Neal McBurnett
nealmcb.bsky.social
Neal McBurnett
@nealmcb.bsky.social
Election integrity, security, AI consultant. #RiskLimitingAudit pioneer. Verified Voting board member, LWV advocate. Free software dev. @nealmcb on github, bsky, twitter etc. And I love to dance!
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Matt Parker points out that the tariff equation is so bad, it includes unnecessary asterisks for multiplication (when multiplied terms are usually just smooshed together)
youtu.be/j04IAbWCszg
Explaining the Trump Tariff Equation
YouTube video by Stand-up Maths
youtu.be
April 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A cogent overview of the DeepSeek Surprise, by Daniel Ritchie of the Brainwave Collective: www.coloradoai.news/the-deepseek...
The DeepSeek Surprise: Why China's latest AI move matters - and why it may not
Think of DeepSeek as a catalyst for expansion rather than a threat to existing players, which is why such a massive hit to NVIDIA's stock may not have been justified.
www.coloradoai.news
February 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Thank you @crookedfootball.bsky.social. Your précis of the new piece lists all my passions!

"draws on the work of James C. Scott, Elinor Ostrom and ecologists to think about how we might reclaim the internet from the tech oligopoly that has turned it into a small number of gated ad-mills"
We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
www.noemamag.com
April 17, 2024 at 9:45 AM
@axz.bsky.social Great talk today on tools and workflows for policy governance in online communities! www.youtube.com/live/Q1xYwRw...
I've been listening to the Another Way podcast by twitter.com/lessig recently - so much in common! podcastaddict.com/another-way-...
February 21, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Everynoise is a blast to wander around, even though it isn't being updated anymore. You can even do a text search for genre names.

techcrunch.com/2024/02/12/e...

everynoise.com
February 14, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Enjoying seeing external Bennu material at Osiris-Rex (science.nasa.gov/mission/osir...) sample-return "reveal" press conference (www.youtube.com/live/21X5lGl...) but surprised that they haven't actually opened up the TAGSAM container to reveal what is inside. Intense anticipation for coming days?
October 11, 2023 at 4:10 PM