Trabo
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Manufacturing really was coming back under Biden.
And now:
And now:
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Manufacturing really was coming back under Biden.
And now:
And now:
This is a great assessment. I think people don’t understand hallucination rates because they think of lllms as an encyclopedia of information when in reality they are more of “decision engines” that can be provided the means to go out and find the relevant information rather than from memory.
This article is now predictably popular on Bsky but key parts of it are, well, hallucinations.
They try to claim "errors are rising" on "new reasoning systems" primarily based on Vectara hallucination leaderboard and one OpenAI document. So let's look what those actually show.
They try to claim "errors are rising" on "new reasoning systems" primarily based on Vectara hallucination leaderboard and one OpenAI document. So let's look what those actually show.
The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.
May 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is a great assessment. I think people don’t understand hallucination rates because they think of lllms as an encyclopedia of information when in reality they are more of “decision engines” that can be provided the means to go out and find the relevant information rather than from memory.
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Let me add something on the new Harvard letter story. The Times portrays it as they'd been negotiating in a kind of inconclusive and then Harvard was shocked at the extremity when it arrived. I had heard a subtly but significantly different version of events. As it was conveyed to me the ...
April 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Let me add something on the new Harvard letter story. The Times portrays it as they'd been negotiating in a kind of inconclusive and then Harvard was shocked at the extremity when it arrived. I had heard a subtly but significantly different version of events. As it was conveyed to me the ...
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Some big Fervo Energy news today. We’re excited to welcome Shell as a new customer at Project Cape. And announce that we are upsizing the project by 100 MW to 500 MW, using the same number of planned wells, due to productivity breakthroughs we have achieved.
www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...
www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...
Houston geothermal company Fervo to sell power from Utah project to Shell Energy
Fervo Energy, a Houston-based geothermal company, will upsize its Cape Station project in Utah to 500 megawatts.
www.houstonchronicle.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Some big Fervo Energy news today. We’re excited to welcome Shell as a new customer at Project Cape. And announce that we are upsizing the project by 100 MW to 500 MW, using the same number of planned wells, due to productivity breakthroughs we have achieved.
www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...
www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...
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Today’s court-ordered DOJ status update on their efforts to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia from ES:
1) yes we definitely know where he is
2) he’s a gang member or whatever (probably)
3) okay see you tomorrow
1) yes we definitely know where he is
2) he’s a gang member or whatever (probably)
3) okay see you tomorrow
April 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Today’s court-ordered DOJ status update on their efforts to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia from ES:
1) yes we definitely know where he is
2) he’s a gang member or whatever (probably)
3) okay see you tomorrow
1) yes we definitely know where he is
2) he’s a gang member or whatever (probably)
3) okay see you tomorrow
Just an FYI if you’re a Canadian living abroad, voting by mail is super easy to apply for, you just need to upload a picture of your passport! www.elections.ca/content2.asp...
Voting by mail – Elections Canada
Apply to vote by mail, Eligible electors can apply to vote by special ballot. With a special ballot, you can vote by mail from anywhere in the world, 2025.
www.elections.ca
April 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Just an FYI if you’re a Canadian living abroad, voting by mail is super easy to apply for, you just need to upload a picture of your passport! www.elections.ca/content2.asp...
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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Jaw dropping: "Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record."
Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record.
Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record.
(This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa)
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
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Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record.
(This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa)
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
1/
March 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Jaw dropping: "Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record."
Every Canadian need to read this. Vote carefully in the upcoming election or it may be the last for our country.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious
President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Every Canadian need to read this. Vote carefully in the upcoming election or it may be the last for our country.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
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Ms. Casey: Your outie likes to freebase methamphetamine
Distressed and visibly sweating severed worker: Wow
Distressed and visibly sweating severed worker: Wow
March 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Ms. Casey: Your outie likes to freebase methamphetamine
Distressed and visibly sweating severed worker: Wow
Distressed and visibly sweating severed worker: Wow
People should be directing their anger at the fires in LA into a serious conversation about how we haven’t done enough to slow climate change, the root cause, and how this is going to only amplify going forward.
January 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
People should be directing their anger at the fires in LA into a serious conversation about how we haven’t done enough to slow climate change, the root cause, and how this is going to only amplify going forward.
In the morning light, great pose
January 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In the morning light, great pose
Immediately after devouring an entire head of broccoli.
January 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Immediately after devouring an entire head of broccoli.
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Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
January 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
Does anyone else feel like it’s time for a new series of Silicon Valley? The content is endless - tech ceos getting into politics - endless ai companies - work from home. The bits write themselves.
December 11, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Does anyone else feel like it’s time for a new series of Silicon Valley? The content is endless - tech ceos getting into politics - endless ai companies - work from home. The bits write themselves.
@techcrunch.com I bought a ticket to strictlyVC SF on Wednesday, you guys charged me, didn’t send me a ticket, and have ghosted 3 separate emails asking for help. I’m this close to a cc chargeback.
December 3, 2024 at 4:16 AM
@techcrunch.com I bought a ticket to strictlyVC SF on Wednesday, you guys charged me, didn’t send me a ticket, and have ghosted 3 separate emails asking for help. I’m this close to a cc chargeback.
Three adorable chickens on the window sill
November 19, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Three adorable chickens on the window sill
What do people really think of this guy? www.npr.org/2024/11/16/n...
Trump announces oil executive Chris Wright as his pick for energy secretary
Trump announced Chris Wright, the CEO of oil and natural gas fracking services company Liberty Energy, as his pick for energy secretary.
www.npr.org
November 19, 2024 at 5:41 PM
What do people really think of this guy? www.npr.org/2024/11/16/n...