Josh You
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Josh You
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- Mark Zuckerberg argues that it doesn't matter that China has access to open weights, because they will just steal weights anyway if they're closed. Pretty remarkable.
- Reminds me of an Ezra Klein–Matt Yglesias podcast back in the day about the platinum coin Ezra: "Now, I don't know how many dimes are in a trillion dollars, but..." Matt: "It's 10 trillion dimes" Ezra: "Fuck you"I'm continually surprised by how rare mental arithmetic skill is among technical people. It's about as hard to learn as riding a bike (ie not hard) and it puts first principles thinking on warp drive. With daily practice you can quickly get faster results than using a calculator
- Reading this on the bus and shaking my head during the whole first half and nodding during the second half
- Replying to @lastpositivist"I'm not thinking of any particular word" narrator:
- Fun fact: oil now costs the same in Fahrenheit and CelsiusI took my eye off of oil for a second, because I thought all the fireworks kind of happened when it went negative. But I have to admit that seeing it trade at *-$40* a barrel is quite something!! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
- No, we should not drop the only admissions metric that is not explicitly tied to which school and social networks kids belong toReplying to @drlungamamReminder: Some colleges & universities have stopped requiring the SAT & ACT that reinforce race & class disparities & poorly predict success. Many have temporarily suspended their use during covid. Please encourage your local schools to do the same & make these changes permanent.
Degrowtherism in the pages of Scientific American. How far the mighty have fallen...- A prominent Amazon employee who advocated for a $15 minimum wage was forced out of his position today 😡
- What does $1200 pay for you in one month? For me? Probably just *some* candles. Not even close. This is an insult.
- Why does this keep happening?????
