Neal O'Mara

[Neal O'Mara @NealOMara]

@retardcoltsfan @elsathora Calm down. Indianapolis' murder rate is almost 6x higher than SF's.

[Neal O'Mara @NealOMara]

@DeepValue000 It was a bit of an awkward analogy, but I get his point. If you're a data vendor, it's better to sell what everyone needs on a day-to-day basis ("beta") vs. exotic alt data that is profitable to use now but gets arbitraged away eventually ("alpha").

[Neal O'Mara @NealOMara]

@Barred1984 @ShadowofEzra They're not at risk of losing their power, they're just switching the source (which has been planned for years):

“This does not mean the power is shutting off,” said Eric Schwarzrock, president of Liberty Utilities in Lake Tahoe at a South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting.

[Neal O'Mara @NealOMara]

@stevekrouse My friends used to make fun of my faxing business for years! Turned out okay for me.

[Neal O'Mara @NealOMara]

@MostlyMonkey I think you need a union of the two datasets. Your approach is missing some areas the CDP approach picked up.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

I'm in favor of taxing the ultra-rich. But California's "billionaire tax" is a poorly-designed piece of slopulism.

https://t.co/SD4asFDt2C

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure violate the Geneva conventions and international law. 

Trump: Who are you with? 

Reporter: I'm with the New York Times

Trump: Failing New York Times. Circulation is way down.

Reporter: Are you concerned that your threat to bomb power plants and bridges amount to war crimes?

Trump: No, not at all. These are disturbed people. Quiet. You no longer have credibility. You’re fake.

[The Dread duck Pirate Mark Brooks 𓅊 @MarkBrooksArt]

Here’s the thing. We are going to HATE the next democratic president. Because they’re going to have to spend 4 years fixing our incredibly broken govt while figuring out how to restore our economy while mending nearly all our international relationships. All while addressing a country that’s basically insolvent. We got pilfered by the current administration so there’s entire systems that got wiped out while contractors and corporations got bloated off our tax dollars via special favors for and from Trump. This is going to mean higher taxes across the board and massive sacrifices just to get us back to neutral. Trump stole and gave away billions while wrecking every institution he could get his hands on. It’s going to hurt to fix them all and regain what we lost. This will all be while a restored justice dept prosecutes dozens of people in the Trump administration for massive corruption. It’s going to get very messy. I honestly don’t know how they’ll be able to do it and be able to win a second term. The majority of the country won’t understand why it’s necessary for their/our future.

[Neal O'Mara @NealOMara]

@supercalifrag33 @TheFP @Kimberl82111287 Yes, "they". It's always "they". "They" are really terrible. Wait, who are they?

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

A few people asked me to make an image of how much irrigated farmland would use the same water required for ALL ChatGPT usage, including every part of the process. I did a botec and my best guess right now is that inference uses about as much water as training, and power generation uses ~5x as much water as the data centers themselves, so it looks something like this. The water cost of manufacturing chips is marginal compared to how much water they use over their lifetimes.

[Neal O'Mara @NealOMara]

@Noahpinion Slightly different take, but this is closest I think: https://t.co/OJj7snkaGN

"Pushing Back on Bullshit by Model"

[Christos Tzamos @ChristosTzamos]

1/4 LLMs solve research grade math problems but struggle with basic calculations. We bridge this gap by turning them to computers.

We built a computer INSIDE a transformer that can run programs for millions of steps in seconds solving even the hardest Sudokus with 100% accuracy

[Neal O'Mara @NealOMara]

@gregoryblotnick You're using it like a search engine. It's not a good search engine, especially for quantitative data. Have it outsource that piece to a financial database (e.g. AlphaVantage) via MCP/CLI/API/whatever.

[skepticalifornia @skepticaliblog]

It's very on brand for California that one of the factors pushing Oakland towards a possible bankruptcy is environmental activists pushing the city to illegally renege on a port contract

Taxpayers are now on the hook for up to $654 million, before interest

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

'At this point, 'building housing reduces rent' is as close to a scientific law of the housing market as we’re likely to find' - @Noahpinion

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

Apple is the only company with a great proposal here: let parents, who buy the devices used by kids, set up kids accounts and decide what they're allowed to do, then pass those decisions to apps through parental controls -- without demanding anyone's identity papers.

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

I was talking with someone at a startup building “the agentic layer” who was excitedly telling me about how their agents would seamlessly navigate/extract/aggregate data from a customer’s various SORs

I just stopped him and was like “Why do you think these SORs would let you do that?”

He didn’t have a good answer. He was just like “but it’s the customer’s data they can do what they want!”

Lotta people about to learn the hard way how the Enterprise works

[Philip Shetler-Jones @shetlerjones]

“Chinese people still have no freedom of speech, no freedom of religion and there are still political prisoners in China," he said. "Clearly, I wouldn't allow my daughter to compete for such a government." https://t.co/Wwuy3vwzW3

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

At high stakes Pentagon meeting today Sec Hegseth gave Anthropic head Dario Amodei ultimatum to allow the Pentagon to use Anthropic’s AI model for mass domestic surveillance and kinetic autonomous operations without human oversight or face censure and be labeled “supply chain threat.”

According to a source familiar:
The meeting was cordial, not a dressing down, not a screaming match, all business.

Hegseth praised the Anthropic product but then said if by Friday Anthropic does not agree to the Pentagon’s use of the model without restrictions, then Hegseth would terminate the contract and use the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to comply AND/OR designate Anthropic a supply chain threat and national security risk. (EDIT: Both are mutually exclusive. You can’t be a supply chain risk but also invoke the DPA to say that the country needs this product so much for national security that it will override any restrictions put in place by the company that limits govt access to the product. Both cannot be true.)

At issue is Anthropic’s two stipulations that its advanced AI model currently used in the Pentagon’s classified systems is NOT used for autonomous kinetic operations (Anthropic currently requires human oversight of autonomous operations when used to kill things for safety reasons because they don’t know how the autonomous system will react and could even endanger soldiers using the model; soldiers and others could lose control of the model and automatically start killing large groups without humans in the “kill chain.”) Second Anthropic bars its models from being used for mass domestic surveillance. Hegseth wants these restrictions lifted.

According to a source familiar with the talks, Anthropic has never objected to the use of its models for “legitimate military operations.” It also told the Hegseth it never complained to the Pentagon or Palantir about the use of its models in the Maduro raid.