The Supreme Court does not have to bend the knee to Congress. They just have to hold their own to some standards.

I was messing around with this a few months ago. Glad to see this much more thorough paper. Unfortunately I think the biggest problem for automated causal inference is still finding compelling applications.

I do not think it means what you think it means.

PAYING THE WRITER Well, we’ve got another strike going, because while story distributors really like making all the money that comes with distributing stories, which they do not create, they’d rather not pay even a bit of that money to the people who actually create the stories.

DOJ just released the report from its two-year investigation of the Minneapolis police department. Here's a thread of notable excerpts. This first one happened *while a DOJ investigator was on a ride-along.*

A recent work from Iddo Drori claimed GPT4 can score 100% on MIT's EECS curriculum with the right prompting. My friends and I were excited to read the analysis behind such a feat, but after digging deeper, what we found left us surprised and disappointed. dub.sh/gptsucksatmit 🧵

Update: we've started replicating their experiments directly with GPT4 calls, and somehow it only gets worse. We've finished running zero-shot GPT 4 on the dataset, and after hand grading the first 30% of the dataset, the results don't seem to match the paper. 🧵

What the Explorers' Club is calling "red tape" is in fact just the very reasonable rule from the Coast Guard that the submersible has to be located *before* they send any people or vehicles to a notably dangerous part of the ocean. nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…

TW: death , trauma , drowning If you have been reading compulsively about the Oceangate, as most of us have been, make sure you read about the conditions on the Messenia migrant boat. It was preventable. Laws need to change. greekreporter.com/2023/06/20/sur… nytimes.com/2023/06/16/wor…

It's remarkable that, for all of the articles written and words spilled in the NYT about defunding the police, the paper has not done a single, serious, comprehensive dive into the actual NYPD or Rikers budgets.

Bigger businesses are often less competent, since they get to relax into monopolistic practices and economies of scale. Yet somehow neoliberals given them more respect.

NEW: America is a rich country. Britain is a poor country with one wealthy region. People love to compare the UK to Mississippi, but it’s far more informative to look at UK subnationally, too. London ranks fairly well, the rest of the country does not 👉 ft.com/content/e5c741…

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Jasmin Paris Jasmin Paris finished loop five of the #BM100 in 59:58:21.

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I made the mistake of doing business with Adobe and now they are expecting me to pay $250 to cancel my stock photo account. I mistakenly thought this had gotten better.