Matt Post

Machine translation research for big tech and big academia and director of the @aclanthology. Tweets here are mostly personal.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

@BSamuels72 @CharlesFLehman Making an argument for how a prosecutor failed her duties to her constituents is not a bad look, but an important part of accountability, especially in settings where lives are on the line.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

There's not going to be room for much else once they put in the parking lot for that stadium

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Plans released for a $16 billion mile-long ship capable of carrying 80,000 people.

The 'Freedom Ship' would be home to about 50,000 people, with space for 10,000 tourists and 20,000 crew members.

"The Freedom Ship is envisioned as a permanently mobile city at sea designed for long-term residence rather than short-term travel," the company says.

The ship would be about 8 times the size of the current largest ship in the world, the Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas.

The plans include a 15,000-seat stadium, schools, colleges, shops, clubs, a water park, a music hall, museums, parks, and more.

The ship, which would run on nuclear, would be too large to dock and would remain in international waters.

Freedom Cruise International says it would go around the world every two to three years.

Insane.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

@swilkinsonbc This is pretty easy to understand. Graduation ceremonies are corporate events that celebrate the academic achievement of a diverse group of people; this graduate commandeered it for her private use, behavior which is selfish, rude, and an obvious abuse of norms.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

This is a good reminder that the wages of the chaos and disorder from unlawful dirt bike riding is deaths like these, and the people who cry bloody murder when laws are enforced should be ignored

[MolotovFlicker Ignoring Your Questions Since 1902® @MolotovFlicker]

An officer watches as his colleagues try to reduce tension at the site of a fatal crash from across the street. Police said a 37-year-old man was killed when the dirt bike he was riding collided with an SUV.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

The general orientation against AI of (secular) leftism and (religious) conservatism is one of the more interesting alignments I've seen in the past year or two. I've not seen much on this confluence and I think there's a lot to say about it. https://t.co/jw0AKaXmQa

[Matt Post @mjpost]

This is the first time I've seen the GVRS's mechanism explained in a way that doesn't require me to ignore what I know about human nature, and therefore allows me to believe in it. Great article.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

This "both and" approach to homicide prevention in Baltimore makes a lot of sense—and if there's anyone that could convince me of the importance of the services side, it's a law-and-order believer like @CharlesFLehman

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

Appreciate the @DouthatNYT shout out.

And yes, I think Baltimore got safer because the city started taking crime seriously *as crime*—not as the product of disadvantage, but as a serious social harm to be dealt with in its own right.

Ross's column: https://t.co/vukw3xuMYG
My reporting @TheFP on Baltimore: https://t.co/VzPBFFjYYz

[Matt Post @mjpost]

Gun violence intervention programs accelerate crime prevention, but only in the setting where enforcement is real. Without enforcement, there's no incentive to seek alternatives.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

@G_S_Bhogal @JonathanShedler So many examples of this, it should just be common background knowledge instead of a revelation. "The worst are full of passionate intensity"; "virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience"; Lewis' quote on tyranny.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

The facts are all on the pro-bike-lane side:

- freedom: bike lanes enable new forms of transportation
- safety: bike lanes make streets safer for walkers, riders, and drivers
- cost: bike lanes are cheap and enable people to get around without an expensive car
- responsibility: bike lanes provide visual cues and physical constraints that enforce a social contract

Don't let your dislike for a small group of extremists (anti-car "greens") overtake your reasoning here.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

@AJManaseer Helmets are useless against the reckless driving that dominates streets like Baltimore. Bike lanes separate riders from those drivers and, much more importantly, also slow them down. The biggest win for biker safety (and thus for freedom) is to slow down bad drivers.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

@meatballtimes @tracewoodgrains @heygurisingh @pangram Plenty of record of this on the open internet.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

@alex_prompter This is not a fair characterization because (a) the original data is still accessible to everyone and (b) there is a gargantuan value-add on the sell-back.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

@yoavgo I think people are very sensitive to pay cuts. Another factor is that each employee costs the employer way more than salary, so it would be more like (lay off x%) vs (cut salaries by λx%), where λ=1.75 or 2.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

@yuvalpi @mayhewsw I do fear at this point the hype has been building too long. We should have been slowly lowering expectations after the initial purchase.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

I'm trying to imagine the confidence that is required---the disdain for convention; the piercing insight into human need, desire, and taste; the technical mastery; the sheer hubris, even---to be a candy company exec ca. 2019, munching through the morning's first box of Nerds, thinking, "I could make this better", and then actually pulling it off with Nerds Gummy Clusters.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

@BaltimoreBanner Too bad he didn't have time to stop by the Bikemore offices

[Matt Post @mjpost]

@SketchesbyBoze The slower pace enabled by a miniseries helps a lot.