John the Scott

Bounty Coder,
Merchant of Light

[John the Scott @setspace]

@maptheclouds broken like to code library, at lower left corner of page at https://t.co/tB5JvZfvrd

[John the Scott @setspace]

@MissLadyLee @neuralink i should have never sold https://t.co/5F8C8SELwv

[Yegor Denisov-Blanch @yegordb]

I’m at Stanford and I research software engineering productivity.

We have data on the performance of >50k engineers from 100s of companies.

Inspired by @deedydas, our research shows:

~9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers (0.1x-ers)

[John the Scott @setspace]

@MarinaMedvin so. dallas has muslims.

[Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ @ESYudkowsky]

The least beautiful equation in mathematics.

[Simon Eskildsen @Sirupsen]

the only thing that scales quickly is simplicity

[John the Scott @setspace]

@sama ai discovers advaita vedanta

[John the Scott @setspace]

@DataRepublican how large is the data set?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:

- Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.

- All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!

- The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored. Also, it can currently take up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list should be updated at least weekly, if not daily.

The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE. It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already!

Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.

When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!!

This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.

[Nathan Lambert @natolambert]

Stoked to get to talk to @lexfridman + my homie @dylan522p for 5+ hours to try and get to the bottom of what is actually happening in AI right now.

DeepSeek R1 & V3, China v US, open vs closed, decreasing hype, datacenters, everything in between...

🚀 what a fun whirlwind week

[John the Scott @setspace]

Altermagnetism: A new type of magnetism, with broad implications for technology and research https://t.co/LTIGYuDFhg via @physorg_com

[Hosun Chung @hosun_chung]

Marc Andreessen just shocked the world on JRE.

He revealed the government is:

• Kicking people off banking networks
• Using NGOs to do their dirty work
• Secretly trying to control AI

I took a day to digest it all...

And these are the 11 things I can't stop thinking about:

[John the Scott @setspace]

DOGE?

[John the Scott @setspace]

artificial intelligence is for those who need it.

https://t.co/umCtRYHvtE

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Communists like capitalists because the capitalists build the things the communists plan to seize.

[CMU School of Computer Science @SCSatCMU]

Geoffrey Hinton is the second person ever to earn both a Turing Award and a Nobel Prize. The first? CMU's Herb Simon.
https://t.co/IRXgkuiLR8

[George @BehizyTweets]

The way Steve Garvey immediately called out Adam Schiff at the start of the debate was awesome. I hope Californians shock the nation by electing Garvey

"Mr. Schiff has been a congressman for 24 years... the policies he's going to talk about tonight are the policies he hasn't been able to do anything about."

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

That moment when someone says, "I can't believe you would vote for Trump.”
I simply reply, “I'm not voting for Trump.”

I'm voting for the First Amendment and freedom of speech.

I'm voting for the Second Amendment and my right to defend my life and my family.

I'm voting for the next Supreme Court Justice(s) to protect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I’m voting for the continued growth of my retirement and reducing inflation.

I’m voting for a return of our troops from foreign countries and the end to America’s involvement in foreign conflicts.

I'm voting for the Electoral College and for the Republic in which we live.

I'm voting for the Police to be respected once again and to ensure Law & Order. I am tired of all the criminals having a revolving door and being put back in the street.

I’m voting for the continued appointment of Federal Judges who respect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I’m voting for keeping our jobs to remain in America and not be outsourced all over the world - to China, Mexico and other foreign countries. I want USA made.

I’m voting for secure borders and have legal immigration. I can’t believe we have actually have flown 380,000 illegal immigrants into our country. I am voting for doing away with all of the freebies given to all of the illegals and not looking after the needs of the American citizens.

I'm voting for the Military & the Veterans who fought for this Country to give the American people their freedoms.

I'm voting for the unborn babies that have a right to live.

I’m voting for peace progress in the Middle East.

I’m voting to fight against human/child trafficking.

I'm voting for Freedom of Religion.

I'm voting for the right to speak my opinion and not be censored. I am voting for the return of teaching math, history, and science instead of indoctrination of our children and pronouns.

I'm not just voting for one person, I'm voting for the future of my Country.

I'm voting for my children and my grandchildren to ensure their freedoms and their future.

[John the Scott @setspace]

@JosBtrigga @AnomolousPolicy your eloquence was breath taking, speaking of being light headed.

[John the Scott @setspace]

WATCH: Activist Obliterates 'No-Ball' Quack 'Economist' Paul Krugman in Explosive Speech on the Economy and Hurricane Helene During Event at a Local College in New York City https://t.co/TF5Ou28Mty #gatewaypundit via @gatewaypundit