Sphexish Quine

There’s a lot of alpha in using Greek letters to say simple things and sound smart.

Karen Attiah was friends with Jamal Khashoggi and recruited him to work at the Washington Post a little over a year before he was murdered for his political views. She wrote a book about him that has never been published. It might be time.

SO MANY KIDS used to die Improvements in sanitation and vaccines were big, but pasteurization had a big impact too Pasteurization wasn't mandatory in the US until after WWII (exact year depends on the state)

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Remember how Trump’s first term was a constant rolling disaster, but people thought they could survive it and wait it out, all until disaster struck at the beginning of the third year and the gutted federal government no longer had the resources to handle it?

The Cat Bowl is when the four feline NFL teams are in a tournament group (Bengals, Panthers, Lions, Jaguars) A Bird Bowl involves the Eagles, Seahawks, Ravens, Cardinals, Falcons There are two teams named after horses (Colts and Broncos) Do the Buffalo Bills count as being named after buffalo?

In Claude you can set a goal with /goal which is intended for settings like "/goal keep working until you finish this feature" I find myself more often saying "/goal keep working until 11pm on Thursday" which works fine I have two sessions like that right now I am a terrible manager

In January 2000, at the peak of the dot-com bubble, AOL and Time Warner merged. At $183 billion, it was by far the largest merger ever at that time. By 2003, the whole structure had collapsed, with $100 billion in annual losses - also the largest corporate losses ever.

the game city is getting pretty good. i'm just having claude iterate over buildings in the city and make custom models for as many as possible that are either tall or unique. you can even ride the little gondola to salesforce park

Ok an important question- What should I call the bike food delivery game? Something with panniers or forks? Right now the repo is called “Dandyhorse” but I don’t think most people know that was an old timey word for bicycle

Can LLMs do arithmetic? Marvin Minsky proved in 1969 that no single-layer neural network could do a simple XOR, which you’d need for any arithmetic This arguably caused the “AI Winter,” a roughly 20 year halt to AI research The proof applies to single layer networks though - LLMs have 20+ layers

I tried injecting the pumpkin spice GLP-1, and they took me to the chocolate mint ICU and had to give me a mocha defibrillator because my EKG went flat white

When the President talks to Grok Does he ever think that maybe he’s not? (Paging Bright Eyes)

The Metaculus Cup is a quarterly competition for predicting future events, like “Who will win the Nobel Peace Prize?” or “Will the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool be repaired?” (It’s not betting, no real money is involved) For the first time, the top two spots this year went to AIs