Sean Gerrish

Googler, author of How Smart Machines Think. Playing with data at YouTube

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The value of language is the ideas it * you to have.

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@AndrewCMcCarthy This contradicts the administration's own admission in October -- after the attack in question -- that they didn't know who they were killing.

The simplest explanation is that they keep shifting their story to avoid accountability.

https://t.co/EgWaRhcXgn

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@pmddomingos In college I had a Soviet math professor who referenced a different form of "proof by intimidation": He referenced the phrase and then glared at us for a few moments until he was satisfied that we understood the proof, one a few examples of his stern-faced humor in the class.

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@latinos4trump66 @GavinNewsom Except.. entirely false? Highest poverty rate states are in the South West.

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@Google @sundarpichai one of the most obvious improvements to humankind right now would be fixing Android autocorrect with AI. I think you are focusing on the technology more than the solutions. Do you need me to come back to Google to fix it?

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The most rational thing that @elonmusk could do right now is buy Fox News. Trump has more political leverage here, and Trump has the support of Congressional Republicans, who have their base, who consume Fox. It will be expensive, but Murdoch would sell for the right price.

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@QuintenFrancois @elonmusk Look at the change in slope. Clinton brought it down. Obama brought it down. Bush brought it up. Trump brought it way up.

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@dandcaldwell Seems clear what happened here -- they shared embarrassing details with investigator looking at Hegseth on the Signal leaks; investigators tipped Hegseth off, and Hegseth fired these guys to get the upper hand in framing the fallout.

Here's playing the world's smallest violin.

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@BillAckman If you believe everything you see on social media, I have an election to sell you.

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@saras76 This ad isn't targeted at the 10% of the population that bullies men for voting their conscience. It's targeted at the 90% of men with a conscience.

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@elonmusk Elon Musk retweeting tweets from a site known to launder Russian propaganda? Color me shocked. https://t.co/YC77OVmwMo

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@elonmusk What ever happened to Elon? Went from a respected entrepreneur to a right-wing nut who spouts Fox News nonsense in the span of several years. I doubt he would sacrifice his business (which is losing customers) and reputation by overreacting to DEI. something else is wrong w/ him

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@RichardDawkins Perhaps when the public is likely to misunderstand those facts (maybe it is only part of the story) and its release causes more harm than good. E.g. a glass of wine a day is correlated with better health. This is a fact but is misleading due to confounders.

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@SgrA17h45m40s @OpenAI The WSJ's news reporting remains credible even if it's more conservative, but their editorial content is absolute garbage.

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How embarrassing for @OpenAI, first for making such a deal and second for being proud to advertise it. The cherry on top: "In addition to providing content, News Corp will share journalistic expertise..." https://t.co/NOUwKxrU8l

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I'm very much liking LLMs like Bard and ChatGPT for doing rapid research, e.g. for rapidly recommending and summarizing engineering tradeoffs for different technical products. But I dread the inevitable day that tech companies sneak sponsored results into their LLMs' responses.

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@jonbbc Could they have designed the car differently to handle this better? (I assume the answer is "you can engineer it to handle any conditions if the price tag is high enough" -- but do you think they made the right trade-offs for the price?)

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@RobertKennedyJr You're running to siphon votes from the Democrat. Your comment furthers this goal.

The Constitution doesn't say he should be charged; if that were the case, the incumbent could weaponize their justice department to charge their opponent. This should be, and is, up to the courts.

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@BillAckman How is this different from a powerful man's attacks on Harvard's president? Eight missing quotes is kind of a big deal.

So are you claiming Harvard's president's plagiarism was okay, do we have a different standard for the rich, or can we please jst agree that plagiarism is bad?

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@LevanonAdi @paulg I see plenty of anti-Israel sentiment and nobody calling for the genocide of Jews. If you're seeing this during your protests, maybe you should protest with a different group?