Paul Nicholson

The notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is. A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock. This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you already know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.

There are things AI can do well, and things it can't. Anything that requires accurate, factual information is still firmly in the latter camp.

This is coming from a guy who loves the capabilities to vibe-code new tools for myself. But I wouldn't trust any LLM for accurate facts right now.

RYAN UFKO HAS HIS FIRST NHL GOAL AND IT WAS GORGEOUS 😱

More Ryan Ufko, please. #predsnhl #preds

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My latest project! Memory Jogger for #LinkedIn. A free Chrome extension (compatible w/ Firefox) that lets you make private notes on LinkedIn profiles, so when they pop up in your feed, you can remember how you know them.

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Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

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it can't tell if the output is true because *it has no concept of truth*. The only thing it "knows" is "this output is correlated"

It is structurally indifferent to truth

Nashville has a history of car dealers blocking transit

If you don't burn the roof off your mouth, did you even eat pizza?

Yeah, everything's fine.

I guess it's good that this was actually an old record and not "broke a record that has now been broken annually for the past 5 years," which seems to often be the case.

And to be clear, I don't think we should re-sign him. Just saying that's the only way to redeem this pack of a move, at this point.

If #predsnhl don't re-sign Haula, then letting him go for nothing in a "selling" year is going to be Ryan Suter all over again. That was a horrible stain on Poile's legacy. This won't get l be quite as bad, but it is close. Esp after Haula's Olympic performance, we couldn't get even a 5th rounder?

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I'm pretty happy with the returns on #predsnhl trades so far. Wish we could've gotten more for Blankenburg, but it's probably about right. And we got an especially good deal for McCarron. Not looking forward to salary retention on any of the big names though. Sell, sell, sell!

An ibm slide from 1979 which says in black text on white background “a computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer must never make a management decision”

Sadly relevant, still:

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[slaps forehead]

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First, I'm alphabetizing that mess. The fact that it's like 80% alpha but not completely just hurts my brain.

Second, lamenting that somehow several bands have multiples (1 even has 3, another has 5!) but there's no Clash or U2, two kings of the cassette era.

Then probably go for The Monkees.

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This is a big deal.

B. But either is ok as long as it's clear. If you do it automatically, give it a countdown

PWHL 101 with Professor Puck! | Episode 1: The PWHL YouTube video by The PWHL

I was just checking out the PWHL live game feed on YouTube (during #predsnhl intermission) and was thinking "coming out of the Olympics, someone should have an 'intro to the PWHL' video for people." Then I saw this video, that had been posted 3 hrs earlier

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There are 16k people watching tonight's PWHL game on YouTube, and a chat poll just indicated 54% are tuning in for the first time. Feels like that might be something.

Reminder that I've got a feed going so #NashvillePredators fans can chat during games. Just reply to the post below to be added to the feed, and then post by using the #PredsNHL tag. Unfortunately the feed updates a bit slowly at times, but it's a fun way to follow the game when it's working well. 🦞

Glad to be back watching #predsnhl. It's almost like Forsberg came out extra motivated after the Olympics. Can't imagine why...

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