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When I worked at a Title 1 public school we begged them to get rid of cellphones, made learning impossible
They refused until cellphones were used to capture multiple prison-riot style fights and sex acts in the bathroom that ended up on the news
Schools aren’t banning cellphones because of education, they don’t care
They’re banning them because they’re revealing that public schools are prisons and abuse factories
Gerard Pinzone retweeted
I got this joke when I was 8.
The internet revealed to me that there are now 20 years old who don’t get it.
Gerard Pinzone retweeted
Programmers, engineers, and mathematicians who hate AI loved solving puzzles not problems.
Gerard Pinzone retweeted
As an aside, IQ strongly correlates with walking speed.
The correlation is, like, extremely significant. There are essentially zero outliers.
Top quintile walkers are a full standard deviation smarter than bottom quintile walkers.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
A 2019 Dunedin study reports moderate correlation (β=0.38) between midlife IQ and gait speed with ~16-point mean quintile difference. "Essentially zero outliers" does not match this association's strength.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
Gerard Pinzone retweeted
Let’s get this straight: at 2:30 a.m., a 71-year-old man wanders the freeway. A Tesla on FSD avoids him well, only skimming his side, but another car hits and kills him. What’s going on with these stories flooding the news?
Gerard Pinzone retweeted
This was my Picard/3 lights moment
5th grade the teacher gave us this question
Everyone except me got it wrong, including her
She got the whole class to "explain" it to me
Math is just logic, there is no ambiguity, I could not see their answer
Then she assigned a girl to take me aside and lecture me
Most Soviet experience of my life, including my north Korea trip
At parent/teacher conference she told my folks that she thought about it later that night and realized I was right
Never said anything to me or apologized in front of the class
In a free society she would have been put against the wall for doing what she did to a kid
Gerard Pinzone retweeted
The American auto industry in the 70s and 80s didn’t lose on engineering. It lost on headcount.
Elon told this old joke on Rogan:
Japanese boat: eight people rowing, one steering.
American boat: one person rowing, eight steering.
They lose. Fire the rower.
That was Detroit. It’s also most companies now. Layers of people who want to decide, not enough people who just want to finish. Meetings pile up, the work slows, and the last person still doing something gets blamed.
The ones who actually row are usually the ones who end up gone.
Gerard Pinzone retweeted
at least eMudhra gave us a new fact that people preparing for time travel can memorise
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The takeaway of this php thing should not be “the world is ending today”.
Rather it should be “the software status quo was bad, and you should assume 70% of the Internet is already rooted by one three letter agency. AI helped us catch this and remove it from ongoing risk”
Gerard Pinzone retweeted
Amazing how quickly we went from "oh no LLMs are going to flood the Internet with insecure code" to "oh no LLMs have discovered the internet was already flooded with insecure code"
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Plastic is ugly because it’s cheap. That’s to say it lets people who would never be allowed to work with expensive materials become creators. AI is similar. It lets anyone become an animator, and all they make is super heroes smashing into each other.
Gerard Pinzone retweeted
It would probably be good to put a moratorium on humanities PhDs for a while. Some subjects are just played out - we don’t need another analysis of Hamlet. This pressure always to say something new - like it’s a discovery in the natural sciences - drives a lot of bad scholarship.
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Friday we posted the video about the guy’s @Tesla saving him from prison… 4 days and 8M views later, the cop has now been fired.
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Most of our genetic data is human-centric, which makes sense. But whole genome data has way more power when used outside humans. Many biotechs are academia 2.0 and don't approach the indsutry like a company and instead everything just focuses on pharma pay days like 23andme.
If you look in the beef cattle industry. It is still rare for someone to use arrays that cost $50 even much kess genome sequencing. We could have so much better beef. Pets are constantly being breed with genetic diseases or are so inbred that they have issues. No breeders I have talked to use any genetics. In the horse world, people spend $1M or more on a horse and don't sequence it. there existed like 400 genomes of racing horse breeds before we started even then none of them were high end performance horses.
There are uses for genome data, we are just looking in all the wrong places.
