Tom Fiddaman
@tomfid
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Bozeman, MT, USA
Joined December 2008
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.” --Dwight Eisenhower, June 14, 1953.
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Audits in Utah, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, and Georgia found a few dozen possible noncitizen registrants out of millions—and virtually no voting. Trump’s claim that noncitizens are swinging elections is false, says Cato’s @stephen_richer. https://t.co/13ky0NqACJ
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Excellent commentary that goes deep into what I've noticed about Polymarket, where you can bet on temperature this month or next (useless - basically noise) but not next year or next decade, which might have some insurance value.
Recently I have been starting to worry about the state of prediction markets, in their current form. They have achieved a certain level of success: market volume is high enough to make meaningful bets and have a full-time job as a trader, and they often prove useful as a
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HAPPY VALENTINES DAY❤️ Here is Ahn Trio's Happy Valentine's Day Playlist:
open.spotify.com
Playlist · varalli · 25 items
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2022: It's so over in the Bay Area. Miami is the future. 2026:
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Can't wait to get a look at this!
It was an intellectual joyride working with Terry Tao on his first popular math book SIX MATH ESSENTIALS. In stores Oct 27, now available for preorder: https://t.co/thysR1Vjtm
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Centralization of power into a one-party state seems to be the MT GOP's primary activity.
Hey does anyone else remember the Legislature passing a law this session that basically gives the AG full jurisdiction over most of Helena? For "safety"? Wonder what that is going to be used for. https://t.co/kUNMvjsodU
#mtpol #mtleg
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We’ve lost over 10,000 STEM PhDs from the federal workforce in a single year. 10,000. Never thought the U.S. would ever allow this type of brain drain to occur - but here we are.
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Measles, like smallpox before it, could be globally eradicated using existing vaccines. Instead, many people turn their back on the vaccine and invite it back into their lives.
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A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks. Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in
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The silence of Montana's congressional delegation says they support government murder with impunity, but they don't support legal carry under the 2nd amendment. That's about as anti-liberty as it gets. How about it, @RyanZinke @SteveDaines @RepTroyDowning @TimSheehyMT
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Cool #systemdynamics
Triple inverted pendulum in transition control A classic control problem, done in real time. This setup moves smoothly between all eight equilibrium points of a triple inverted pendulum. The system reacts every 1 millisecond, which shows how fast modern control loops can be.
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I don't think holding states at gunpoint was what the framers of the constitution had in mind.
President Trump should offer to reduce the number of ICE officers in MN to fewer than 100. In return, MN’s leaders must promise to turn over illegals in MN jails and prisons to ICE. MN police must arrest violent illegals and turn them over to ICE. If MN won’t do it, they’re
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This is ludicrous revisionist history. Trump ignored COVID warnings and pronounced that it would go away on its own soon - 38 times!
cnn.com
Since February, the president has declared at least 38 times that Covid-19 is either going to vanish or is currently vanishing.
Today the United States withdrew from the so-called World Health Organization. WHO ignored early COVID warnings from Taiwan in 2019 by pretending Taiwan did not exist. It ignored rigorous science and promoted lockdowns. The United States will continue international
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Wow. This looks like an amazing project. Scholars at UMichigan have recently collected a massive dataset of over 1.1M podcast transcripts that is largely comprehensive of all English language podcasts. Using this data, they conduct an investigation into the content,
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Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look — the numbers are staggering. It's our Spotify Wrapped "War on Science" edition https://t.co/YVuyoyunwQ
nature.com
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
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Why would they only share the first frame? Here’s the whole version
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I hope so, but the damage will persist for years.
The US Congress is poised to reject the huge and unprecedented cuts to science sought by the administration of US President Donald Trump https://t.co/PBEs3yejoC
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Checking this out ...
Just out: A fresh, slightly extended look at Causal Loop Diagramming (CLD+), which might eventually inspire new modeling workflows. #systemdyanmics #CLDplus
@systemdynamics_ @tomfid
https://t.co/gSeO9dynAf
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