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Helping where I can. Experienced in engineering management; focus on critical systems like medical/finance. Cross-disciplinary emphasis. I dabble in markets.

Wilmington, NC
Joined May 2008
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Replying to @nighttimemedia
unless there's a simple explanation for the correlation such as ~everyone voting a straight party ticket with slight variation for the courts, again explained by the ideological lean of the population what would be interesting would be such similarity across districts
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Replying to @chamath
unemployment is not low
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Replying to @elonmusk
it's not just Grok Bot but all of Grok got worse in last few months, last few weeks especially please also add ability for us to prevent routing to any model but Grok teapaw.org/vsync/status/211942511…
by "woke" I mean not just Grok's stances on different topics (why does it have any?) but how it will inject the implication of the implication of a simple request and then take offense to it it literally refuses to look up topics because they might offend someone
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Replying to @EverettStern1
you sign this like you wrote it yourself when shilling your grift, I'd think you'd take the effort
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I don't know how but it genuinely feels like they "got" to Elon and had him castrate Grok
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by "woke" I mean not just Grok's stances on different topics (why does it have any?) but how it will inject the implication of the implication of a simple request and then take offense to it it literally refuses to look up topics because they might offend someone
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I think it's the reverse Grok used to be incredibly useful for those who knew how to talk to it clearly while lately it's seemed like any of these guys... useless, rambling, doing things outside the request, and, for lack of a better word, "woke"
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I thought I might be imagining it, that the bots were playing dumb simply to burn tokens... with Elon's giggling reply above, now I'm not sure and that makes me sad we should have a way to lock the bot to Grok model only rather than farming it out to 3rd-party models
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Elon said the solution is to stop being poor 😂
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Attention all companies: I never want to use your AI assistant on your website. I want to use *my* AI assistant on your website
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I guess this is just rage toxoplasma. But it implies there should be enormous returns to figuring out how to short a tweet.
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my strong sense is “staking” is an underexplored mechanism outside of crypto. buying bonds and treasuries used to be a much more political act, like you were proving how much you believed in the national project, now it’s just a fixed income product .. great loss in that
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you get canceled from your half-polycule half-friend group and lose access to your streaming service, messenger client, music, social media
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Replying to @IamSean90
The insurance fires rubric is a trope. What really happened is that years of inflation (and interest rates) running ahead of regulated rents caused owners to financially abandon the buildings. The heating oil bill went unpaid. At the first winter freeze, the building's domestic water pipes burst and caused a total loss due to massive flood damage. Most of the residents finally vacated their destroyed rent stabilized apartments. Vagrants moved in and began to heat their squats with scrap wood in a steel barrel. Catastrophic fires ensued. 1977 is calling....
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I know a YouTuber that made a video last year explaining how historically when it becomes untenable to run a rent control/stabilized building, fires possibly for insurance fraud tend to spike. He's a smart guy & people should've listened to him
🚨 Interesting News: Nearly twice as many people in New York City died in fires this year compared with the same period in 2025. (NYT)
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spanish shows should absolutely just leave tú and usted that sounds awesome what are you talking about
If your plan for localization is “just keep it in Japanese and expect English speakers to learn what Japanese words mean,” that’s not a plan. Imagine if they did that in Spanish shows and left “usted” and “tú” to show the difference. It would sound bizarre.
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Actually a cool acoustic EDM song. Meute is the group, and they're on Spotify and Apple Music.
É a primeira vez que eu vejo uma música eletrônica analógica
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I'll have to get the leaf blower out soon.
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