The author of the book I am currently reading is an idiot. I should probably just toss the book, but I have an ingrained habit of finishing books once I've started them. Maybe I am also an idiot.

Just gorged myself on sushi!

JD needs to hold Peter Thiel to that same standard.

Enjoying grapefruit juice from our tree with non-alcoholic gin. Excellent!

Feeling good for the people of Hungary!

I expected bluesky to be full of talk on Swalwell allegations. Hardly seeing any commentary.

The Cornell campus is awesome. Beautiful area of the country.

I had the same issue when I tackled War and Peace. The French passages actually just killed my momentum.

Totally agree on Pevear and Volokhonsky. I devoured all of their Dostoesvsky translations. I might try an audiobook version at some point.

Great series!

If the question were asked out of a genuine sense of curiosity, that would have been great! But it seems more like flat earth slop.

But that handle just oozes credibility!

we say it a lot but Dems absolutely have to demand impeachment, resignation, or a 25th amendment removal every day. Every HOUR of every day

You cannot let someone who talks like this have the nuclear codes until the next election and then just kinda hope the electorate does your job for you

Polymarket: 99-1 odds against the president praising Allah on Easter.

Trump:

I had fun a while back programming a 3D convex hull algorithm.

I am waiting for the day Stephen Miller gets what's coming to him.

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And don't forget Hegseth's prayer to Jesus for overwhelming violence.

Everyone who works with Trump gets burned.

Actual smart people don't crow about how smart they are.

Heartbeat from the presidency and he beliefs in primitive mythology.

Notable quote: "The aliens have arrived. We built them."

There is a lot in this talk, but an example idea is that AI agents might use compressibility as a guide when exploring idea space.

Michael Freedman: Compression Is All You Need YouTube video by SAIR

Mike is one of the smartest people I've ever met. Interesting to see him and his collaborators doing a deep dive on the relation between human mathematics and AI agents.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhA6...

Generic LinkedIn post: I used an AI tool. It made a mistake. A valuable lesson was learned.

People in the US are generally unaware of most things historical.

Man it would be great if Hegseth was fired for this. That guy is such a douche.

I was Undergraduate Head at UT Knoxville for a while. It was a very stressful job, although with the life experience I've accumulated since then, I could probably do it with less stress nowadays.

Trump 2.0 removed all the competent people and replaced them with loyalists. Now we're paying the price.

Trump shot the US in the foot with tariffs, but at least it was something mostly under his control which he could withdraw as markets got spooked. With the war in Iran and closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Trump has done something that can't be easily recovered from.