend moved into new subdivision 80% of the roofs have solar. with a battery it covers most single home energy needs minus maybe an ev. perovskite is continuing to push up efficiency. what happens when one rooftop's panels can generate enough electricity for five homes? fifty?.
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RT @tracewoodgrains: @ElijahRavitz @RealConbo once you've departed from actual law into the realm of "theoretically a rogue prosecutor coul….
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the occasional spelling errors from gpt5 are fascinating, 'viktorian' like someone who has studied dozens of languages and now some of the conventions from eastern european are creeping into his english
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during the next election what will the dem candidate publicly promise to roll back and what will they quietly continue?. like obviously the republican candidate will keep it all. but dems have this strategic choice issue by issue. e.g. biden did not push for new trade agreements.
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