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AI x News | Creator of aiportrait.wsj.com | Author of alignedforesight.substack.com
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busted.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

We used AI to analyze Trump's second inaugural speech against his past rhetoric. The results revealed surprising shifts in tone and messaging - and show promise for a new, less partisan way to study political rhetoric.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

idk, revive local news?

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

🗳️ Excited to launch Show Me The Ballot – a tool for voters to access their sample ballot in seconds and see how complex it is. Ready for Election Day? Try it out here: show-me-the-ballot.glitch.me

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

Hey all! My latest post in Aligned Foresight analyzes recent political debates using fine-tuned language models to find those revealing moments when candidates break character. Take a look if you're interested in how AI can be used in new ways to understand political discourse:

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

Working to get my mile under 5/millionths of a second

submitted 201 days ago • 0 comments

Hey y’all! Excited to launch Aligned Foresight—my newsletter on forecasting, machine learning, and politics. If you're interested in exploring ways we can predict and improve the future of democracy, check out my first post!

submitted 205 days ago • 0 comments

"She put out," Trump said. "I read that she was not Black, that she put out...and I'll say that." It took me three times watching The Guardian's debate highlights to catch that Trump did say that.

submitted 241 days ago • 1 comment

Not seeing RFK’s potential endorsement for what it could have been will go down as a big blunder in the part of the Harris-Walz campaign. What’s one cabinet seat? They shrank their big tent to spite the Kennedy reject, but it’s hubris to think they won’t need all the help they can get to beat Trump

submitted 262 days ago • 1 comment

Humans want one thing and one thing only and it’s to transcend their mortal coil

submitted 274 days ago • 0 comments

The dust is settling for battleground polling averages. PA has an early lead as most decisive state in most models. However that could still change. Harris ought to wait until the turning point state ranking stabilizes if she wishes to make the most strategic VP choice. www.cnn.com/2024/08/03/p...

submitted 280 days ago • 0 comments

People are always strangely surprised at the effect near-death experiences have on people

submitted 297 days ago • 1 comment

Dick Hamming writing about "scale is all you need"... in 1997. (from the Art of Doing Science and Engineering) Is a large enough number conscious?

submitted 297 days ago • 0 comments

Raised private gardens like these are destroying whatever was left of the fabric of the American city.

submitted 298 days ago • 0 comments

Today on Architecture-Bluesky: * Guy bought a church as his home and converted the balcony into a library * Another guy is doing archival research to landmark midcentury homes * Sam Altman spent $27M on a shoddily built home that got flooded by his infinity pool I love this app

submitted 298 days ago • 3 comments

Progress on "Frontier Beat," my prototype tracking trending Github repos mentioning "Arxiv": Data pipelines laid, arXiv and GitHub linked, and star counts ticking in Postgres. All orchestrated via Airflow. A small step towards hopefully making cutting-edge NLP research more accessible! 🚀

submitted 299 days ago • 0 comments

Would you lock yourself in a Skinner box if it actualized your best self?

submitted 304 days ago • 4 comments