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I'm going to make my own Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, with blackjack and hookers.

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@eigenrobot Did they ever get that amnesty?

[Dr. Ben Braddock @GraduatedBen]

The “shortage” of advanced munitions, THAAD, Patriot interceptors, etc is entirely a problem of our own choosing.

Let America’s teenagers work for Lockheed Martin again.

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@yacineMTB I had coffee once with Todorov, the PI of mujoco, as he was transitioning out of neuroscience to do this: hell of a guy, even the classic EE/Control guys respected him. Glad to see a win like this.

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@hthieblot addicted to noise

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@yacineMTB In ancient times, Microsoft would ask brainteasers, like why are Manhole covers round, and by mid-year, even me (grad school not industry track) had heard all the Q's and A's.

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In 2012 Facebook published a study doing this explicitly: https://t.co/qLHshtoPvN posting for younger audiences who might not know how open companies were about what was happening in the now-old days. I even met a few of these researchers shortly after, and they've all gone dark since 2016: I suspect the technology has not gotten worse.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Tech VC’s thought AI was sentient because they had never read books and hence the LLM was beyond anything they had ever seen.

[Lewis 🇺🇸 @ctjlewis]

Every PhD who was asked to do a Leetcode problem by some idiot, I stand with you. Your research skills had nothing to do with competitive coding problems. It was a scam.

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This mirrors my experience at [rustbelt CS powerhouse]: I returned to a research role after 20 years, shocked at the change. The lab seemed to produce nothing but prompt engineering, buggy web apps that constantly crashed, and developers who locked me out of the repos but also then blamed all failures on me. The PI loved to talk about how "the new students are much better software engineers" but was the type to bounce halfway though the demo, her eyes glazed over at any description of failure points, liabilities. Never seeemd to notice her entire teaching staff was from one of the two countries that made up the master's program, she thought perhaps country B has less assertive statements. Loved to say how bad Americans were at this, then corrected herself when she'd remember I went there. Couldn't help noticing said program once used to praise itself for NOT having a master's degree, not even an undergrad program until the early 90s, but that's lost to history. Couldn't help noticing students may be international, but not from Tsinghua and IIT anymore. I think the profs, managers, PIs, etc all slowly became less technical and turned a blind eye to the rot.

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@Indian_Bronson This is the actual product of M.I.A.'s clothing line, if you read the ad copy, they want the right to be surveilled. Wearable faraday cages may not be it, but the underlying psychological need is there. https://t.co/BblpsM53RE

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@mattparlmer No pubs just very excited to show off his collection of obscure engineering books and lathes. Experimental physicists are the true alpha.

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@mattparlmer Not that there's any practical purpose whatsoever, but how much logic could a fluidic inertial navigation system possibly require?

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@favelaoverlord I was talking about this weekend and I was like you know doing nothing is still a choice

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@bronzeagemantis Club Appalachian Excellent

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@CoreyLeander @StanislamUlam @Noahpinion One of the guys who developed MRI was a young earth creationist.

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@BjorkBrodern @BlindlyFollow Wait is this a serious question? AC was literally invented for factories, home use came later. Not for comfort, for the process consistency (and humidity control).

[ErikDPrince @realErikDPrince]

I was just in Haiti. This is not the end, or even the beginning of the end, but definitely the end of the beginning. (Paraphrasing Churchill) Progress is being made. It is definitely better than when we started, with Haiti on the verge of total collapse a year ago. Stay tuned as we work with the Haitian Government to open more roads and remove the scourge of gang control.

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@escapefrommelos