I mean, that's because it's not actually a one vote margin. The house is currently 217-213, and most of the close ones are because Republicans let a couple reps vote no to make next election easier, and Democrats not going to the mat to keep a couple dipshits in line for an already-lost vote
It’s really difficult to separate this from how inflation has been covered in media. If the price change was more historically unusual, that works as a data point for either argument. The change was more newsworthy, driving both personal impact and higher media focus.
A photograph of rows of blue/green incoming waves, spindrift backlit by pink evening light, flowing around a dark rock.
Scottish waves and light.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sock puppet that is less combative than the main account
There's an extended discussion about this on the cybertruck forums apparently:
www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/thread...
Here’s a key reason why it’s very bad that we keep losing big, well-funded media outlets that publish real journalism:
Only those organizations have the money and heft to protect reporters from inevitable legal battles with powerful people (like, say, sex offender politicians and tech CEOs).
I mean we have the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, even the science part sounds like mysticism
These people genuinely think that past societies abandoned naked, reflexive brutality and cruelty because they were soft and weak and dissolute, not that some extremely cold-eyed, ruthless people ran the numbers and realized you often get more with an occasionally velvet glove
It means areas such as Workington, Whitehaven, Cockermouth, Keswick, Ambleside and Windermere could see fast-flowing or deep floodwater, causing a danger to life.
What’s so funny about Ambleside
“Making the models smarter doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem harder to see.”
Great discussion of AI in science: Making the mistakes teaches you how to see mistakes, and that step can’t be skipped.
The AI knows what to try, but has no way to tell what actually worked
Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.”
That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...
Not a huge fan myself, but I can see where people might enjoy reliving an idealized version of it to help plaster over the real, messy awkwardness they remember
No one better personified the political status quo's ability to identify the danger we faced in intimate detail while declining to act on it out of a sense of propriety.
Shockingly, he's at 78.6k as of this post
But they were all deceived for a 5th loco was made
Kurosawa on watching Solaris with Tarkovsky
Later than that! That was the start, but there were a ton of news stories as they actually arrived in the US IN THE 80s/90s, mention in books is a pretty good indicator:
books.google.com/ngrams/graph...
objection your honor, my client is being brutally owned online
For anyone who isn’t familiar with the data jargon, the “statistically rigorous” part means these are going to be explainable, non-LLM models, probably for flagging products with high complaint or failure rates
I love when old polls give you hints about the history of language! You can tell the naming convention between lunch, dinner, and supper was in flux enough that they couldn’t use the current standard to ask the question
We spent decades making it hard for people to game search engines, and it was a constant battle.
What if, instead, we make the entire engine a black box word association tool, whose best tuning method is extensive human labeling?
That’s probably a lot more efficient, right?
"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard
Taking pictures of flowers under streetlights just feels nice and I don’t know why
I’m entirely winging it on those numbers, counting it versus the state of automated driving in like 1995. If you count all the decisions controlling a vehicle takes, it’s probably at least a dozen every mile for city driving, and failing once per thousand miles is completely unsustainable
They are genuinely not very good at driving. Waymo has really significant limits on the roads they prefer to take to avoid any challenging situations. Getting from 99.99% to 99.999% is going to be much harder, since the rarer the event is the less data. That said, they are slow, not dangerous.
Big challenge for political pundits:
Discuss the speech the president actually gives tonight, and not the one you maybe thought you might have seen if you squinted just right.
Compare that real speech to the real world around us.
I would love it if they gave hue/saturation/brightness specific scores, I am very curious whether I was getting the hues about right
Elevate myspace Tom
Their argument for even-more-ubiquitous surveillance is a few hundred dogs found a little earlier than they would have been otherwise? Yeesh