Jack Mitcham, Ph.D.

Misread that as "Oops:" and it kinda fits.

I'm sure it was an intentional reference. I just wanted everyone else to have the song in their head too.

Jonathan Coulton - Good Morning Tucson YouTube video by Jonathan Coulton

youtu.be/hJ5y1wHpHUM?...

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Yup, I clicked on a 2 minute video of Jeff Hays doing Dungeon Crawler Carl voices, and now 36% of my YouTube feed is Jeff Hays.

It makes me want to stop clicking on things.

Comma would be wrong, but you should have a hyphen for the compound adjective.

Software engineering has been fundamentally chsnged in the past 3 months.

I like how Nathan Tankus frames it, that they're "conventional wisdom processors." If something isn't "conventional wisdom" it doesn't get counted.

It would be more of a Marine thing than an Army thing, I believe.

Yup. Was expanding on my comment to the very few people who follow me before seeing your response. I type slowly on my phone.

Grammarly was recommended by the professor I TA'd for, and my impression is that it greatly benefited the students. At the very least, it got them higher grades, since grammar was explicitly in the grading rubric.

This is another example of "company does something shitty, therefore their product must not be useful."

As I noted in a response to this, English language learners often get a lot of use out of Grammarly. I taught at the UMass Boston College of Management which was like 40% international students.

Grammarly was a great tool for foreign students to turn in well-written term papers back when I was a TA. It was officially recommended by the professor of the class (who spoke English as a second language himself).

This is such a good metaphor for like half of the things happening.

That's a perfect setting for Seth Skorkowsky. Looking forward to listening to this.

I haven't thought about YTP since undergrad.

I feel like the only one getting better results from Codex than from Claude Code.

Well usually. Tonight, Codex derped out on an easy request. It was very out of character for it.

Kalshi bet on $140+ WTI

I put $3 on it. If nothing else, it's the slightest indirect hedge on filling my tank.

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

Neat

What's My JND? 0.0119
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

You think Iran will just stop fighting when Trump "declares victory" and leaves? On what basis?

Time for Chaos by Glass Cannon Network

It's complicated, because driving up oil prices helps Russia fund the war. I don't know enough to know which effect will have the biggest impact long-term.

My fault, folks. I bought SPY puts, apparently causing the turnaround moments later.

I'll have to take you at your word, because I have literally no idea what he could be referring. I can't tell if it's a gender thing, a race thing, a nationality thing, a skiing thing, or a Ford thing.

Is it just eliminating income tax on individual income 75k or lower? I didn't see the full proposal.

Income tax on 75k or lower makes up what, 4% of the national tax receipts? Wouldn't be hard to make up elsewhere.

You also have an extra semester of teaching experience under your belt, and that helps too.

Ethan Mollick has noted that the skills required for being good at using AI are the same skills required in management.

Pretty sunset

Pretty sunset

If consciousness can't be transient, I wonder if they think you die and become a different person when you're under sedation.

1) Concepts are fuzzy and overlapping. It's the whole idea behind the "is a hot dog a sandwich" debate. "Sandwich" isn't well defined. Neither is "consciousness" which is part of the discourse at the moment.

2) Vectors have both distance and direction. It's what makes it a vector