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The Beginning of Infinity
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By 1910, the network of interurbans in the US was so dense that a determined commuter could hop interlinked streetcars from Elkhart, Wisconsin, to Oneonta, NY—a journey of 1,100 miles—exclusively by electric trolley. 🚋🧵 https://t.co/V8qK07lkpn
Intercity transit used to be electric
Refusing to choose is a choice.
Excerpt: “The upsetting implication, and why I sometimes avoid recognizing my own agency, is that if I have a choice, then what I’m doing is actually what I chose to be doing. This can be kind of upsetting for one’s self-image.”
By default, anthropic hides these "inner thought" aka text chunks. This is the reason why sometimes you see the anthropic flower loading in the middle of a response. Claude is basically deliberating at arbitrary points of a response for a better output - imo one of the most underrated unhobblings.
junex.comLLMs are better with an internal monologue
this is the bortle scale. it's used to measure how dark the night sky is in a given place. until relatively recently in human history i imagine every human being who ever lived could see a bortle 1 sky every night of their lives, weather permitting. i personally have never seen darker than bortle 4 in my entire life, and that only happened once.... See more
The lack of density in most of the Western United States is made up for by the vibrance of the night sky. It's hard to appreciate the beauty hiding in the darkness until you're truly away from the lights.
Excel may be the most influential software ever built. It is a canonical example of Steve Job’s bicycle of the mind, endowing its users with computational superpowers normally reserved for professional software engineers. Armed with those superpowers, users can create fully functional software programs in the form of a humble spreadsheet to solve... See more
Packy McCormick • Excel Never Dies
The Autistic Half-Century
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There are a bunch of really basic and easy ways to improve your social media experience that I see smart people not doing.
1. Turn off auto-playing wherever possible
2. When you see something that you would prefer not to have seen, consider why it's on your feed, and use the tools to remove it. You can unfollow people,... See more
Rob Milesx.comI built and sold a business that allowed me to retire at age 44. It was called Data Storage, Inc., information, knowledge, and records management is my jam.
10 Years ago I gave a speech about the half life of knowledge to a bunch of MBA aspirants at a university business school. This is the Twitter synopsis.... See more
Scott Hambrickx.comTechnology changed how we think and what we think about. But also what we remember and for how long. And perhaps, in the future, if we remember…