Temporarily a Napoleon-themed account. Live-tweeting my way through the Andrew Roberts biography

Washington, DC
Joined January 2009
The math that powers LLMs is pretty straightforward and definitely not conscious. If you don't understand it, but you're curious and want to learn, I made a simple walkthrough of the process using a snippet from one of Napoleon's early letters to Josephine youtu.be/PxgMkhQzQt0?si=LQjF…
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Message from a reader: “I’m morally opposed to paying higher taxes to lower the tickets for people who almost kill me in their cars every day.”
There's been a flurry of talk this month in the D.C. Council about whether parking and traffic fines should be reduced. But the reality is that making tickets cheaper for drivers will be costly for the city, and that could complicate any real action: washingtonsun.com/metro/dc-r…
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Here’s to AI-generated code. The cause of, and solution to, all life’s problems
New on our Frontier Red Team blog: using Claude to formally verify software at large scale. Formal verification can prove that code is free of certain bugs, but historically it has only been feasible for small codebases (or required a lot of expert time). With AI models, however, this is beginning to change. In collaboration with @theoremlabs, we used Claude to prove security properties in over one hundred real-world open-source libraries over the span of a few weeks. Read our research in full here: anthropic.com/research/forma…
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unfortunately one major factor is that cars have grown 3x in size and have worse visibility than a literal tank
apologies if this is super naive but just asking bc im curious. is there anything different about raising a kid now in 2026 versus in the 80s that warrants them needing more supervision? like when my dad was like 8 he'd wander around the city alone most of the time. i'm asking bc when i have kids, i dont want to have to supervise them 24/7. i feel like that's very demanding on parents. why cant independent play be more of then norm? is it a cultural thing? or is the world more dangerous now than it used to be?
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Spreading joy and good cheer today by sending this to all my mom group chats and asking “alright which one of you ladies was this"
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me when a normal friend asked how my day on the Computer was
>"So basically the entire Internet runs on PHP and today they found some critical secu-" >"Honey, please shut the fuck up."
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it’s real. The Eurotrip flight of legend
So it begins, EasyJet 43KU (Airbus A320) currently inbound Glasgow with a minimum of eight passengers vomiting in the cabin.
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This is why I don’t gamble at cards
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Is this mathematically the most bingo tiles you can have on a card without a bingo??
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okay I think it was totally unnecessary to film this woman who's crying for probably totally unrelated reasons, but MY CREDIT CARD IS ATTACHED TO MY SEAT NUMBER, I am absolutely the hell not moving
This possessiveness over seats is mean-spirited. Unless you've paid, it isn't hurting you to switch. Groups that initially picked seats together get split up after booking or simply never give you a chance to get them. Spending hours listening to tears to prove a point is weak.
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I don't even care if I'm sitting next to your toddler. Toddlers love me and I will keep them totally entertained the whole flight. They'll behave better for a strange lady than for their own mom too. Go have a drink, watch an adult movie and enjoy your toddler-free flight!
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this also very much applies to heterosexual relationships btw
I call this the diva's paradox if you tell your manager you have complete conviction in an idea, and they tell you "no," and your response is anything OTHER than leaving the company to do it yourself, you are signaling to them that you don't actually have conviction in the idea. if you're not willing to bet your career on the idea, why should they? but then if you DO quit to pursue the idea yourself, your manager will get the message that they should take the idea seriously, but it's too late, you've already quit so you need a way to credibly signal that you have a burn-it-all-down level of conviction in your idea without actually quitting enter: the tantrum
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Personally I would simply not move back to the same place every single one of my ancestors risked almost certain death to flee at the first opportunity
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Sorry you guys all had to learn the hard way that America’s great, but better late than never i guess
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after watching this i think my gender identity might be best described as “heterosexual masc lesbian”
I’ve always felt this would make Love is Blind a better show. Every season should have a decoy butch or twink.
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Remember the time a transit community engagement consultant wrote an article about visiting Amsterdam to see how they built transit infrastructure and was shocked and offended that they didn’t do “community engagement”?
Illinois Metra released a *3 year timeline* to study *how they should do the study* for the *renovation* of a single station, including 2 years of community engagement for the study’s study
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I love getting these windows into what I’d be like if my second X chromosome hadn’t disabled the gene that makes you like video games
there is a certain personality type which will play Civilization or Factorio 14 hours a day pausing only to sleep and microwave food. this type can be absurdly economically productive if you can take the games away, give him a job, and get him to think of it as a videogame
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you’re never going to believe who else also did this
One of Bismarck’s trademark habits was to openly weep and wail and threaten to resign, harm or kill himself when he was not getting his way with the Kaiser. He would genuinely throw tantrums and cry and on one such occasion walked up to an open window and threatened to jump.
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Dude at this NWDC coffee shop has several stickers on his laptop that may as well be the official seal of a certain 3 letter agency. Why would you do that in this city. That’s like wearing a band t-shirt to the concert
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I can only assume he’s visiting from out of town idk
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idk how widespread this is, but back when I was hiring for a pretty basic data analytics/engineering role that really just required some fluency with Python and SQL, HR would tell me all the time with a straight face they just couldn't find any marginally qualified resumes for me to even look at. And when I got frustrated and asked to see some resumes they thought "weren't qualified" it became clear there was a huge disconnect
During a business trip I heard about multiple companies who are struggling to hire people. Jobs available but they can't fill them. There is a huge disconnect in the job market somewhere- the systems responsible for efficient and effective recruitment have completely failed.
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I don't actually blame them for this; it's really hard to understand what makes a resume "qualified" for a job you've never done and don't understand. And they were doing the first pass at management's request, because no one wants to spend time out of their day reviewing a stack of resumes that include a lot of people who genuinely aren't qualified at all. But I think you or your team kinda have to put in the grunt work if you want to hire good people.
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