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Communist. Not a Luddite. I love Wheel of Time. I follow ML + AI (incl. GOFAI) research avidly, post-viral syndrome research less avidly, all other research as needed. Same name on Twitter + Threads. She/her. Autistic.
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Responding to the launch of Sputnik in 1957 & other early Russian rocket successes, James Burnham in National Review took the "just asking question" approach to sow doubts about whether there was proof the Russians did anything at all. An early example of a now familiar conspiratorialism

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The upside down Delta landing is a useful reminder that while the airplane-mode admonition is fake, the seatbelt sign definitely isn't.

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When Mother gets mad. Channeling 3.0 going down well. Upgraded threads and flows with ‘weaves’ now introduced. Wait until you see the Male Corruption. All expertly crafted for us on the show by the one and only @Framestore. Take a bow #TheWheelOfTime #WoTSkies

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even Chesmal Fuckin Emry was like “wtf” 😭 #WotSkies #WotShowPromo #WotShowSpoilers

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Editor: You get those photos of that Mangione character's first court appearance? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what

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I'd seen the asteroid probability numbers over the past few days but hadn't seen the actual probability distribution animated like this. Makes it clearer why the probability went up and then down.

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you can vaguely tweet about that one thing you want to happen to that one guy and everyone knows what you mean

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is it me or is this kinda good

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if musk survives this trump term you can go ahead and put the whole of the CIA out to pasture

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the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

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Slaw is such a perfect name for a dish that looks like that

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That opening tease for #TheWheelOfTime season 3 was insane. We are so back! Today felt like a good day to reflect on the show's long game approach to adapting the books, and how it earned my trust for the long haul with a decision I thought I hated for half of last season. #wotskies

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Me when I drop chocolate and the dog jumps up

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how is trump doing all these things. where is the parliamentarian

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As of this morning the probability that the asteroid 2024 YR4 fill hit the Earth has dropped to 0.27% cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/detai...

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#WotSkies #TheWheelofTime

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Red Ajah thinking she's so hard: "I've killed your Warders, I'll kill you too 😈" Green Ajah somehow: "Jokes on you, I'm into that shit 😩🤤😃" Red Ajah: "😧😧😧" #WoTSkies #WoTShowSpoilers #WheelOfTime

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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Shocked at this result on X so PSA: you can absolutely infer causality without an RCT, with natural experiments, RDD, IV, and more. Some examples where observational evidence has been key - Smoking causes cancer - Earth orbits the Sun - Seatbelt effectiveness - CO2 causes global warming

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I asked Rafe about this opening #TheWheelofTime Season 3 scene during our junket interview because I COULD NOT believe how long it goes on. Just absolutely "bonkers," as he once described:

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The first 11 minutes of season 3 are up now on Amazon Prime! Enjoy an exclusive sneak peak.

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Imagine doing literally anything other than watching the Wheel of Time season 3 preview clip on repeat that they just released on Amazon Prime #WoTSkies

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Holy shit the #WheelOfTime teaser was so fucking amazing! I think you don't even need an account to watch it so go take a look if you haven't, it's incredible

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The good news is i saved you 60 billion dollars. The bad news is that is a typo i saved you 600 dollars and also your plane is falling out of the sky

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democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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Everyone who works with data has had the experience early in their career of "finding something huge," getting excited, blasting out an email to a bunch of important people, then sheepishly realizing you just didn't understand the system and retracting it.

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we don't need a butlerian jihad. the computers aren't this way ontologically. it's the real people making them evil who are the problem

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Hmmm

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Apple researchers studied when to distill a smaller AI model from a larger one vs. when to fine-tune directly. Findings : • Distillation is best when compute is limited or training multiple models • Fine-tuning wins when data is abundant • A teacher that’s too smart can hinder learning 🩺🖥️ #MLSky

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