Nicholas retweeted
I am unironically just sad about the Huang scandal. I liked him. He seemed like a really solid guy & a good CEO
We need more decent people to admire and it sucks to lose of Huang as one of those people
These kids from Palo Alto public high schools. Can’t bet against em that’s for sure.
We released LegalBench in August 2023. In the three years since, it's become one of the more widely used benchmarks for legal AI. In the spirit of critical self-reflection, I wrote some thoughts about (1) what went well, (2) what I wish I'd done differently, and (3) what this all means for the future of legal AI research.
I wanted to highlight a few specific reflections.
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I'd be careful about trying to extrapolate this. For years into the 2008 election it looked like FL would turn red. Then Obama won it and it was a swing state for the next eight years. Also what even is the mechanism of this trend in NYS?
Virginia’s partisan lean, relative to the rest of the country:
2012: 🔵D+0.01
2014: 🔵D+6.59
2016: 🔵D+3.22
2018: 🔵D+7.35
2020: 🔵D+5.65
2022: 🔵D+6.34
2024: 🔵D+7.25
2026: 🔵D+10.17 (provisional)
Virginia is now Bluer than New York.
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People think of her as a golddigger but that's an oversimplification. She has no commitments that actually require billions of dollars, and is worth tens of millions herself. She's into billionaires the way girls are into tall guys or athletes.
Emily Ratajkowski excerpt in her book about Miranda's relationship with Malaysian Billionare who turned out to be a scammer, Jho Low, lives rent free in my head
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Nicholas retweeted
I voted for Romney but not enthusiastically. In hindsight I wish I had left it blank. Total squish.
Replying to @RonDeSantis
‘Ol Mittens Romney.
Can’t believe I so enthusiastically voted for that weasel in ‘12.
Nicholas retweeted
"I just need 6 more dollars. Just 6 bucks. That's all I'm asking for"
- Guy who takes 30 grand from me every year.
Nicholas retweeted
Hard to believe the Darlene Graham era is coming to an end. The Lioness of the Senate!
sometimes i think the lesswrong types are cringe and then i remember what the absolute state of regular academia is and idk maybe they are right about everything after all
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most of the time i feel like hes smart ish but then sometimes i think his account is a parody of a moderate lib
Replying to @shadihamid
If anything a bit more “Islamist” (just broadly traditionalist on cultural values) influence on Democrats would be welcomed by me and many others.
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One of my favourite things about Art Deco is how it gives buildings their own guardians































