Machine epsilon
American with bittersweet memories of living in a shining city on a hill. Mathematician. Give em hell Devils. Go Navy. русский военный корабль, иди на хуй. Currently clean on OPSEC. Entropy always wins.
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Machine epsilon
Better ask an AI to reconstruct the text That’s how we got Big Balls after all
New Apple #ML Research Highlight: The "Super Weight:" How Even a Single Parameter can Determine an #LLM's Behavior machinelearning.apple.com/research/the...
lol
Looking forward to flamingos being set loose
Mathematician here I doubt even these idiots can fail at grade school arithmetic so completely On the other hand, performative lying is a common practice of far-right authoritarian regimes
Absolutely nuts. But to be fair I’m not a mathemati- Oh wait I actually am
Ukraine needs to name its military bases after Vladimir Putin and his generals. by Pete Hegseth
I can remember when we made people think that “if we do anything, America will nuke us”
If I recall correctly Guy Mason Park near the russian embassy has an actual chalkboard. I wonder if that is somehow different
Guessing none of these lunatics understand that magnetic fields can’t do work
Time for some hopscotch civil disobedience. Dance D.C.! Dare the fascists and have fun while you do it 💃🕺
The “lol nothing matters” attitude is not *just* bullshit when elites are concerned. There is an important distinction in their case
I’ll take my schadenfreude where I can get it these days
Stay Do the right thing until fired
Nothing matters for the next five years except democracy and truth Everything else is negotiable details
The only beliefs to care about for the next five years have got to be democracy and truth Everything else is details
“Many people are doing”
Mids holding that end zone down in more ways than one rn
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The hitch with a truth and justice reconciliation here would be that our current infestation is *defined* by their lies
Who is this Schumer guy? Never heard of him or from him
I remember Red Storm Rising
Bluesky telling me that I’m a bullshitter
Really hope Navy beats Army in listlessness for once
It is not just that these employees are risking being put on leave or even fired for standing up for science (see EPA/FEMA officials), they are standing in front of a workplace that was the subject of a terrorist attack a couple of weeks ago, by a man who believes what their boss believes.
Cc @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
OK but what about mitochondrial challenges because I’m told that is related to inflammation in kids
If you thought assembling IKEA furniture was hard try safely disassembling some of the stuff you find there
Kakistocracy
IC on the prospects of invasion occurring: A+ IC on prospects for post-invasion: D- on a curve because the curve is so fucked, F otherwise
Well with the stake in Intel ushering in a bold new era of national socialism on top of the previous bold new era for American workers depicted in that banner I guess our current leadership is a national socialist American workers’ party
This is almost like the plot of Live Free or Die Hard except that instead of an evil genius breaking into highly secured cyber and physical environments to get the info some fucking dipshits just put it in the cloud
The Eugenics Wars ended with Khan destroying himself with the Genesis device
Yeah but can a high school student pound a box of Franzia every day
Whoop de fucking doo As if this wasn’t in the manifest interest of any American not bizarrely captivated by a Russia they imagine as too dangerous to fuck with but that would actually flinch if we so much as glared at it
Real things about the Russo-Ukrainian War that sound insane to anyone who doesn't follow it: -The Sudanese front -Ukrainian naval dominance West of Crimea -The Ukrainian strategic bombing campaign from Murmansk to Astrakhan -Ukrainian special operations in Siberia
Apropos of nothing, a reminder that German stock markets kept climbing in an almost uninterrupted fashion in the run-up to WW2. Investors are really, really bad at pricing serious institutional and political risks.
For American Workers
Ride the tiger = watch leopard eat someone else’s face
Not sure if I’m joking
Pence is positioning himself for 2032 if we still have a republic
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org I no longer trust the USSS to follow the law of the land let alone the spirit of the law
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I used to work for IDA and still know folks there FWIW.
Kofman and Lee did a great job counting T-72s on Girkins social to get a ORBAT but did not get Ukraine remotely right. I remember very well.
OK but can you name two military analysts that got Ukraine sufficiently right to not get crapped on by a reasonable observer? I can but only if I bend the definition to a similar extreme
He is correct
EP-3 by Hainan, 2001
Lafayette Park today without even a single submarine sandwich for protection to show support for Ukrainian bravery Still when we realized how reckless we had been with the streets deserted and all the reports of gangs of masked lawless thugs all over NW DC, we immediately went to Potbelly
Mired: will the Army continue to exist in a recognizable form in 5-10 years, or will it be a) Mobile Infantry from Starship Troopers, or b) will the Navy and Air Force be the only branches with any remaining political legitimacy?
Instead of hissy fit you should say “microaggression-triggered unwellness episode”
Stagflation in some form is coming. The trillion-dollar question is whether inflation becomes entrenched paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-econom...
Will read BTW did you take a gander at that graph logistic regression work? Curious to hear your take on
Also FWIW Tom is talking about the *Naval War College* and not even Oberlin
I’m old enough to remember this fuckface acting like Snowden wasn’t another fuckface
But to be fair Frankfurt is boring AF
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How the fuck are these idiot scumbags and Loomer not shitting all over Bradley
First they came for the porn and I did not speak out— Because there was other porn. Then they came for BlueSky—and there was no one left to skeet for me.
It’s like _Vertigo_ but about dads and cool flying instead of obsession
Even though it makes absolutely zero sense
Was at DARPA an hour ago, can confirm
A firsthand example
Merrill Lynch advisor told me yesterday they put the probability of a rate cut in September at 84%. I tried not to laugh.
Perceptions of candor and honesty will be the determinant of who can serve and who is unfit. These can be gotten via background checks and collectively assessed (there are algorithmic ways! This is not a bad thing) as a guide to personnel decisions.
VP got lots of “couchfucker” yelled at him I’m waiting to hear “Epstein” tonight
Well let’s pretend I’m a Fed governor Prices are rising, so don’t cut Labor market is softening, but a cut in this uncertain environment won’t fix that So don’t cut In fact we are gonna speed run Volcker
Biden and Sullivan and Scholz can justifiably take the credit especially once this shit turns into Ukrainian nukes And Taiwanese nukes And Polish nukes And Saudi nukes …
Every encounter between WH and Russia flips these roles
How will Jeanine Pirro cope
Top one screams “this guy. Make me more like this guy” and bottom one screams “Bury us? I’ll bury my boot up your ass you commie fuck”
Wehrabooism is about “those cool Wunderwaffen” (that ofc actually were ineffectual) -> “those cool uniforms” and suddenly it’s Albert Speer time Sublimated fascist aesthetics -> fascism
Don’t leave out the domestic auto-da-fe
Busted clock tells decent time in this case because it really always is “Biden and Sullivan (and ofc Scholz) were idiots who were too scared to seize the greatest strategic and political opportunity of their careers” o’clock
Sloppy Also this is cringe if the kids still say that
Needs to mix it up with random capitalization
Arguably Rawls is a soft/nontechnical anticipator of Thagard
Well Paul Thagard is a huge exception OTOH I’m still waiting to read David Chalmers’ “Could a Large Language Model be Conscious?” because I’m waiting for a time when I need a good laugh