Isaiah Bishop
@isaiahbishop.bsky.social
ML Eng. and econometrics. Lot more left-posting than normal. Some hobby-level finance
Regrettably degen trading for the next 3 months, im sorry
Views dont reflect my employer
Regrettably degen trading for the next 3 months, im sorry
Views dont reflect my employer
If people want to do this, we need to learn how to make a bunch of enzymes at scale and it may actually not be possible for cheaper than real meat for a long time
I think what is going to happen is that lab-grown meat will gradually catch up with real animals and when that happens we will all quietly admit that the vegans were right about factory farming
i'm convinced if we ever tried to touch the rail of meat politics in America (something that's going to eventually need to happen in order to reduce CO2 emissions), it would lead to a huge right-wing shock
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
If people want to do this, we need to learn how to make a bunch of enzymes at scale and it may actually not be possible for cheaper than real meat for a long time
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Still seething that my former sainted editor cut my long couple paragraphs about all the ways Andreessen misunderstood the economics of 18th-century whaling. He was so wrong, y’all. Whaling was not like venture capital.
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Still seething that my former sainted editor cut my long couple paragraphs about all the ways Andreessen misunderstood the economics of 18th-century whaling. He was so wrong, y’all. Whaling was not like venture capital.
Specifically theres so much alpha in the books from 1870-1920 and your other friend says "what about the odyssey"
if any of my friends told me there’s so much alpha in books I’d call the cops
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Specifically theres so much alpha in the books from 1870-1920 and your other friend says "what about the odyssey"
Why is edmund fitzgerald so back right now
i've sold more of this beer today than i have in my previous 3 months of working here combined
For the 29 and for the wives and the sons and the daughters.
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Why is edmund fitzgerald so back right now
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Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
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I mention this because this will be a massive source of liabilities in future and it only took 10 years for the CPPIB to be 50% funded by asset returns
we used to run the US govt model until like 1997
we used to run the US govt model until like 1997
is there a reason we dont just have a fund like CPPIB to fund things like OAS/GIS?
i understand EI (high unemployment comes when the fund should be most active and assets performing the worst)
i understand EI (high unemployment comes when the fund should be most active and assets performing the worst)
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I mention this because this will be a massive source of liabilities in future and it only took 10 years for the CPPIB to be 50% funded by asset returns
we used to run the US govt model until like 1997
we used to run the US govt model until like 1997
is there a reason we dont just have a fund like CPPIB to fund things like OAS/GIS?
i understand EI (high unemployment comes when the fund should be most active and assets performing the worst)
i understand EI (high unemployment comes when the fund should be most active and assets performing the worst)
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
is there a reason we dont just have a fund like CPPIB to fund things like OAS/GIS?
i understand EI (high unemployment comes when the fund should be most active and assets performing the worst)
i understand EI (high unemployment comes when the fund should be most active and assets performing the worst)
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actually jar jar binks is a stand in for Québécois
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
actually jar jar binks is a stand in for Québécois
We gotta give it up to the people who made the CPP saving us from having to deal with this
hm. from CATO but you gotta wonder how this ends up looking politically
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We gotta give it up to the people who made the CPP saving us from having to deal with this
Worth saying in terms of mortgage debt markets these are not big numbers
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Worth saying in terms of mortgage debt markets these are not big numbers
Chatbots for search are really good.
Still having an issue with my eye, went to optometrist. No longer hurting, but one eye is slow to focus. She was great but couldnt see anything on eye scan.
Immediately was able to find out what this issue is called, and some academic lit talking about it
Still having an issue with my eye, went to optometrist. No longer hurting, but one eye is slow to focus. She was great but couldnt see anything on eye scan.
Immediately was able to find out what this issue is called, and some academic lit talking about it
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Chatbots for search are really good.
Still having an issue with my eye, went to optometrist. No longer hurting, but one eye is slow to focus. She was great but couldnt see anything on eye scan.
