Ted Herman @tedherman@social.cleverlibre.org

It's my fake Google birthday today!

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Favorite new clickbait enticer: "and Tiktokers are freaking out" added to the end of the headline.

How to understand farming in Iowa. https://www.nber.org/papers/w31101

“If there’s one thing the blockchain does really well, it preserves evidence perfectly,” said Jonathan Levin, a pioneer cryptocurrency sleuth and one of the founders of Chainalysis.

https://text.npr.org/1169269161 👍

@jacobsimmering Here's a result from economics that I did not know about - yet well known and possibly you studied it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Francis_Roy#:~:text=Roy%20describes%20a%20series%20of,but%20entertaining%2C%20interplay%20would%20ensue. (I don't know much of Marxist literature.)

@arnicas Encourage such people to rediscover the theory of social circles.

What do you call a prompt engineer who is perpetually late to meetings, dinners, and appointments?

@buitengebieden mooi molen - typische achtergrond?

@mimsical I feel your story reporting about large firms hiring inventors connects, somehow, to a history of conglomeration, increasing financialization, and other themes. Well done! (otoh there is that editorial, but of course you have nothing to do with that). I wonder if an inventor getting hired by big corp is the equivalent of a founder completing an exit - realization of a limited dream.

@jacobtlevy To fully appreciate this you have to read the comments below the article in the WSJ (approaching 5k now).

dinner tomorrow. those are eggs, chicks, bunnies, and bells.

"The news is often like a meringue. It needs to be whipped into something worth consuming." -- Jack Shafer, Politico.

me: can I tell you a secret and will you keep it secret?

Bard: [condensed for brevity] Maybe.

@pwinn https://qoto.org/@tedherman/110148194459100867

me: In which programming languages does 1 == "1"?

Bard: In no programming language does 1 == "1".

me: what about javascript?

Bard: In JavaScript, the comparison 1 == "1" will evaluate to true.

"China was able to control the balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites (at times flying figure-eight formations) and transmit the information it collected back to Beijing in real time" [https://news.yahoo.com/chinese-balloon-got-intel-u-123041044.html].

I'm curious as to how this was technically done, what kind of navigation/propulsion was used and could it be useful more generally.

@carnage4life Just ask ChatGPT like everyone else?