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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

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Here’s “Creep” but it’s about using two factor authentication (2fa) on all your accounts

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@federalreserve.bsky.social Powell provides a Hawkish hedge to his comments. Tariffs larger than expected and Fed’s job to make price hike temporary. That could cause tension between Fed’s Dutra mandate for stable prices & full employment. Ultimately, anything gained in employment when…

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And just like that, the Palo Verdes started to bloom…

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Newsletter for this week is finally out! It's about why The Halting Problem is a bad example of an NP-hard problem, why finding a better example is really damn difficult, and what my choice of a "better example" ends up being. buttondown.com/hillelwayne/...

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The level of blatant, self-dealing corruption here is remarkable, even for Trump.

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Oh shit...

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A new machine learning method efficiently generates accurate labels from imbalanced datasets, enhancing fraud detection in sectors like healthcare and finance without relying on costly labeled data. doi.org/g9fmft

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This is stunning improvement.

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Trust is the oil of the market machine. Without it, the machine seizes. The trust of the US as a reserve currency is eroding. Consequential - hits people’s lives and livelihoods. Hard. And 💔

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Researchers insist that large language models repeatedly translate their mathematical processes into words. There may be a better way. @anilananth.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-lang...

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Just in from @harvard.edu prez Alan Garber, what appears to be "No more Mr. Nice Guy" response to increasing Trump demands. view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=351b45ebf... (Background Trump made $8 billion threat, ostensibly to fight antisemitism; first Harv response was meek; more demands; now this response)

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I would say a raise at 75x revenue is full Fonzi over the shark.

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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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GDP for the first quarter is adding up to be weak. Government spending will be up. That is what we are calculating as well. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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fin.ai/research/age... "Our solution lies in strategically restricting agency through controlled, modular task configurations. ... by emphasizing step-based instructions ... we can achieve higher reliability" Maybe save some electricity and just write a script?

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Tariffs still at historic high

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New Logic for Programmers cover just dropped (Will be added in v0.9)

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Donks like the patchy shade.

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Still Here, by Langston Hughes I been scarred and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!

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🧵 1/ Me and a friend have developed a lil' agent you can ask research questions to, it will use the arXiv API to find relevant papers and respond. It can also summarise recent developments in an area. It's a beta for now, looking for feedback if anyone's keen to do us a favour? shorturl.at/5Pdxq

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arstechnica.com/information-... Bot scraping causes Wikipedia to gen low traffic pages because they miss cache. That is only the first order effect. Second is cache pollution. Legit traffic will miss more often. A huge pct of cache misses are from bots. Cache misses are what seed the cache.

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We call that little bump “Tom’s Thumb.”

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www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/04/1... Two things scare me here: 1) speed and 2) scale. Defense in depth works in part by slowing down attackers and incident response systems are not designed for the diverse and concurrent load these things are going to throw.

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One of the problems of having a guy born in the 1940s as President is that he is trying to build back the 1950s economy. Except we have 2025 technology. Manufacturing today uses fewer workers per item made a trend that is continuing. We also have higher living standards and want higher wages.

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There is a common thread in the Trump admin: don’t actually do the work to make policy. Layoffs, deportations and now tariffs. This “anti-staff” bias is really scary, especially when combined with naive and incompetent leadership.

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What really bugs me is how his chart was labeled and the continued reference to “tariffs charged to the US”. The numbers have literally nothing to do with foreign tariffs. The “worst offenders” are just the countries where our trade deficit is large relative to how much we buy from them.

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Yes, but the answer is not blaming "low information voters" or "economic illiterates." We have to bring people along. One fact at a time. One economic concept at a time. Not in long articles they won't read. Not in shock journalism. Simple ideas, simple answers to questions. Repeated.

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Animals don't belong behind bars. ❌

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Thanks to MAGA innovation, we are staring to see O(1) Godwin convergence, with the constant rapidly approaching 1.

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ICYMI: King’s College London is hiring 20 open-ended posts at L/SL level (Asst/Assoc Prof level) in AI + any subject. (Yes, that includes critical studies.) It’s 3 years of 80% “protected” research time, then 2 years to the standard requirements for an open-ended post. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...

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“The one variable I had never put on my bingo card as an issue is a contract with the federal government” WSJ quote from a farmer getting stiffed by USDA

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The DOGE kiddies accessing private data is an insult to the actual professionals who do the work to set up analyses, tests and development so they don't require illegal and unnecessary access. Pros know how to do this safely. And they understand the programs. Why not have pros do the work?

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The world temporarily has its eye on Myanmar - and the junta can't even conceal its true character for 2 days. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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science.slashdot.org/story/25/03/... This is so painful. I was prepared for worse economic outcomes, but not for this. The global bounty of great minds that we have attracted and developed here for my entire (long) life is being squandered. And for what?

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It would be a treat to work with @chris.wensel.net so if you are #DataEng with flare for #Java #opensource & #devops you may want to look into this

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The DOGE kids seem to be using keyword search to acquire targets. That is like 25 years out of date. Even 10 year old IR tech would reduce collateral damage. Somebody needs to tell Trump his “tech support” is incompetent.

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I wonder if one of the big tech vendors could discreetly provide security awareness training for the Trump administration leadership. They wouldn't even have to call it "training." Especially for the national security leadership. They may not trust their teams, but they might trust a tech co.

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