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Time to re-read “On Tyranny” by @TimothyDSnyder , lesson 1 youtube.com/watch?v=9tocssf3…
Absolutely brilliant episode as usual…
I’m sure this is a terrible programmerly simplification but, I want to ask— is the issue in Pulsifer about whether “and not” is the same as “not and”?
NEW EPISODE: We recap the first week of the Court's term-arguments about tester standing/civil rights; federal sentencing/corpus linguistics; & ... the future of the CFPB, the administrative state, & uses of history.
All in all: Not Especially Judicious
crooked.com/podcast/not-espe…
I want to ask— is the issue in Pulsifer about whether “and not” is the same as “not and”?
I bought an orange and a pear
Can be negated as
I didn’t buy an orange or a pear.
=I bought neither an orange nor a pear
= I didn’t buy an orange and I didn’t buy a pear
In case anybody needed the reminder, Canada and Britain were not allied with the Soviet Union during the WHOLE of the Second World War.
Between September 1939 and June 1941, Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich were allies.
Asimov had a story - Galley Slave - about an academic who made a robot to correct the proofs (galleys) of academic writing. Is there an interesting echo here with GPT models? @parismarx @emilymbender
More broadly, has anyone looked at early Sci-Fi in light of current AI hype?
Why root-cause when you can nuke and repave? Excellent explanation here.
Nuke-and-pave works for one-off issues.
But when the one-off issue turns into an epidemic, an attractor consuming the fleet, then the only way out is through.
And the root will lead you through.
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Root cause understanding for remediation at scale in future instances it craps itself. I was NOT expecting it to be this hard and eventually just said fuck it and that plan worked...
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Two new Nature papers out both assessing effectiveness of NHS Test & Trace app.
Both estimate that depsite only 25% of people using it and imperfect adherence, it still prevented 100,000s cases & saved 1000s lives.
Imagine if we could have got test & trace working better! 1/2
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The last decision today is Moore v. Harper.
Chief Justice writes, rejecting the independent state legislature theory.
PHEW!
Here is the link: supremecourt.gov/opinions/22…
#SupremeCourt #SCOTUS
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Second #SCOTUS ruling is Counterman v. Colorado
Kagan writing for 7-2 Court
Speaker must have some subjective understanding that speech was threatening in order to count as a true threat, but need only be recklessness
Here is the link: supremecourt.gov/opinions/22…
#SupremeCourt
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First Supreme Court decision today is Mallory v. Norfolk Southern
Gorsuch writing about personal jurisdiction
Here is the link: supremecourt.gov/opinions/22…
#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt
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As a First Amdt prof, I am particularly awaiting SCOTUS decisions in:
Counterman (true threats),
Groff (Title VII religious accommodations) &
303 Creative (free speech right to disc against LGBTQ in public accommodations)
Next week will be busy!
#SupremeCourt #SCOTUS
