Brian Gawalt
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Zohran Mamdani and the Other “Boy Mayor”
What today’s mayor-elect can learn from the ghosts of New York City government
medium.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Buds: for the bud god
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Buds: for the bud god
connecting this to one of my bigtime "boy, i dunnos": endogamy doubles this cost across many areas. "blind trust/passive index investing only" is the famous one.
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
connecting this to one of my bigtime "boy, i dunnos": endogamy doubles this cost across many areas. "blind trust/passive index investing only" is the famous one.
Yeah that's fine, it's more about "are you making an effort"
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Yeah that's fine, it's more about "are you making an effort"
Also,
now that people are anti-fetterman let me say that i think it is disrespectful that he walks around the senate chamber in a hoodie and shorts
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Also,
sorry, i left an important part implicit: once you've split `w` into two new vectors, you then continue your stochastic gradient descent. as long as you trust that initial `w`, it's a good way to initialize a now-larger network.
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
sorry, i left an important part implicit: once you've split `w` into two new vectors, you then continue your stochastic gradient descent. as long as you trust that initial `w`, it's a good way to initialize a now-larger network.
i have never tried to build it, because google had a push-button autosearcher that would spend a day finding a good feed-forward architecture for your particular dataset. but if i *did* need to grow a deep net, this would be how i did.
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
i have never tried to build it, because google had a push-button autosearcher that would spend a day finding a good feed-forward architecture for your particular dataset. but if i *did* need to grow a deep net, this would be how i did.
9000 (or 90000, or _____) minisats a year, i mean
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
9000 (or 90000, or _____) minisats a year, i mean
WGBH was maybe setting up their own Mastodon server a few years ago? And so was Medium? But no such self hosting of bsky content. Without that this is just like, a seventh, equally-precarious iteration on Post Dot News or Hive or Spoutable or ....
November 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
WGBH was maybe setting up their own Mastodon server a few years ago? And so was Medium? But no such self hosting of bsky content. Without that this is just like, a seventh, equally-precarious iteration on Post Dot News or Hive or Spoutable or ....