Clifford Richardson

exabyte scale data strategy by day job. safety critical aviation/marine systems by passion. Not involved in crypto; short for Corvus cryptoleucus :D

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

So This is something that should be understood more: there has been a larger push to make CICs (Controllers in Command) standalone across the US. There was even some screenshots floating around of pi charts that would show red for any CICs that also worked a position. Midnight shifts or other low traffic times have often been staffed by two people in a cab. However also historically you'd have the CIC working some positions. Now this had its own caveats but one thing that certified controllers (CPCs) were torn about was the idea of keeping two on roster for a shift but essentially only having one control combined positions.

Many thought it could lead to disaster eventuay and while it's easy to point at this ofc we need to wait for all the potential factors to be reviewed and assessed. What I instead want to clarify is this is something that was intended and is directed from higher levels of air traffic management. Now policy shifts slowly so it's not like the trump admin was the one that initially floated the idea and a lot of this is in the general theme of doing more with less that really has been the case since even as far back as Reagan. Still it's worth noting that such decisions like this can be undone by a single secretary on their authority.

So why does Duffy not do that and fix this? the caveat is they really don't have enough people to make each shift three people (2 CPCs on position and an OS as CIC). There are some pushes to get more staff but it's complicated by the fact that the OKC academy is the single bottleneck for training. They tried to add more academies but it's been shut down in Congress (needs congress approval and OK congressmen won't want to relinquish a big benefit to them even if it makes things safer long term because jobs losses).

This is a complicated issue and is not one sided but since people are talking more on the control side i want this to get more attention to get real meaningful fixes that CPCs are comfortable with. Yes they have a union, no that union is not helpful atm and Nick Daniels has shown them to be completely impotent in leadership ability against the current challenges.

To preempt what normally comes up: yes i live in Sweden, but I'm American and have had strong ties to aviation through friends and being a licensed FAA pilot that also understands the air traffic side and listens to the controllers impacted by these issues. I don't try to talk out of my ass and instead just listen to the actual controllers working the job. We need to listen to the controllers more. They are the real data points not a shitty pie chart pushing for more standalone CICs (or CICs that just work CD). Staffing issues are not new. Duffy is absolutely inheriting the issues that really have been ramping up since the late 80s but he's the one with the role. As we say elsewhere: comes with the title, he can fix things.

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

There's a lot of things that are a bit behind in France. But payment via tap between phones is not one of them. Genuinely nice to see and the exact system i pushed for in Sweden. This is how modern transfer should be done. Nice job French commerce!

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

@_sgarbini Curious where you get the data but that aside how do the distributions look? Fascinating to see such a discrepancy. I've heard the payout limits are very low for TikTok so that naturally creates a much more competitive environment at those levels of engagement

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@nikitabier @tobiastornros @mert Good steps imo

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

Funny enough this applies to content type as well when you analyze social graphs of content. Basically there's always this ebb and flow of topics in such networks and aggregators are cancers but you generally see that content flows to a few set of accounts in any model for a certain topic (any centrality analysis quickly shows this). In other words a dynamic system is needed that can actively address content sinks that form, it's not like aggregators is the only sin in social websites. Good steps though I wish they hired a consultant that could help them much quicker than them finding things out. Not me though I'm content with my current engagements and I'd rather just point in directions to help without the noise of yet another contractual obligation

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Aggregators are a cancer to social networks; they’re all running on auto-pilot.

Instagram killed aggregators in 2022 (e.g., “thefatjewish” and “middeclassfancy”) and it led to an explosion of original content.

It is going to work much better for X:
Our users are smarter and have a lot more to say—as long as their voices are not drowned out by automated accounts.

We are publicly demonetizing the most egregious aggregators and using them as examples, so the rest can start evolving.

The endstate of X in a month: we will never pay twice for the same content. We will only reward for net new contributions to the Timeline.

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

@thenewarea51 Kinda interesting because at the same time they have some b2b contracts on their gps spoofing data collection. Not sure about the spotting aspects, but they gamified their network through crypto and that seems to work for them

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

@AdamRackis

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

No. Mix of airport and operator rules. What you call AC is dependent on how APU use is restricted and it varies. In the US a common rule is up to 15 min before push. LAX as another example requires limiting to minimum time for preflight checks be complete and operators vary this.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Is it really true the EU does not allow airlines to use AC when the plane is not flying yet?

Every EU plane I board is a sauna until it takes off?

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

@SciTechera Honestly great execution

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

@paulg This is very poor taste

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

@ThePrimeagen No idea about fantasy per se but John Scalzi pumps out bangers. Loved the Old Man's War and Collapsing Empire series. Collapsing Empire is like dune light

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

@SebAaltonen @Banks_tho @Carsnationn @AutoSeek_NG @autochef__ @llegendarycars @naeem_carss Push button made sense when the propulsive systems were separate from the electrical systems and you'd want some ways to isolate to just having power on but not the engine. Now that we don't need to care about starting a separate system i agree. Button feels outdated.

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

@paulg Contradictory* but i wrote contradictional and autocorrect said no I meant "contradiction AI." Which makes me wonder now if typo frequency is a good indicator of human writing.

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

@paulg structural content of language and how often pairings between two things come up in debate, comparisons, analogies, contradiction Al posts, etc. It's far more than you'd probably think and would be quickly biased in any corpus involving conversation

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

Fewer terms with high signal in search get beat out by more with lesser signal. This is why so many shopping platform catalogs devolve into myriads of ridiculous long nonsensical titles or descriptions. Such is the problem with leveraging distribution stats in search.

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

What's fascinating is how many people assume existing LLM architectures are the way things will go long term. No one knows ofc but it's surprising so many thought experiments are predicated on this despite continued historic evidence of how advancements go

[martin_casado @martin_casado]

Can someone explain to me how open source models can keep up if ...
- pre-training isn't saturated
- it costs $2-4B to train a current gen model
- distillation is increasingly hard as access to the most powerful models gets blocked ..

?

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

@GCH6888 @paulg @JonHaidt Not per se ofc but yeah there are two conditions that would essentially be what you said. Depends what's being studied however because if it's exposure risk then yeah it makes sense to include since there's high risk the kid is exposed to those messages

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

@pnwguerrilla @Deimos9119 That said growing up in NM uh oh can't really miss it, not much else there 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

@pnwguerrilla @Deimos9119 Tbf i think that's the point. In Finland you can't take two steps without seeing a forest of the magnitude in that pic. Same in most of the nordics. In the US you do have to sorta force it most places and most of the population is oblivious to the nature.

[Clifford Richardson @CorvusCrypto]

didn't realize pistachios come in different levels of difficulty

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Can't comment on what real mission planners look like but i can say a lot of this dashboard does nothing and is pure theater. "Claude make me palantirs pitch slide"😂

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝕯𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝕯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔱△ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇺🇲🇬🇷 @TheDeadDistrict]

A CNN segment from a UAV command center operated by Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR), where a large screen shows dozens of Ukrainian drones entering Russian territory and flying over it.

The display shows codes, coordinates, and targets — all processed by artificial intelligence and continuously updated using PRIZMA software (likely a Palantir-developed system).

According to HUR operator specialists, there are several such monitoring and command centers within the Defense Forces, and they are all geographically dispersed. As a result, even if one center were destroyed, it would not affect the overall functioning of the system.

Instead of a single large facility, dozens of different locations are used.

In addition, the software allows operators to simultaneously control thousands of drones in flight.