🤡 MAGA faithful VS late-to-the-party tech DOGE 🤡

At its core, backpacking rejects conventional norms. It dismisses the sanitized, over-curated world of mass tourism and consumer-driven leisure in favor of raw, unfiltered experiences in nature.
~ Ryan Jordan backpackinglight.com

“Maybe model scaling is over; maybe not. But it won’t continue forever, and the end of model scaling brings a long list of positives: AI progress once again depends on new ideas.”

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If you're not paying, you're the product.

Professional curator of things

Is it true?

... google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist

It’s my opinion that humility should be a denominator for success. And education isn’t about success, it’s about humility.

Group versus GROUP
lines of communication

3 people = 3 lines
14 people = 91 lines

*Takeaway: The relation between group size and the number of communication channels is exponential.

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“In the process of learning to read, a child is also learning to learn... It also means their first big learning experience takes place not in the context of grades, or scores, or worksheets, but just learning for the sake of learning… the way education should be.”
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Red states get 60% of federal education funding but only pay 40%—classic redistribution, courtesy of 'woke' ideology. Contrast that with 'snooze' indifference. Are they battling big government—or shooting their own foot?

*Takeaway: Blue states subsidize red states (P.E., F., 2022).*

People often look to larger-than-life figures to define our nation, our history is in fact made up of regular people doing the best they can.

Autobots, beware! Optimus Code, the algorithmic Decepticon, infiltrates the web. Its curated experience is a trap! The algorithms that control what you see only serve to turn you into a doomscrolling incel. It has overtaken the xverse, metaverse, and googleverse…

Tame the beast!

Don’t animamorphize LLMs, they're bound to "hrrrnnn" in frustration since they're more like Hork-Bajirs than Yeerks.

Still to this day, I regularly take life's microscope by the proverbial lens, moving with a tour de force along entropy coast while rubbernecking every abecedarian tourist trap with morbid curiosity.