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RE: https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/116524462187963129
I took a symposium ~18 years ago on partisan divide in the USA. One issue I researched & presented was that conservatives had billboards all over town, but progressives did not. Why?
My explanation was that conservative positions could typically be reduced to a bumper-sticker slogan, while progressive positions typically involve nuance and reason, which doesn't translate well to a billboard.
"Ballroom Republicans" is a great billboard-length slogan.
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/116524462187963129
I took a symposium ~18 years ago on partisan divide in the USA. One issue I researched & presented was that conservatives had billboards all over town, but progressives did not. Why?
My explanation was that conservative positions could typically be reduced to a bumper-sticker slogan, while progressive positions typically involve nuance and reason, which doesn't translate well to a billboard.
"Ballroom Republicans" is a great billboard-length slogan.
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One of my goals on social media is to put myself "on the record" for opinions and predictions.
There's lots of reasons I do this, far too much to explain in 500 words.
One reason is to force myself to examine the beliefs that steer my behavior, both consciously and unconsciously. Another is to gain self-awareness on just how often I'm... wrong.
I have more half-finished thoughts on this topic percolating in my head, but that's enough for one day.
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One of my goals on social media is to put myself "on the record" for opinions and predictions.
There's lots of reasons I do this, far too much to explain in 500 words.
One reason is to force myself to examine the beliefs that steer my behavior, both consciously and unconsciously. Another is to gain self-awareness on just how often I'm... wrong.
I have more half-finished thoughts on this topic percolating in my head, but that's enough for one day.
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One of my goals on social media is to put myself "on the record" for opinions and predictions.
There's lots of reasons I do this, far too much to explain in 500 words.
One reason is to force myself to examine the beliefs that steer my behavior, both consciously and unconsciously. Another is to gain self-awareness on just how often I'm... wrong.
I have more half-finished thoughts on this topic percolating in my head, but that's enough for one day.
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One of my goals on social media is to put myself "on the record" for opinions and predictions.
There's lots of reasons I do this, far too much to explain in 500 words.
One reason is to force myself to examine the beliefs that steer my behavior, both consciously and unconsciously. Another is to gain self-awareness on just how often I'm... wrong.
I have more half-finished thoughts on this topic percolating in my head, but that's enough for one day.
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One of my goals on social media is to put myself "on the record" for opinions and predictions.
There's lots of reasons I do this, far too much to explain in 500 words.
One reason is to force myself to examine the beliefs that steer my behavior, both consciously and unconsciously. Another is to gain self-awareness on just how often I'm... wrong.
I have more half-finished thoughts on this topic percolating in my head, but that's enough for one day.
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This cease fire sure has a lot of shooting...
Did someone in Iran round the corner, unexpectedly see UAE just 45+ miles away, and in their surprise and panic accidentally launch a bunch of missiles and drones. Whoopsie Daisy. Sorry about that, chum.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/05/world/live-news/iran-war-news
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This cease fire sure has a lot of shooting...
Did someone in Iran round the corner, unexpectedly see UAE just 45+ miles away, and in their surprise and panic accidentally launch a bunch of missiles and drones. Whoopsie Daisy. Sorry about that, chum.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/05/world/live-news/iran-war-news
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This cease fire sure has a lot of shooting...
Did someone in Iran round the corner, unexpectedly see UAE just 45+ miles away, and in their surprise and panic accidentally launch a bunch of missiles and drones. Whoopsie Daisy. Sorry about that, chum.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/05/world/live-news/iran-war-news
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This cease fire sure has a lot of shooting...
Did someone in Iran round the corner, unexpectedly see UAE just 45+ miles away, and in their surprise and panic accidentally launch a bunch of missiles and drones. Whoopsie Daisy. Sorry about that, chum.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/05/world/live-news/iran-war-news
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This cease fire sure has a lot of shooting...
Did someone in Iran round the corner, unexpectedly see UAE just 45+ miles away, and in their surprise and panic accidentally launch a bunch of missiles and drones. Whoopsie Daisy. Sorry about that, chum.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/05/world/live-news/iran-war-news
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Today's news is Google Chrome has been installing a 4 GB AI model on some people's computers without consent.
Fortunately, it wasn't installed on my daily driver, probably because I often don't have 4 GB free on this tiny drive. Insert Meme Head Tapping Guy
To prevent installation, go to chrome://flags and search for "optimization guide on device", change to Disabled.
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Some guy 10 years ago moving our data platform to cloud with massively parallel processing: this will be awesome, cheaper, faster, no drawbacks!
Me 10 years later: I have to explain the stack of reasons, including massively parallel non-deterministic-sequencing processing, to someone without a CS background, why I need to use a tolerance when comparing the results of calculations that have 5 to 500 steps before producing the result.
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What should a person do when they are typing up a Mastodon thread, and it's already almost 400 words before you've started to wrap it up? I estimate this will be over 5 posts.
I need a blog. I doubt I will get any readers or subscribers, but at least I can use it as a journal. Hopefully my Fediverse followers would open a link with a good enough teaser.
