[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 4 points 9 hours ago

That's the crazy thing about math: it's completely objective and devoid of assumptions!

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 4 points 13 hours ago

True, it's just funny that autopsy is the more technically correct term.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 13 points 13 hours ago

:didi-and-gogo:

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 14 points 13 hours ago

We can't call the election until we have a statistically valid sample. New rule: every November we'll have an election per day until the 95% confidence intervals no longer overlap. Every 20 presidents we'll have a meta-analysis to see which one was the statistical error and annul everything that happened during their term.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 6 points 14 hours ago

post mortem

I mean if we're being prescriptivist about it, "autopsy" is preferable because it's a noun while postmortem is an adjective, the terms "autopsy" and "postmortem examination" being synonyms.

grossAnd I do kind of like the ring of "autopsy" because it evokes a sense of pulling all the organs out and sticking them in jar full of formaldehyde for display and to poke at in the future, because if 2016 is any indication the examination is going to last a good long while. Maybe we should start calling it a "mummification."

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

Typical Commiefornia amirite?

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago

It's not just the vote, people who have the energy to show up to protest have the energy to go out and knock on doors, raise funds, evangelize to friends and neighbors. The "well there's no rational alternative so I guess I have no choice" folks will vote for you, but they won't do anything to get anyone else's vote.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Looks like the liberal-to-that-which-they-claim-to-hate pipeline is operating at record efficiency.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago

Wait I didn't know we were signing up for inflicting fates on dynasties. That sounds awesome! lenin-laugh

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

Spaghetti Western Leftists: "Does this mean Kamala is the Man in Black, or is the system the Man in Black?"

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 70 points 2 days ago

They're never going to give you ranked choice voting, Adam football-lucy

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

The threat of termination shock seems like all the reason you'd ever need to not want to do this. It would be like handing a nation or group of nations a whole new style of nuke, except this one has a dead man's switch and can't be decommissioned.

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According to Michael Roberts, that figure is currently at $1.3 tn including private investment, with only $100 bn in climate finance to poorer countries

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There's a beautiful 20-year-old citation that doesn't map to anything that he's saying and seems from the abstract to be critical of microfinance as an enterprise.

This post brought to you by the Grameen Bank guy apparently being put in charge in Bangladesh? His bank said they had to charge 15% interest on microloans to break even and people were struggling to see the benefits back in 1998.

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Oil companies lobbied for - and received in the Inflation Reduction Act - better subsidies for carbon capture and storage while overstating its efficacy and selling captured CO2 for new oil extraction

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Vote Yellowstone Supervolcano for Erupting and Finally Putting a Stop to All This Nonsense 2024

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Mandatory reading for new users (press.princeton.edu)
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The big AI models are running out of training data (and it turns out most of the training data was produced by fools and the intentionally obtuse), so this might mark the end of rapid model advancement

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Oh no, our system that enables frauds and liars who engage in relentless self promotion over people with actual capability has generated another disrobed emperor shocked-pikachu

"He's one of the more intellectually dishonest guys in tech," another said at the time."I've had plenty of meetings with him where he says things where I'm like, 'That just cannot possibly be true,' but he can kinda get away with it."

The cherry on top:

Axel Springer, Business Insider's parent company, has a global deal to allow OpenAI to train its models on its media brands' reporting

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