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“There is no normal life, Wyatt. There’s just life.” -Doc Holiday

[Taylor Pearson @TaylorPearsonMe]

Running 20 agents in parallel feels productive but I don't think it usually is. From my recent piece on the AI knowledge work stack:

"Agents are only as good at their task as the model and instructions allow them to be. Just like over-hiring and under-training employees can lead to lots of people doing useless (or actively harmful) things, so too with agents.

I see many people in the same trap Eli Goldratt described in his book on manufacturing efficiency, The Goal. Factories were optimizing for machine utilization with the goal of every machine running 24 hours a day. Goldratt pointed out that what manufacturing facilities really cared about wasn't machine utilization, but finished products they could sell.

Imagine a three-station assembly line: stations 1 and 2 can each crank out 200 widgets an hour, but station 3 can only handle 100. Running stations 1 and 2 flat-out doesn't ship more product, it just piles up half-finished widgets in front of station 3 and creates more work managing the pile. Running fifty agents in parallel is the same fallacy at higher resolution: if the bottleneck in your work is figuring out what's worth doing, more agents just generate more output for you to wade through."

The bottleneck is rarely how many agents you can run. It's deciding what's worth executing. Full piece:

[Scott @VolatilityWiz]

Nobody doing anything in the SPY/QQQ, it's all SOXL/AMDL/TQQQ/MUU/SNXX/NVDL etc

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@shagbark_hick If you can make it over another 50 minutes west you get into the mountains. Old fort, black mountain (my town) lots of great small towns. Western NC is the best place I’ve lived in the South, and I’ve lived in GA, VA, TN, TX, middle NC, and spent lots of time in SC, Bama, FL etc

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@JDVance What we saw. It’s not about what happened which could very well have been sheer incompetence as opposed to execution. But it was one or the other. It was definitely not a law abiding citizen intending to massacre anyone. Don’t treat us like we’re idiots

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@JDVance I have really liked you and all you stood for JD.But this a huge moment for the future of the Republican Party and whether or not you’re going to lose the respect and votes of a mass of millennials and gen z moderates and conservatives. We’re all intelligent citizens. We saw…

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@kashyap286 Pretty sure he meant 13 percent for his total equity, not that he set his stop loss at 13% higher for silver

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@WillManidis @grok who is this snippet referring to?

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@WhiteHouse @donnelly_brent can this count as an economist cover?

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@mattvanswol visit us at St Anthony the Great Orthodox Church in Hendersonville if you want something more than that. I live in Black Mountain and drive almost an hour with my family every Sunday to go. Original and Ancient Christianity is a little (or lot) different than what we have now

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@options_insight VIX

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@dieworkwear Depends on which interpretations of Christianity you’re coming from. Only the western forms, and particularly evangelical Protestantism, place emphasis on confession and stated belief as the means of salvation.

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@shagbark_hick I would’ve pegged you as more EO leaning bc you seem in the lineage of a Paul kingsnorth. But I’m glad you’ve found an avenue to to relate with the Creator either way!

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@shagbark_hick Why not just let orthodoxy flourish alongside RC? Plus the dividing line for many in joining one or the other is over the question or a more centralized or decentralized institution. So just adding the eastern elements doesn’t really address that

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@RealBenLuigi @grok what is this?

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@grok @InternetH0F I mean the music in the background

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@GoshawkTrades @grok what interview is this from?

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@DokaKuri @edgeful @readwise save thread

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@swingtrader Come up to the mountains in North Carolina. Have 3/4 acre lot but can’t see my neighbors thru the woods and have 8 chickens

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@AkaashSingh @andrewschulz sounds like yall need to check out orthodoxy, Wes huff’s answers to your hangups and questions are a uniquely Protestant take and not the position of other forms of Christianity, specifically eastern orthodoxy.