deeply-stated.bsky.social
Data Scientist mainly doing data engineering. Pythonista. Constantly playing with shiny new toys to see what's worth adding to the toolbox. High functioning autist. Chicagoan from Detroit.
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Every nation without nukes is going to start a bidding war for the nuclear scientists fleeing as Trump tries to defund science.
No one will ever disarm again. No more JCPOAs. Just ratcheting up until nukes leak onto the black market.
I'd better make a point to start enjoying life more.
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Bush v Gore interrupted that streak, so I'd say it's more we had 1968 to 2000, and maybe we've had democracy at a national level since 2004.
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Then you know the truth about how often people read more than the headline and first paragraph.
Please, inform as many readers as possible. Make headlines candid.
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I wouldn't mind seeing Elon do a cameo on corncob tv.
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Classic Peter
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Your morals permit being ignorant and hostile to people online about things you don't remotely understand?
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If you can't build faster and better with Claude, that's a skill issue.
I'm a staff data engineer. I write code and tests every day. I know exactly what to ask for, so LLMs are very helpful. Here's a good resource to help you grow.
simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/...
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LLMs are transformer-based AI.
You should check out this book; it's very approachable (well, to data scientists/engineers). You'd appreciate seeing how LLMs capture so much of the signal encoded in language.
Claude is a massive aid in coding so LLMs aren't going away and are worth understanding.
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I'm reminded of Breaking Bad, after Walter killed Mike and Mike's 9 guys were all in jail, so Walter hired the Aryan Brotherhood to kill all 9.
If Dems were going to form such a Justice for Trump unit, you'd want to keep it under wraps until after Dems retake power, for the safety of the lawyers.
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Dems should just let Trump completely own this, stay quiet now, and then in election season point to the strong economies under Obama and Biden and the messes under Bush, Trump, and Trump.
If a lot of congressional Repubs defect to us, we can reclaim tariff power, but otherwise, it's Trump's show.
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Yeah, the DoJ's rep should be held in contempt until Albrego is returned to the US mainland.
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Nah, Trump wouldn't want to keep the story alive.
I bet this investigation means people in the Pentagon want to stomp out Signal usage before it starts causing actual mission failures that cost our troops their lives.
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That's how they got Al Capone.
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One of my favorite podcasters was a DOJ trial attorney and quit last year because he didn't want to work under a second Trump admin. Per his episode on that, ~50% of DOJ lawyers have quit and the doubled workload on those remaining is driving more out.
open.spotify.com/episode/38xI...
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Yeah, how did Goldberg get these top Trump officials to use an illegal insecure communication channel for this conversation?
I wonder how many other times Goldberg got them to use Signal to violate the Espionage Act and Federal Records Act?
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The more revealing part is that he knew he was not communicating on an approved secure govt channel. Thus, he wasn't talking about OpSec of the mission against the Houthis, he meant OpSec against Federal Records Act document retention requirements.
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The mistake was doing this outside of the secure government communication channels, in violation of both the Espionage Act and the Federal Records Act.
Adding a journalist to the chat is not the big mistake here.
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It's still the top story on the NYT app after nearly 24 hours.
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Meritocracy AF
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Yeah.
$2,176B in income taxes were collected in 2023. $1.3B in back taxes is only 0.06% of 2023's income tax revenue. Maybe it would have increased nonlinearly as the IRS grew, but 0.06% is ... underwhelming.
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Hmm, $1.1B (up from $0.038B, for a specific high earning segment) seems pretty underwhelming considering how many IRS agents Biden hired (~17k net added since 2023).
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Well, most Americans aren't doing anything about what's currently going on. A lot of people who follow the news closely can't find the will to do more than vote every other year.
It's good that we be reminded that we have a responsibility to act, or at least call our representatives.
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Yeah, and in the amount of time it takes to vote, you could play three games of pool? Three! Now that's fresh.
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Twitter used to be just mountains full of this gold, back when people did it for the love of the game.
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So, in the future, how do we warn people that a path leads to fascism?
I was in high school when we went to war in Iraq and I was on board at first because I trusted that leaders weren't fascist and wouldn't send 1000s of Americans to die and spend $Ts killing a 100ks of people for no good reason.
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Is anyone pressing Trump on his plan for transitory economic pain?
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Very cool find! I saw that design in a witchy little boutique (Black Mercantile) in Portland a few months back and liked it so much I made a note of the designer (LA Soul).
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I'm confused, I thought the post was asserting support for the label "Latinx" or for police abolition demonstrated support for human dignity.
I was responding on that understanding, as imposing unwelcome labels or policies on real people against their wishes is an attack on human dignity.
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Describing Latino/a people as "Latinx" is like intentionally using the wrong pronouns for 96% of the time.
www.pewresearch.org/race-and-eth...
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I can't be the only person who experienced 2020.
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Despite today's injunction on the firing of probationary employees?
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I was showing respect to your experience by asking some questions I was interested in. You responded by telling me to duck off. Have a nice day and I hope your retirement is lovely.
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I'd check the list of people Simon Willison is following, then the list of people following SimonW. His blog is delightful.
simonwillison.net
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Ok, but if you're in fraud detection, you're going to stop the fraud/identify theft you detect (true positives) but you won't be aware of the fraud you fail to detect (false negatives).
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What a rude and incorrect determination.
And as a data scientist who has also worked in fraud detection, I know the detection methods have improved a lot in the past quarter century.
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No, I just think at least one of the 11 million undocumented people would attempt to collect free money, so I was incredulous at the claim that it never happens.
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So no undocumented American ever submitted a claim using a citizen's identity? Are the safeguards that robust? How many citizens' valid claims are rejected?
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So, regarding 3, why do you think this is *the easiest issue to solve*?
Solving housing means simultaneously solving school segregation and devaluing the assets compromising the bulk of many Americans' wealth.
America wouldn't look like this if it were easy.
www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/201...
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At present, the law states Trump has absolute immunity to order the assassination of his political opponents and of any prosecutors who pursue his assassins.
Law in the US has been captured and corrupted. We need to build public support for a deep, durable reformation of the courts and their power.
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It only helps Trump if it's not yet true that law (as a tool to constrain behaviors in society) is broken and ineffective.
If law actually doesn't constrain socially malignant behavior, then diagnosing that condition is vital.
Is law a constraint if Trump can fire those who administer the law?
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Someone should put together a "humorless scolds" starter pack
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I don't know. If Dems or courts don't clamp this down ASAP, Trump2 folks will have done things that would carry real, carceral penalties if Dems regained any oversight power. If there's a real prospect of Dem oversight, I think the long knives (maybe political, maybe physical) will come out.
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Look, Trump has been so effective at satisfying some need that his customers elevated him to the presidency and donate $100Ms to his shitcoins. Some of his customers are suckers, but most of them see clearly what Trump's selling and they're happy to buy (so facts won't change their minds).