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Ha ha, I am sure this will all work. There’s never been problems with large and sketchy money market instruments in the past.
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Ha ha, I am sure this will all work. There’s never been problems with large and sketchy money market instruments in the past.
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In system dynamics, stocks and flows create a system's behaviour, but they don’t operate in isolation.
They sit inside webs of interacting feedback loops.
Feedback is simply information about what’s happening in the system’s stocks, fed back to influence its flows.
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They sit inside webs of interacting feedback loops.
Feedback is simply information about what’s happening in the system’s stocks, fed back to influence its flows.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
In system dynamics, stocks and flows create a system's behaviour, but they don’t operate in isolation.
They sit inside webs of interacting feedback loops.
Feedback is simply information about what’s happening in the system’s stocks, fed back to influence its flows.
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They sit inside webs of interacting feedback loops.
Feedback is simply information about what’s happening in the system’s stocks, fed back to influence its flows.
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Here is the very simple explanation to this entirely unsurprising finding. ‘Poetry’ is just another way of saying ‘language’ but in a highly stressed format. LLMs are definitionally incapable of language (ironically).
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Here is the very simple explanation to this entirely unsurprising finding. ‘Poetry’ is just another way of saying ‘language’ but in a highly stressed format. LLMs are definitionally incapable of language (ironically).
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"there was a young man with a dream
of making methamphetamine
...
of making methamphetamine
...
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"there was a young man with a dream
of making methamphetamine
...
of making methamphetamine
...
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You'd think the field that studies money would have a solid grasp of how it works.
But mainstream economics still teaches that banks are intermediaries, loans come from savings, and governments can run out of money.
None of that sh#t holds up.
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But mainstream economics still teaches that banks are intermediaries, loans come from savings, and governments can run out of money.
None of that sh#t holds up.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
You'd think the field that studies money would have a solid grasp of how it works.
But mainstream economics still teaches that banks are intermediaries, loans come from savings, and governments can run out of money.
None of that sh#t holds up.
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But mainstream economics still teaches that banks are intermediaries, loans come from savings, and governments can run out of money.
None of that sh#t holds up.
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I am increasingly of the opinion that advancing computing technology beyond the 80386 was a mistake that society has paid dearly for.
lol honey bad news the website's down so the bed cooked the children
"AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat" is something from a Final Destination pre-production brainstorming session www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
October 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I am increasingly of the opinion that advancing computing technology beyond the 80386 was a mistake that society has paid dearly for.
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from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"
October 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"
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Republican free marketeers strike again.
Trump administration will set price floors across range of industries to combat China, Bessent says
Trump administration will set price floors across range of industries to combat China, Bessent says
China has driven foreign competitors out of business over the past two decades by using its market dominance to slash prices, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
cnb.cx
October 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Republican free marketeers strike again.
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That the education sector is being treated as a market for genAI and not as the very thing that makes it work tells you everything you need to know about what’s driving this particular economic bubble.
Anyway, we’ll see if Evan Solomon’s AI task force addresses these issues. I’m not hopeful.
Anyway, we’ll see if Evan Solomon’s AI task force addresses these issues. I’m not hopeful.
September 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
That the education sector is being treated as a market for genAI and not as the very thing that makes it work tells you everything you need to know about what’s driving this particular economic bubble.
Anyway, we’ll see if Evan Solomon’s AI task force addresses these issues. I’m not hopeful.
Anyway, we’ll see if Evan Solomon’s AI task force addresses these issues. I’m not hopeful.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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was out for beers the other day and was trying to describe doing a vendor inventory and interlocutor said "oh if i wanted to do that i'd just point chatgpt at my work email and tell it to pull all the invoices"
ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.
also, so many of these people are just taking company confidential, proprietary data and dumping it into public iterations of ChatGPT, which is so incredibly problematic on so many levels. Even on our internal approved tools I have to tell people to turn them off when discussing certain legal stuff!
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
was out for beers the other day and was trying to describe doing a vendor inventory and interlocutor said "oh if i wanted to do that i'd just point chatgpt at my work email and tell it to pull all the invoices"
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Free-market reformer needs a bailout.
Breaking news: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said 'all options' are on the table for the Trump administration to support Argentina through a bout of severe market volatility on.ft.com/3W5D9W4
September 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Free-market reformer needs a bailout.
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Argentina: the country where every economic theory goes to die.
The problem with libertarianism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money
September 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Argentina: the country where every economic theory goes to die.
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stafford beer warned us monoskop.org/images/e/e3/...
September 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
stafford beer warned us monoskop.org/images/e/e3/...
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Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
September 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
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Why yes, the answer is co-ops! They’re not just for hippies selling muesli anymore…
September 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Why yes, the answer is co-ops! They’re not just for hippies selling muesli anymore…
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This article, by Carleton PhD student Alexander Rudolph, should be on the front page of every Canadian newspaper. It highlights how the US can access all data on the government and military’s Microsoft servers, Canadian laws be damned.
www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...
www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...
Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty
Microsoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country's sovereignty.
www.digitaljournal.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This article, by Carleton PhD student Alexander Rudolph, should be on the front page of every Canadian newspaper. It highlights how the US can access all data on the government and military’s Microsoft servers, Canadian laws be damned.
www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...
www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...
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The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
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Holy moly. This is right. I got a response with 21 states including Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Minnesota from ChatGPT
My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
August 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Holy moly. This is right. I got a response with 21 states including Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Minnesota from ChatGPT
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“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.
August 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.
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There's no such thing as AGI. Human brains just use pattern recognition. Knowledge is advanced when one of those brains is broken in a very specific way. How can you create a broken outlier from an averaging algorithm?
August 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
There's no such thing as AGI. Human brains just use pattern recognition. Knowledge is advanced when one of those brains is broken in a very specific way. How can you create a broken outlier from an averaging algorithm?
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Perhaps AI will bring about a renaissance in customer service. But that will only happen if AI is allowed to tell the management what it's hearing. And management has been protected from customer feedback for so long that I wonder if they want to know. 11/
July 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Perhaps AI will bring about a renaissance in customer service. But that will only happen if AI is allowed to tell the management what it's hearing. And management has been protected from customer feedback for so long that I wonder if they want to know. 11/
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New from me: A Grand Bargain between Canada and the United States was a bad idea in 2002. It's an even worse one today.
A proposal for a “grand bargain” with the United States? It’s 2002 all over again
I had to laugh when I heard yesterday that the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the Center for North American Prosperity and Security is pitching a “Grand Bargain” between Canada and the United States. Apparently, according to the report’s emailed release, “the crisis in US-Canada relations presents an unprecedented opportunity to forge a transformative agreement that goes far beyond traditional trade deals.”
blaynehaggart.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
New from me: A Grand Bargain between Canada and the United States was a bad idea in 2002. It's an even worse one today.
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jesus the latest ECB scenarios from the Network for Greening the Financial System go hard. (they are considering a disaster scenario with more GDP impact than the peak-to-trough in 2008-9, and a "diverging realities" scenario with climate risk twice the Eurocrisis)
www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...
www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...
Climate risks: no longer the tragedy of the horizon
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...
www.ecb.europa.eu
July 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
jesus the latest ECB scenarios from the Network for Greening the Financial System go hard. (they are considering a disaster scenario with more GDP impact than the peak-to-trough in 2008-9, and a "diverging realities" scenario with climate risk twice the Eurocrisis)
www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...
www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...
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He’s automating the long-existing process, then
July 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
He’s automating the long-existing process, then