Christopher D. Long
@octonion
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Data science and optimization. Ex-San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers, Houston Rockets. Google Foobar winner. He/him. [email protected]
Lexington, KY
Joined September 2009
Isaac Newton didn't learn calculus until he was in his 20s.
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@gregeganSF Agreed. AI engines might still be useful if you get to a level where you can spot flaws in the reasoning.
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@ThomasJPenn The Russian GNI per capita is only 14250 USD (vs over 80K for the US), and has significantly underperformed under Putin.
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Little chance any of them even understand the basic theory underlying relational databases.
Decent chance the kids he has writing the SQL just fucked up when joining the tables and didn't check that their join keys were valid.
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Everything in theory should be smaller and more efficient. And taste better. And be less filing. But these aren't well-thought-out ideas or plans, just simple-minded platitudes to justify anything for any reason, and without regard for even extreme harm or consequences.
Hey @Jason , when did you interview me on stage and we talked about transparently cutting out all the intermediary bureaucracy, and increasing the amount paid to people who qualified for support programs by half of the savings ? Was it 2010 ? The question is not whether government needs to be smaller. Or whether it needs to be more efficient. It does. The question is why isn’t Elon sharing Everything that is happening in real time. Think of it as information and data for future generations. “How did elon and doge actually cut costs and improve efficiency. What exactly were the steps he took ?” “We have no idea. He wouldn’t let any independent parties document, review and provide feedback. In fact he criticized anyone who tried to”
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@ThomasJPenn You'll have to explain why Russians are much worse off under Putin, and how murdering thousands of Russians and Ukrainians helps Russians. Even the Russian oligarchs refuse to live in Russia.
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RT @ghostofchristo1: It’s worth revisiting Ryan Ruby’s article on how Twitter came to be a confluence point for literary and cultural discu…
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We're in the 2025 reboot of The Monkey's Paw.
Irony is 1 reason Dodd-Frank created the CFPB was that pre-crisis consumer financial protection was spread across 7 agencies. It was nobody’s priority, so it was done poorly and without clarity. Consolidating programs for better outcomes: a model of actual government efficiency.
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There's not a lot of thinking going on in this administration.
RFK Jr: Screams about dyes in food which ARE regulated for safety and Screams about vaccine ingredients which ARE tested and regulated for safety While consuming a synthetic dye, methylene blue, that is NOT regulated OR tested for safety & encouraging others to do so too. 1/
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@HurricaneVision Not to mention there may be very important reasons to not enforce uniqueness at certain places. Administrative and transcription errors occur.
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If the right people make money, does it matter how many others suffer?
810,000 people have lost money on the $Trump meme coin while the Trump family and partners made $100 million in trading fees alone (per NYT)
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These books will give you an overview of the history and philosophies of multiple economic thinkers, together with examples of how and why it can go wrong and the consequences. And they're also very entertaining reads.
If you want to learn Economics, don't enroll in any course. Just read this book. I'm not kidding. It will seriously teach you more than anything else can. Thread:
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He has a Special Head. Special Heads don't need to know or understand anything. Special Heads have Special Ideas that are always original, amazing and correct. Special Thinking cannot be understood or appreciated by us Normal Heads, so we must trust the Special Heads.
the scariest thing about this whole Musk runs the government situation is that he keeps making massive decisions that impact millions of people while demonstrating he hasn’t bothered to understand what he’s even doing
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