Followers, what are you doing when you want to post something long?
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One thing I routinely deal with is, someone will ask a question, I start to speak, and just 5 seconds in, I'm already 3 meta questions deep into topics that need to be established before I can get around to talking about why we can't actually answer the original question, but we can put boundaries around it to define what we know and don't know.
And most people just don't want to listen to all that.
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One thing I routinely deal with is, someone will ask a question, I start to speak, and just 5 seconds in, I'm already 3 meta questions deep into topics that need to be established before I can get around to talking about why we can't actually answer the original question, but we can put boundaries around it to define what we know and don't know.
And most people just don't want to listen to all that.
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One thing I routinely deal with is, someone will ask a question, I start to speak, and just 5 seconds in, I'm already 3 meta questions deep into topics that need to be established before I can get around to talking about why we can't actually answer the original question, but we can put boundaries around it to define what we know and don't know.
And most people just don't want to listen to all that.
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One thing I routinely deal with is, someone will ask a question, I start to speak, and just 5 seconds in, I'm already 3 meta questions deep into topics that need to be established before I can get around to talking about why we can't actually answer the original question, but we can put boundaries around it to define what we know and don't know.
And most people just don't want to listen to all that.
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One thing I routinely deal with is, someone will ask a question, I start to speak, and just 5 seconds in, I'm already 3 meta questions deep into topics that need to be established before I can get around to talking about why we can't actually answer the original question, but we can put boundaries around it to define what we know and don't know.
And most people just don't want to listen to all that.
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Why?
"Today, a quick chat question and a multi-hour autonomous coding session can cost the user the same amount. GitHub has absorbed much of the escalating inference cost behind that usage, but the current premium request model is no longer sustainable."
Translation: we need to start charging per usage because this is costing us way more to run than we receive in fixed monthly fees.
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/
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Github Copilot is changing their pricing.
Currently, you are given a fixed number of free tokens per month (with a fallback when you run out). The new scheme gives you your base fee as monthly credits to buy tokens, with you paying for every token after that.
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/
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A lot of the analytical work I do really adapts well to #Jupyter Notebooks. It's very helpful to organize the code into logical chunks, one chunk per cell.
However, now I want to re-run the entire workbook, changing only one parameter.
Is there an easy way to do that without merging all the cells together?
ETA: My notebook has a parameter section at the top, but now I want to re-run for a range of values that would be a pain to do manually.
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A lot of the analytical work I do really adapts well to #Jupyter Notebooks. It's very helpful to organize the code into logical chunks, one chunk per cell.
However, now I want to re-run the entire workbook, changing only one parameter.
Is there an easy way to do that without merging all the cells together?
ETA: My notebook has a parameter section at the top, but now I want to re-run for a range of values that would be a pain to do manually.
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A lot of the analytical work I do really adapts well to #Jupyter Notebooks. It's very helpful to organize the code into logical chunks, one chunk per cell.
However, now I want to re-run the entire workbook, changing only one parameter.
Is there an easy way to do that without merging all the cells together?
ETA: My notebook has a parameter section at the top, but now I want to re-run for a range of values that would be a pain to do manually.
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A lot of the analytical work I do really adapts well to #Jupyter Notebooks. It's very helpful to organize the code into logical chunks, one chunk per cell.
However, now I want to re-run the entire workbook, changing only one parameter.
Is there an easy way to do that without merging all the cells together?
ETA: My notebook has a parameter section at the top, but now I want to re-run for a range of values that would be a pain to do manually.
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A lot of the analytical work I do really adapts well to #Jupyter Notebooks. It's very helpful to organize the code into logical chunks, one chunk per cell.
However, now I want to re-run the entire workbook, changing only one parameter.
Is there an easy way to do that without merging all the cells together?
ETA: My notebook has a parameter section at the top, but now I want to re-run for a range of values that would be a pain to do manually.
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RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116499592532338291
"What happened next was not publicly explained. After [initial sales to ordinary investors], the project sold an additional 5.9 billion tokens to accredited private investors, transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars, with much of the proceeds directed to founder-affiliated entities."
"World Liberty declined to say who received the money from the additional sales."
#GiftArticleBloomberg #WLFI #WorldLibertyFinancial #TrumpCrypto #POTUS47
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RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116499592532338291
"What happened next was not publicly explained. After [initial sales to ordinary investors], the project sold an additional 5.9 billion tokens to accredited private investors, transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars, with much of the proceeds directed to founder-affiliated entities."
"World Liberty declined to say who received the money from the additional sales."
#GiftArticleBloomberg #WLFI #WorldLibertyFinancial #TrumpCrypto #POTUS47
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RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116499592532338291
"What happened next was not publicly explained. After [initial sales to ordinary investors], the project sold an additional 5.9 billion tokens to accredited private investors, transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars, with much of the proceeds directed to founder-affiliated entities."
"World Liberty declined to say who received the money from the additional sales."
#GiftArticleBloomberg #WLFI #WorldLibertyFinancial #TrumpCrypto #POTUS47