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+1 Deciding what to write is the critical step. You can get it with careful typing, but it's harder because you can type fast enough to skip that step.

A systemic risk to the financial sector due to their overexposure to CDOs? Yes, I know that's the same plot as 2008. The writers have gotten lazy.

Replace financial sector with big tech and overexposure to CDOs to overexposure to large promised data centers build outs and you have the right answer.

100%

It's wrong to encourage and profit from fraud or magical thinking.


Bluesky doesn't push an algorithmic feed, so it looks empty if you aren't following people who are posting.

FWIW starter kits and topical feeds are a great way to jumpstart your algorithm.


Inspired by, not taken. It's a clever solution to a hard problem!

Do you remember Ask Jeeves? Dogpile? Google was an incredible improvement!



Professor Cottom's a certified (McArthur) Genius, and she clocked this "scam culture" back in 2021:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/opinion/scams-trust-insti...

Things have gotten dramatically worse since then.


I knew a couple of McArthur Genius grant recipients (they were students like me) when I was in college. I wouldn't put any of them among the top most intelligent students I went to school with. The way they are chosen isn't exactly bad but it doesn't end up with giving the grants to "geniuses". If you aren't in one of the top most competitive fields, its more about applying and getting the right recommendations. If you get one in math or CS, then yes...that's very impressive. Professor Cotton (sp?) isn't in one of those fields.

Bro. You don't apply for the McArthur.

And why would you go out of your way to misspell her name? What do you gain by that aside from just looking petulant?


Fun fact: "open divisions" only last as long as men are winning them. Women often outshoot men, and after Shan Zhang's win they were siloed into their own division.

> Fun fact: "open divisions" only last as long as men are winning them. Women often outshoot men, and after Shan Zhang's win they were siloed into their own division.

That decision was made before her win.

> the International Shooting Union, at a meeting in April of 1992, and therefore ahead of the Games, elected to bar women from shooting against men in future events.

<https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2753773/2021/08/05/in-tokyo...>


In the same way, LeBron James has earned more money from selling shoes than playing basketball.

It's Gell-Mann amnesia: you notice the errors in fields where you're an expert.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect


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