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For anyone curious about the events that led to this decision, I made a timeline that shows how it happened: https://alexjoneslies.com/

I actually made a timeline of his harassment towards the Sandy Hook families, and then his denials of it in court.

https://alexjoneslies.com/

> My former colleague Rebecca Parsons, has been saying for a long time that hallucinations aren’t a bug of LLMs, they are a feature. Indeed they are the feature. All an LLM does is produce hallucinations, it’s just that we find some of them useful.

What a great way of framing it. I've been trying to explain this to people, but this is a succinct version of what I was stumbling to convey.

This is the general idea of the Tangle newsletter [1]. They pick a topic from the news and provide "What the Right is saying" and "What the Left is saying" about the topic.

[1] https://www.readtangle.com/

A group of coworker friends and I used to find the most creative ways to mess with each others' computers if they were left unattended. Some of the ones I can remember off the top of my head:

1. A Chrome extension that slowly rotated every <div> on the page (think 1 degree every 10 minutes). Would be hard to notice unless a page had been left open for a while. 2. Another Chrome extension that would redirect to a full-screen gif of John Cena that would only load after a random number of page loads. 3. A horn sound that would play after every successful git commit, regardless of computer volume. 4. A Slack bot that would scrape another coworker's insufferable Reddit comments, store them in a database, and then use ML to interject the comments into our conversations based on some basic NLP. This one was my favorite.

Just listened to the Search Engine podcast episode [1] where the author talked about this story. It's wild. The author (Joseph Cox) is also a founder of 404 Media[2], which is a great tech blog.

[1] https://www.searchengine.show/listen/search-engine-1/what-s-... [2] https://www.404media.co/

Oh this is fascinating. I'll have to keep an eye on the Tom Brady data since I was already doing something similar by hand for tracking all of his TDs [1]. I've wanted more detailed data for the data visualization piece of it [2] but it's a lot of work.

[1] https://tombradytds.com [2] https://tombradytds.com/viz.php

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How is the government stealing your income or destroying the value of your property? Seems a bit hyperbolic.

And if the free market solves this, why are we in this situation in the first place? Shouldn't the free market have solved this already? Instead we have piles of empty houses/buildings and more homeless than ever before.

"In 2018, Yiannopoulos told at least two news organisations who had requested comments that he wanted vigilantes to shoot journalists. He wrote in a text message 'I can't wait for vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight'."

This is how I do it too. I build websites for other people for a living, so if I have a side project I just want to build something I like. And if I don't worry about making money with it, I don't feel the pressure to build for others and can do it for they joy of creating something. Which is why I got into this profession in the first place.

I just got finished listening to the most recent episode of Darknet Diaries this morning on the way into the office! It was about similar companies to the NSO group: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/137/

Awesome, just the answer I was hoping for!

This looks like a really cool idea. A question though: who holds the rights to the created audio? The user, or Wondercraft?

Hate to be the bearer of bad news...

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24841937/I...

Out of curiosity, why are the docs/founder vehemently against this implementation? Seems pretty concise to me.

> The day after the outpouring of criticism, Vargas sent out another companywide email, according to employees. “It said: ‘We read all your comments. We understand and we appreciate them. But we’re still moving forward,’” one Farmers employee said.

Sounds like you may read them, but you don't understand or appreciate them, Mr. Vargas.

Do you have a source for this? From everything I've researched, it's actually a chemical imbalance that affects the management of dopamine in the brain, making it hard to focus.

I would argue that perhaps both are the bad guys in this situation.

This is common in people with ADHD. Focus is an issue unless there's a stimulus provided: either joy or fear. Which is why those of us with ADHD will either hyper-focus on only what they enjoy unless there's the pressure of a deadline to kick-start the motivation to focus.

Can't recommend https://www.photopea.com/ enough. Free Photoshop alternative in the browser. Works for all the small edits I tend to do.

I'm the product of a Montessori preschool environment, as are my 3 siblings. My mother owned a Montessori school, and my wife has taught in a Montessori school for over a decade.

The most common thing you'll find are Montessori preschools (3-6 years old). The biggest thing I got out of it was the love of learning. Children in a Montessori classroom are able to learn at their own pace, so if you gravitate towards numbers before reading, that's facilitated. Other way around? No biggie. It turns out child development at that age is pretty flexible, and most children all get to where they're supposed to be by the end of those 3 years.

The other benefit is the mixed-age classrooms. Younger kids are able to see the older children as role models, and the older children are able to _be_ that role model for the newer kids. All of this together creates an environment that often graduates children that seem to be more confident in themselves and in their innate abilities.

I will say that transitioning to a traditional school in first grade was a bit of a culture shock, but the lessons learned in Montessori definitely carried over. I still have that love of learning, and a strong inner voice.

My wife's school is Montessori through 8th grade, and her experience is that the children that graduate excel in whichever high school setting they go to, but this is of course anecdotal.

One of the main problems with Montessori schools is that anyone can call themselves a Montessori school, since Montessori is more of a philosophy rather than a certified set of rules/guidelines.

So the quality of Montessori schools can vary greatly even down to the classroom/teacher level, due to a lack of standardization on teacher education, teacher training philosophies, and school philosophies.

This is not true. My wife has taught in a Montessori classroom for over a decade, and the children who get the most out of it are the ones who would be labeled as "problematic" in other environments.

Andy Ngo isn't exactly a reliable source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Ngo#Credibility

1. Separate health care from employment. 2. Four day work weeks for the same pay. 3. Tax wealthy corporations fairly to provide more social services for those who can't work.

Would be a good start.

I think the idea is not that the design is without a grid, but more on how it handles being resized. The video in the article does a good job of explaining it.

Not if the wealthy campaigned to keep the minimum wage below a living wage for the sake of a higher profit, while also subsidizing the welfare system so the taxpayers pick up the bill instead of the company owners.

Creating a company _should_ be collaborative, but our current capitalist system has actually become more exploitative.

I will say that I was diagnosed after college with ADHD and was given a prescription for Adderall. I get the feeling it was from a "script farm," so I didn't get anything more than a "yes you have ADHD, here's some drugs."

I tried the Adderall and the focus I always lacked was there; it felt almost like a super power. I explain it like being Cyclops from X-Men. I had this laser beam of focus: whatever I looked at I could focus on for as long as I wanted. But it also felt a bit like a performance enhancing drug, and something that was changing who I was by changing my brain, so I stopped taking it.

Recently I've started seeing a therapist who explained that my ADHD is not a deficit of attention, but a different way of how my brain works. Since I'm always thinking about a ton of things all at once I'm able to tie things together better than a lot of people I've worked with (or been in school with). If there's a crisis situation things slow way down for me and I'm able to think really clearly in the moment, instead of panicking.

The best part was that it was explained to me that if I ever needed to focus the way other people do (on things that I struggle to focus on), I can always temporarily "switch" my thinking by taking an ADHD drug.

TLDR: Initially rejected diagnosis, but have accepted it thanks to a better explanation from a professional.

Bet against Tom Brady at your own peril!