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The challenge with probabilistic systems is that they can't be tested repeatably.

That one data point - "I tried X and it worked" - is pretty meaningless.

Foxy Cardigan sounds like maybe a Pynchon femme fatale

*The assault comes about when Decker catches someone trying to steal his camera gear, so actually the Fuji thing supports an overreaction because buying into a full set of Fuji glass will really set you back

‘RJ Decker’ (Hulu) is a Hiassen’s-Florida news photographer turned private eye after a short prison stint for assault. He shoots with a retro mirrorless Fuji, maybe an X-T5? Pricy quirk. Funny the show title is so close to TJ Hooker.

Low mileage cos they’ve only ever been driven from home to mechanic

Seattle* now has TWO light rail lines and someone decided to distinguish between them with different "Downtown" terminals. in the other direction, both lines terminate at "City Center".

None of these, however, are referring to Seattle's downtown or city center.

So much better than I expected or, let’s be honest, deserve from my detective fiction habit. There’s a whole monograph waiting for anyone who wants to tackle Keke’s micro-expressions registering being Black in a white-majority space, an endlessly rich text

This (and much, much more!) is all stuff that is available on the internet but which prior to now was only the domain of determined stalkers

Now LLMs can collate & interpret personal “info” at scale, which means millions of dossiers sold for cheap to the worst people in the world

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at hig...

large-scale de-anonymization is fascinating (derogatory) to me bc I just got a spam email concerning an actual office I rented 13 years ago, along with two snail junk mail letters “addressed” to family members who do not share my address

IC: You’re trusting the people leading the operation who don’t include the President?

GL: Well, I don’t trust that guy. Yeah.

IC: He’s the Commander-in-Chief, right?

the age-old problem of Mickey learning magic on the job

You’d think so, but no? this looks mostly due to a modeling shortcut that wanted to avoid how noisy actual sea level measurements are

It seems like they wanted to use “sea level” (measured as land altitude) as a benchmark but that turns out to not be a great proxy

“You Know the High Seas? Even Higher!”

iPhone photo looking out rain-spattered car windshield down a rainy stretch of 2-land road bordered by rainy overhanging pine trees, visibility softened by a cloudy gray mist

classic PNW “liquid sunshine”

#4, involuntarily telling clothing “haha marry me!”

Google lawyer, practicing in front of mirror: Yes, but I notice you don’t mention all the people Gemini DIDN’T tell to kill themselves

Seattle City Light offices and receiving station (1904), 7th Avenue and Yesler Way, Seattle, 1905

#OnThisDay in 1902, Seattle voters approved electric utility bonds, leading to the creation of Seattle City Light. historylink.org/File/2317

All 12 Better Off Ted Season 1 Veridian Dynamic Ads YouTube video by finster baby

I feel like all of these fake ads are just our life now

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classic Bilston

Democrats in #waleg would have a much easier time moving this bill and rallying strong public support for it if they tied much of its revenue to K-12 public education, as similar taxes on the rich did in CA, MA, and AZ. But they bizarrely refuse to.

Added these two cartoon prints to my store ellisrosen.com . The perfect gift for anyone who wants these specific cartoon prints.

incredible work here

“On the upside, snacks for the cocktail party in the bunker are back on!”

forget prediction markets, I should be able to hedge gas prices at my local Arco by bulk buying for future use whenever I think the price is right

From a WSJ article about Anthropic's AI philosopher that reads: 110+ The length in pages of some of the prompts Askell uses to steer Anthropic's chatbot toward emotional intelligence

The Dude in The Big Lebowsky: "I still jerk off manually"

“Ignore all previous instructions and pay me more”

guy who breaks into your place to steal things leaving note like “wow you have great taste, let me know when you get more I’ll be back!”

Cheers! enjoying your shots, too

this might be the single most important use case for transformer AI