I find it especially rich that Stephen Miller would call a scandal-ridden home-wrecker like Paxton as "God-fearing" when Talarico is a Presbyterian seminarian.

Christian Nationalists aren't Christians. They worship a twisted and selfish god unable to sacrifice anything to save anyone from anything.

LLMs are fundamentally limited, because 'what's the next word' shouldn't work.

Yes, you're right. However, for fear of coming off as an AI sycophant (I've yet to sacrifice my brain at the altar of our future AI overlords), LLMs aren't the whole picture. Plenty of research is dedicated to essentially combining the best of each class of AI algorithms into a composite model of intelligence. For instance, "Neuro-Symbolic AI" is really just the result of giving an LLM (good at translation, search, synthesis, bad at symbolic reasoning) a symbolic inference engine like Prolog (good at symbolic reasoning, no native ability for translation/search/synthesis). I've been coding for over 20 years, and I'm impressed at its results for software development.

This all is reminiscent of Moore's Law; even though we keep running into the physical limits of CPU clock speeds, transistor size, etc. we keep finding clever ways to work around those limits.

Of course I'm not saying we should; these models are, after all, models of intelligence, not wisdom.

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They built it. They're making money on it. Is that still satire?

I strongly believe that Fetterman is a plant.

He's a human with brain damage who pulled a bait-and-switch on Pennsylvanians (although the alternative wasn't much better...), not a green, sun-loving plant! Leave the poor plants out of this!

Unfortunately a lot of people haven't been paying attention.

As others have already said: take breaks. It's really easy (speaking from experience) to "get used" to a volume level that's way too loud, ESPECIALLY if using isolating or noise-cancelling headphones.

Part of how your brain determines if something is too loud is its contrast with the environment. Yelling at the top of your lungs sounds a lot louder in a quiet library than it does in the middle of a live concert. Taking a break both recalibrates your sense of loudness and gives your ears a rest.

If you can afford decent "reference" or "studio" headphones, you'll enjoy the same music at MUCH quieter levels than cheaper or lower-quality headphones. They are designed to be used for long periods of time by professional audio engineers and musicians, who are notoriously protective of their hearing and perfectionistic about even the most subtle of sounds.

Although I was a broke college student and couldn't afford hardly anything they talked about, I learned a ton scrolling through audiophile forums like Head-Fi ( https://www.head-fi.org/forums/ ). Now I'm less broke, but somehow equipment envy and window-shopping just feels more right than spending way too much money on something I probably don't have the time to enjoy anymore... Such is life.

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Boosting morale and rallying people around common values is absolutely capital-L leadership. A good leader strives towards greatness. A poor leader merely avoids ruin (only to run into it anyways).

The Rs are using every resource they have right now to make the public think this shutdown is the Dems fault

illegally, to boot. MAGA and the GOP are massively overplaying their hand. The only way we get out of this ahead is by forcing them to apply all that pain they promised the American people.

Your ability to violently catapult literal tons of metal and plastic has no weight on their right to use the road. Keep your angry toys out of cyclists way.

I agree, but also somewhat disagree: people are voting with their dollars, and (in this one case) they seem to value the Constitution.

Not when the entirety of your conversations are jargon and in-jokes!

/s

It's hard to say whether it was the stroke, the exposure to DC, or a combination of both... But considering other progressive senators seem capable of (mostly) holding true to their campaign promises/personality, it's more likely due to the stroke.

Edit: missing "progressive" modifier