Con Healy

Family man & product manager. Fatally curious like a cat.

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I used to work on Recommendation Systems and found introductions to the topic too long or bad. So I wrote a doc I wish I could have read on day on on the job.

Link below

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Stickers of Toronto

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Outside of a few circles, seems like this issue is deserving of a little more attention than it's getting.

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

I have an article in the Toronto Star today on what middle powers should do on AI. Wrote this last week before the Fable news, but even more relevant now. 1) Frontier AI is critical, 2) Only US and China even trying to make it, 3) Only becoming more important. What to do? 1/12

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@internetvin It's time to turn your back in the NBA. Nothing can match the spiritual and entertainment value of the Brampton bagsman.

https://t.co/YX0UPoe8ex

[Southampton FC @SouthamptonFC]

Woke up still thinking about our Brampton bagsman 🤩

[Southampton FC @SouthamptonFC]

Woke up still thinking about our Brampton bagsman 🤩

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@cj3636282847483 @Noahpinion Yes, agree. Just trying to explain where this comes from

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@fahdananta Evernote, Ryan Research, Notion. The note taking app cycle of hype and decline.

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@tolstoybb @CifarettoStan $4000 could probably get you a few days in Barcelona and an El Classico ticket

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The data center panic is weird. They've been around for many years and nobody cared that much. And there isn't one specific environmental concern that's in focus. It's more of a negative vibe. Wonder if it sticks around.

[Samuel Roland @Allinallnotbad]

Great piece from @AndyMasley today on the data center moral panic.

I agree with his conclusion that aside from a handful of particular air pollution instances, the soloing out of data centers is purely a moral panic. There’s just no metric on which they are clearly worse than other industry, and on most they are far better.

Even the electricity price rise point, which could in theory come to pass in a couple locations, is basically reliant on a presumption where we all screw up and let data centers spike grid demand but also don’t protect ratepayers.

This is incredibly unlikely to happen! People are very aware of the scale of load being added to the grid, and politicians are very sensitive to ratepayers. My default here is that we either figure it out or at least push off the grid to protect ratepayers. Which, tbc, is far from ideal, but wouldn’t harm ratepayers.

So afaict there isn’t a real claim to be made here. Data centers are good infrastructure that are driving quite a lot of other innovation through their demand. You should support them!

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@Afinetheorem And also cloud services aren't rare earth elements. There are alternatives. Not unheard of to run on bare metal when data residency requirements are strict.

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@Afinetheorem Seems the intent of these laws was to break up large landed estates over time
https://t.co/vNQemUwZNV

[DHARI @q8_brave]

You have it backwards. Forced heirship was the revolutionary tool against aristocracy, not for it.

The Napoleonic Code abolished primogeniture precisely to shatter the landed dynasties of the Ancien Régime. By forcing estates to split among all children every generation, France made it nearly impossible for any family to hoard land and title across centuries — the exact mechanism that built European aristocracy in the first place.

America’s “freedom of testation” does the opposite: it lets a single heir inherit everything intact. That’s how you build dynasties, not break them. It’s no accident that the U.S. now has more multigenerational billionaire families than France does landed nobility.

So the “self-made vs. inherited” framing is exactly inverted. The system you’re praising protects concentrated wealth. The one you’re mocking was written to destroy it.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

1/5
I'm a cardiologist. I have spent twenty years watching cholesterol destroy arteries, trigger heart attacks, and kill people I care about.
Today, Eli Lilly presented data that may begin to end that era.
VERVE-102. A single infusion. One dose. It uses base editing to permanently turn off the PCSK9 gene in your liver.
Presented today at the European Atherosclerosis Society Congress:
88% reduction in PCSK9.
62% reduction in LDL cholesterol.
Sustained up to 18 months.
No treatment-related serious adverse events.
One infusion. Not daily pills you forget to take. Not monthly injections. One dose — and your cholesterol may stay low for the rest of your life.

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@jessethanley @Shpigford Only one man can save them now

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@Noahpinion I have a Sorel bush planted in my yard. No maintenance. Comes up every year and it's like crack for bunnies. Brings them all to the yard.

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@gbrl_dick This article from 2013
https://t.co/kzw4AaZw2h

"For decades, science fiction warned of a future when we would be architects of our own obsolescence, replaced by our machines; an Associated Press analysis finds that the future has arrived."

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@patrickc I'm so late to this. But I think there's a lot of auto immune (and other) diseases that are thought to have environmental triggers and we don't know what they are.

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@nominalthoughts @Miles_Brundage @ernietedeschi I never knew I could like a diet pop before the reformulated come zero came out a few years ago. My life changed forever. I now drink more Coke Zero than water.

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@rSanti97 @Afinetheorem Oliver St John Gogarty. I think he moved to New York shortly after that visit