An Al Pastor California Burrito from Vicky’s, out of focus as if it is a cryptid emerging from Lake Michigan.

Lake forever, burrito for now

Proof of Stake is one solution to this that is already being adopted. FBA is a lot more palatable to the average human, but will require a great deal of infrastructure.

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The cure for your loneliness epidemic.

Hadn’t checked in on Gary Bernhardt in a while. Kinda heartwarming to see some people are still in it for the love of the game (wonder, joy, and exasperation).

It sometimes blows my mind that Attention is All You Need is only 9 years old

Nobody tell RA Salvatore.

the penne opticon

I’m BLAB+ a universal Bloob recipient.

Boy do the responses to this _______.

Is there a good book length discussion in English about the 1989 negotiation and agreement on the original Belgian cordon sanitaire? Book chapters/long essays also welcome. Looking for details about how it played out in public at the time.

We could call it the Siena Court. It’s already a council of nine.

It seems we’ve gone off track from your initial point about revealed preference and my questions about it. Thank you for indulging me for a while. You were both patient and gracious with your time.

The standard set forth did not capture the essential qualities we were hoping to capture. The apples were not very appley.

Which is to say, it is an apples to apples comparison, but neither of the apples are particularly appley.

I agree! Simultaneously with the sarcastic and literal interpretations of your statement.

(This is the estimated range of paying users for google maps api).

By this standard, Google Maps is used by approximately 1.5-5 million people/businesses.

So it seems like its a popular enough product that a number of people somewhere in the neighborhood of 2-8% of the US population is willing to pay for it.

This is a different line of inquiry entirely. It’s entirely fine if you don’t find them useful! How would you tell if other people found _that_ they were useful without yourself understanding _why_ they were useful?

The other person responding to this message believes they are being coerced to use them. Feel free to work it out with them.

I am leery of this particular line, as I’d be hard pressed to believe the users of google maps (free) are not in some sense real and uncoerced users. That caveat being aside, estimates I’ve seen for paid users of both open ai and anthropic are in the low tens of millions (10-30).

I think the voluntary visits to chatgpt and downloads of various LLM apps onto personal cell phones have convinced me it’s probably not entirely, or even majorly, driven top-down (this is not to say that top down driving doesn’t happen, or isn’t bad when it does).

Can you expand on this?

when the meteorologist in the upper midwest says, "it's not ideal" you know you are fucked

I appreciate and am horrified by what the ambiguity in this emoji-only conversation could be construed to imply.

Mania incoming

Cover of "The Death of the Automobile" by John Jerome, and illustrated by Robert Osborn. Text at the bottom of the page reads, "The Detroit car is an ecological, economic and engineering disaster - and the sixty-year-old love affair between it and the American people is ending." Illustration features a car in the style of a dying bug or animal.