Immediately was able to find out what this issue is called, and some academic lit talking about it
Still having an issue with my eye, went to optometrist. No longer hurting, but one eye is slow to focus. She was great but couldnt see anything on eye scan.
Immediately was able to find out what this issue is called, and some academic lit talking about it
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I reckon a shared national popular culture is just as important (if not more important) than a fact based, impartial news service for liberal democracy to work.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I reckon a shared national popular culture is just as important (if not more important) than a fact based, impartial news service for liberal democracy to work.
This paper does some work evaluating the macro forecasts from the time and they didnt perform that badly!
Very interesting paper. Confirms what we knew from cross-country studies - large, rapid effects. The really interesting part is the firm-level analysis, which shows similar, if somewhat lower, magnitudes.
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This paper does some work evaluating the macro forecasts from the time and they didnt perform that badly!
regardless of your feelings on shutdowns as a tactic. This is just bad practice to say out loud
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
regardless of your feelings on shutdowns as a tactic. This is just bad practice to say out loud
Its crucial to have youth branches in parliamentary system so we can all collect all the people who are neither jock nor theatre kid
Uk political parties keep trying to do youth branches, it's amazing. No matter how many times it ends in horrifying disaster
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Its crucial to have youth branches in parliamentary system so we can all collect all the people who are neither jock nor theatre kid
This is all part of the grand plan to build an anti-china coalition
Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal
Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied
apple.news
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is all part of the grand plan to build an anti-china coalition
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It was a junior analyst at Waterfall Asset Management, a lender into the JPMorgan-run warehousing facility, who first questioned Tricolor’s loan data and collateral - ie. not the bank’s own diligence…
Inside Tricolor’s Frantic Collapse
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Inside Tricolor’s Frantic Collapse
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Tricolor's Frantic End Was Sparked by a Phone Call From JPMorgan
Daniel Chu was in Italy, a world away from the sweltering Texas car lots he had built his fortune on, when his phone lit up.
www.bloomberg.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
It was a junior analyst at Waterfall Asset Management, a lender into the JPMorgan-run warehousing facility, who first questioned Tricolor’s loan data and collateral - ie. not the bank’s own diligence…
Inside Tricolor’s Frantic Collapse
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Inside Tricolor’s Frantic Collapse
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Need someone to explain to me the basics of whats happening here.
Like we are in shutdown, senate passes CR, then the house also needs to pass the same document? or are we just open now?
Like we are in shutdown, senate passes CR, then the house also needs to pass the same document? or are we just open now?
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Need someone to explain to me the basics of whats happening here.
Like we are in shutdown, senate passes CR, then the house also needs to pass the same document? or are we just open now?
Like we are in shutdown, senate passes CR, then the house also needs to pass the same document? or are we just open now?
Love the idea that this is Trump's true goal but hes just so bad at it, hes pushed his closest neighbours and the EU to reevaluate their hard stances on china
Behind the bailouts, the sanctions, and the flattery of right-wing strongmen sits a single project: a U.S.-led Western Hemisphere united against China’s rise, writes Tyler Cowen for The Free Press.
Trump’s Bid to Rule the Americas
Behind the bailouts, the sanctions, and the flattery of right-wing strongmen sits a single project: a U.S.-led Western Hemisphere united against China’s rise, writes Tyler Cowen for The Free Press.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Love the idea that this is Trump's true goal but hes just so bad at it, hes pushed his closest neighbours and the EU to reevaluate their hard stances on china
Feels like the world series in here but for healthcare
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Feels like the world series in here but for healthcare
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GOP really stress-testing the hyperplane separation theorem.
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
GOP really stress-testing the hyperplane separation theorem.
CPC going full UK on this one
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
CPC going full UK on this one
Max Verstappen once again out to destroy Mercedes
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Max Verstappen once again out to destroy Mercedes
The woman on instagram who felt the need to dig a massive concrete reinforced room beneath her house and is now using grout expansion to break rocks is kind of my hero
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The woman on instagram who felt the need to dig a massive concrete reinforced room beneath her house and is now using grout expansion to break rocks is kind of my hero