Matt LaPalm
mlapalm.bsky.social
Matt LaPalm
@mlapalm.bsky.social
Reformed optimist
“Mu mu mu myyyyy Sub Poe Na” to the tune of My Sharona….
January 13, 2026 at 8:54 PM
This is a weird take of a story. Women outperform men for decades. Not recent. Previous policies advantaging men seems like a misread of policies or a misread of data. Like all equity work, the interaction between race, gender, and income is probably clouding this attempt at a simplistic story.
December 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If a domino falls in the forest, and no one hears it…
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
It seems like small language models might actually be the future for people who want to solve an actual problem, rather than… I don’t know… take over the world Pinky and The Brain style.
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Higher margins for high margin industries. The MBA’s have a plan for everything…
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I have Sonics nostalgia too, but we should be trying to put the NBA out of business, not groveling for it.
July 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Jony
June 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
LLM’s kick ass! Training, data privacy and other concerns are real, but as a tool they are so cool. They communicate by guessing what next word will be the most useful in forming an idea… and like… so do I? I do, in fact, want a little buddy who tries to help and does help most of the time.
April 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Got no national paid family leave. I’m not saying this is a good idea, but it isn’t a bad idea…
April 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Isn’t it the best when you have a vague sense of something and it turns out there is a whole body of knowledge about it?
April 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Speaking for myself, I learn quicker this way. I can mimic behavior really well, it’s harder to work backwards from a negative example. I don’t think I’m the only one.
April 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM