After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like. https://t.co/uts7JpJZzN
On the https://t.co/zyBbIpTQNy website, the "log in" button was not in the top right on the navbar like it is on most websites. It was weirdly placed in the middle of the page below the fold.
An IRS engineer explained that the *soonest* this change could get deployed is July 21st... 103 days from now.
This engineer worked with the DOGE team to delete the red tape and accomplished the task in 71 minutes. See before/after pictures below.
There are great people at the IRS, who are simply being strangled by bureaucracy.
9/ models probably focus only on final answers, formatting, and other surface-level factors without adequately accounting for the validity of the reasoning process itself.
@JohnStossel """
When you walk around [...] Copenhagen or Stockholm, you rarely see anybody smile.
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What a silly critique of the world happiness report
@JohnStossel """
notably it does not make them report higher levels of happiness at any particular moment
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That's exactly the point of using the cantril ladder question. It's intended to be a more stable and reliable indicator of subjective well-being than asking people if they're happy.
I’m at Stanford and I research software engineering productivity.
We have data on the performance of >50k engineers from 100s of companies.
Inspired by @deedydas, our research shows:
~9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers (0.1x-ers)
It's fun to think about how the medium we use to write something has its own "reward shape" for the word choices we make..
I've wondered similarly what it would be like to have an app that slows you down when you use simpler / shorter words:
Writing things by hand is annoying but it's superior to typing for learning/recall.
I've wondered what it would be like to have an app that tries to imitate some qualities of handwriting