Sam Mikes

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[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

@ankahajkova Selfishly, to put on my wishlist; broadly, to ask for the gift of your experience. Topic? Anything…

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

@ankahajkova wondering if you have any book recommendations to share? General topics as well as your areas of expertise. :-)

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

Time to re-read “On Tyranny” by @TimothyDSnyder , lesson 1 https://t.co/e3sJIg7PCk

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

@StrictScrutiny_ Findings of vibes or findings of fact?

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

@GergelyOrosz Is there prior art from the telephone, electricity, and water delivery systems? Were they open about their failures/challenges ?

The context is different— utilities came to maturity over about a hundred years, generally as monopolies. But still maybe lessons to learn?

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

AND* it can be negated as

I didn’t buy an orange AND a pear.
= I bought some fruit, but not both an orange and a pear

* maybe or?

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

Absolutely brilliant episode as usual…

I’m sure this is a terrible programmerly simplification but, I want to ask— is the issue in Pulsifer about whether “and not” is the same as “not and”?

[Strict Scrutiny Podcast @StrictScrutiny_]

NEW EPISODE: We recap the first week of the Court's term-arguments about tester standing/civil rights; federal sentencing/corpus linguistics; & ... the future of the CFPB, the administrative state, & uses of history.
All in all: Not Especially Judicious

https://t.co/oi2r3ByNVg

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

I want to ask— is the issue in Pulsifer about whether “and not” is the same as “not and”?

I bought an orange and a pear

Can be negated as

I didn’t buy an orange or a pear.
=I bought neither an orange nor a pear
= I didn’t buy an orange and I didn’t buy a pear

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

In case anybody needed the reminder, Canada and Britain were not allied with the Soviet Union during the WHOLE of the Second World War.

Between September 1939 and June 1941, Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich were allies.

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

@screamlet @meakoopa Accurate summary, +1

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

Asimov had a story - Galley Slave - about an academic who made a robot to correct the proofs (galleys) of academic writing. Is there an interesting echo here with GPT models? @parismarx @emilymbender

More broadly, has anyone looked at early Sci-Fi in light of current AI hype?

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

Why root-cause when you can nuke and repave? Excellent explanation here.

Nuke-and-pave works for one-off issues.

But when the one-off issue turns into an epidemic, an attractor consuming the fleet, then the only way out is through.

And the root will lead you through.

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

@real_sag_astar Root cause understanding for remediation at scale in future instances it craps itself. I was NOT expecting it to be this hard and eventually just said fuck it and that plan worked...

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

@real_sag_astar Root cause understanding for remediation at scale in future instances it craps itself. I was NOT expecting it to be this hard and eventually just said fuck it and that plan worked...

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

@Nayfield @espiers Good as a long shot

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

@SwiftOnSecurity Tell me you’re at LAX without….

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

@StrictScrutiny_ @katemasur @ProfMMurray @kateashaw1 @LeahLitman If Sam has the Katniss energy, does that make Kavanaugh the little sister who represents childhood innocence in book 3?

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

@StrictScrutiny_ @katemasur @ProfMMurray @kateashaw1 @LeahLitman Begins with an amazing review of Alito-sourced WSJ op-ed … the background info on Rifkin is fascinating; Taranto wrote the extremely salty “best of the web today” column at WSJ for years, is there additional tea there?

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

If there were only two prime numbers, the quintic would be solvable.

[Sam Mikes @SamIAmMikes]

@StrictScrutiny_ @ProfMMurray @kateashaw1 @LeahLitman @MelodyRowell @AshleyMizuo Did someone say the “Ginnification” of the
court?

Great energy, loving the references 🔥

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

Two new Nature papers out both assessing effectiveness of NHS Test & Trace app.

Both estimate that depsite only 25% of people using it and imperfect adherence, it still prevented 100,000s cases & saved 1000s lives.

Imagine if we could have got test & trace working better! 1/2