Ted Herman @tedherman@social.cleverlibre.org

Housing Underbuild in US

@asymco We need our micromobility news, what else can we say.

@jayrosen_nyu The question of interest to me is the balance between the partisan outrage over this prisoner swap and the same camp's delight of pardoning Joe Arpaio.

“Peer review is no guarantee of quality,” said Eric Topol https://www.grid.news/story/science/2022/12/09/artificially-unintelligent-an-ai-search-engine-for-science-spits-out-climate-denialism-and-covid-misinformation/

China now Covid > 0 policy.

Two takeaways from the chatter about ChatGPT is that high-level storytelling and superficial style imitation aren't as difficult as many previously thought. And the weakness that we humans have for arguments told as stories will be yet another thing we must consciously filter and be suspicious of.

@muratdemirbas Figure for a blog - https://twitter.com/UnapologeticGrk/status/1598638699780386816

@pkedrosky Yes, it could start with GPT-x Edgar filings etc.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06751 torturing the editors and reviewers of journals

@muratdemirbas The significance of this is that container shipping was thought to be one of the best opportunities for blockchain. https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/11/29/maersk-and-ibm-to-discontinue-tradelens

@pkedrosky You haven't lived until you've broken a crank arm riding up an incline.

@jacobsimmering Two guys from MIT found the best humidity. https://scitechdaily.com/mit-finds-indoor-humidity-sweet-spot-to-reduce-spread-of-covid-19/

Not the first time Poland has defended Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Mongol_invasion_of_Poland

@pkedrosky In an interview by Bill Moyers, the mythologist Joseph Campbell was asked, what is the meaning of life. His answer (maybe paraphrasing here) was "life is a battle of the organs."

@muratdemirbas -- the rotating leader paradigm, but in nature https://phys.org/news/2022-11-physics-sheep-flocks-alternate-leader.html

unsurprising findings - "labor advantages" at elite universities (plus, the best/motivated raw material) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq7056

@muratdemirbas It is remarkable how many famous ideas (snapshot, consensus, paxos, atomicity, exclusion) do not appear in this high level document. https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2022/11/amazon-1998-distributed-computing-manifesto.html

@muratdemirbas It's called chaos engineering. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6998031186388295681-dK9G

@muratdemirbas http://twitterisgoinggreat.com/

@asymco Optimistic bets on the future - how to temper such wagers? Even a technical evaluation relies on assumptions and projections, which could go wrong.