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I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.

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GAAP is simply one step on humanity's long quest for the perfect accounting standards. From recording wheat in the ziggurat, to XLOOKUP, human progress is driven towards our true purpose of counting stuff

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

a tale as old as time, a song as old as rhyme (canadian film/TV edition)

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

God cursed me with a lot of stuff but he did bless me with thinking oatmeal tastes absolutely decadent

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

What the Horus Heresy taught me about b2b SaaS sales 🧵: -The Emperor built a galactic empire through vision and leadership. But it all fell apart when communication broke down with his most trusted general. The #1 lesson for SaaS sales? Never lose touch with your key accounts.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

This is the hardest I’ve ever been owned online

submitted 21 days ago • 824 comments

FAFO

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

The Chicago Pope implies the existence of a New Keynesian Pope and a Behavioral Pope

submitted 29 days ago • 54 comments

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

submitted 29 days ago • 40 comments

applying for jobs again

submitted 32 days ago • 147 comments

(trying to follow too many news stories at once) black smoke means the cardinals aren't raising the interest rate

submitted 30 days ago • 13 comments

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Subaru Canada will source more of its vehicles from Japan rather than the U.S. Vehicles come into Canada tariff-free from Japan due to a free-trade agreement between the two countries. #cdnpoli #uspoli driving.ca/auto-news/in...

submitted 36 days ago • 15 comments

Mark Carney will surpass the prime ministerial tenure of Liz Truss on Saturday.

submitted 38 days ago • 19 comments

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

submitted 38 days ago • 20 comments

Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada

submitted 38 days ago • 207 comments

sure thing, here's just a sampling of the current applications of LLMs (ignoring, for a moment, the obvious use cases like "please summarize this PDF", "transcribe this meeting", etc. for now) described in the recent literature.

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My own favourite April 23 fact is that both Shakespeare and Cervantes died on April 23 1616, ten days apart.

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

counting humans and especially counting attitudes within humans is so fucking hard and I think the main thing that non social scientists don't get. this isn't lab sciences where you can just count how many blips come out of the machine and it automatically spits out a clean dataset.

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

I'm grateful to the the Romans for killing Jesus and giving us the Easter Bunny

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

An astronomy professor colleague of mine once relayed trying to explain to his students why it was important that they actually write their class reports themselves. “The point is not to teach ME about neutron stars,” he said.

submitted 52 days ago • 44 comments

i think that settles it, complete superiority of parliamentary systems.

submitted 52 days ago • 16 comments