So at the risk of maybe overreading this and making an educated guess, I think I can guess what specifically Wyden is talking about.
I think it's about use of AI (LLMs) by FBI to surveil American communications without a warrant
xkcd comic where cueball says They want $80 for this? *gesturing at two boxes* I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, nd $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks. Title text: It's not as big a loss as it looks, because now I have leftover supplies, which will help me talk myself into doing this all over again with a new project!
I'm being blatantly attacked on the internet and have no choice but to admit it xkcd.com/3233
Ooof, this one hits hard
Things appear to be going great this morning 😐
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If an American uses the word "kilo" to describe a quantity of something, I would immediately assume they are trafficking narcotics 🤷♂️
And the absolute pain in the ass it is to try and hire someone with experience in Stan.
I miss Stan 😢 (I'm in PyMC nowadays)
The only argument anyone really has against abolishing the senate is "but its always been that way," which isn't a compelling reason not to fucking nuke the senate
Tis better to be right than to be liked 🤷♂️
iq bell curve meme about voting
Probably not the meme that will get me the most likes (should have also done the pitchfork one) but you know there are more things in life than being liked.
So hear me out. What uf people think the economy is trash because we're all just secretly judging the economy based on GPU prices 😅
If you regress a subcomponent used to construct an index on a composite index, it will be very predictive of the composite index because you're conditioning on something that is already part of the definition of your target!
Certainly, and as part of the process of creating a new measure/index "how much does subcomponent contribute to the measure" may be and often is an interesting question to ask. I'm not convinced its particularly interesting or can produce anything surprising outside that context though.
Zero economic value. Enourmous social costs.
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But using democracy to predict rule of law doesn't make sense because RoL is a subcomponent of the concept of democracy, so no shit they're highly correlated.
Back when I was teaching research methods, I included this lesson as part of measurement validation/validity. Our composite index should be correlated with things we theoretical reasons to expect it to be correlated with (a democracy measure ought to predict regime stability, GDP, etc.)
"The economy is great when my guy is in power and terrible when he's not" kind of makes opinions about the economy not super reliable as a measure of the state of the economy 😬
I love these threads because they remind me of the good old days of twitter where the nerds just slug it out in public.
Honestly, probably for the best
This evening's project was getting the lead guitar track for this working. New Pitch/Drop pedal works fucking great, so I can play this in F# Standard instead of having to use a capo.
Fuck Trump.
Here's @adambonica.bsky.social with a whole piece on this
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Let they among us who have never said "do as I say, not as I do" cast the first stone
Me when teaching Git: always write informative commit messages
Me when writing commit messages: "fix"
She's in her early 40s, right? ~10 years is nothing once you're both past ~25. 🤷♂️
Welp, then I'm out of ideas
I may be fine at this moment personally, but when companies have been doing mass layoffs for what seems like every month of the last three years, it's kind of hard to be optimistic about "the economy" writ large.
