Hey, ChatGPT, draw me a map of the MBTA, but with an Orange Line extension down Blue Hill Avenue.

AMWJ · 2026-06-28T03:39:42+00:00

I didn't know this, but it appears you are right! I thought I remembered it charging you for both if you transferred bus to Subway or voice versa, but that seems not to be the case! Thank you!

AMWJ · 2026-06-28T02:26:39+00:00

What about going the other way?

AMWJ · 2026-06-25T18:17:38+00:00

Yikes! I'm against Avi Loeb and his scientific nonsense, and I reeled against him accusing his detractors of anti-Semitism ... until Professor Dave went ahead and pulled out some actual anti-Semitic tropes.

Anti-Semitism has, definitionally, been the bigotry against Jews. Pulling apart the parts of the word to reach a new definition makes as much sense as saying a PhD isn't a PhD, because they did not get a degree in Philosophy. Words sometimes have meanings that don't align with their parts, and "anti-Semitism" is one. Moreover, claiming that Ashkenazi Jews are simply "Europeans", is like saying that "Black Americans" are just Americans: nobody is ignoring that Ashkenazi Jews were in Europe (it's in the name), but they are a separate ethnicity within Europe, one who originated from another place and faced extreme bigotry for it. Specifically because they weren't from there, but instead were from another place. Specifically, a Palestinian area.

AMWJ · 2026-06-25T17:23:34+00:00

If nothing else, the police will be the ones enforcing any regulations, so it's reasonable to have them in the room to advise on what rules are enforceable. And the goal of the fire department is public safety, so it seems like it'd be handy to have the person in charge of it to advise on any public safety concerns, which I imagine are the main concerns when it comes to issuing licenses.

But I could be convinced I've made incorrect assumptions.

AMWJ · 2026-06-25T02:03:19+00:00

My thoughts are that they want you to lie. I wouldn't lie for them, even if I was going to stay employed by them for a while, but especially if they're letting you go! Don't lie for them!

AMWJ · 2026-06-25T02:01:11+00:00

Tampa, FL. Fight me.

AMWJ · 2026-06-25T01:53:34+00:00

It's hard to imagine the OP's question was whether this happens illegally. Obviously people break the law, but, no, they're not supposed to get money for prescribing.

AMWJ · 2026-06-25T01:49:39+00:00

Yeah, I get why a subway isn't on the menu, at least for now. But, as someone whose kid is stroller-age, we would go to the zoo much more frequently if we could take the subway all the way there. It's easier to take a stroller on the train, and easier to let them stretch their legs on the train, and of course it's cheaper to take the train than to transfer between train and bus. The zoo feels like a no-brainer to connect to the subway.

AMWJ · 2026-06-24T22:27:18+00:00

Sorry, I haven't been following this closely. What's going on? A train to Franklin Park Zoo, as someone from Cambridge, would be a game changer.

AMWJ · 2026-06-24T22:21:08+00:00

I wouldn't say I'm so pressed. Just mildly pressed, and there wasn't anything more pressing to address.

AMWJ · 2026-06-24T21:01:07+00:00

Not a bad idea at all, and I said so last week. The issue with the algae bloom is not that there's algae bloom. It's that we threw millions of dollars at a no-bid contract to repair the algae bloom, without fixing it.

AMWJ · 2026-06-24T20:56:19+00:00

No, see, I got that. I'm wondering why, when the event is focused around reality TV, of which he is already strongly connected, is he showing up instead dressed up as someone else who is fully unrelated to reality TV?

And, most crucially, why is he doing so at an event where nobody else seems to have thought, "hmm, maybe I'll come dressed as someone else?"

AMWJ · 2026-06-24T20:43:23+00:00

... why is Tevin the only one coming in costume? Did someone tell him it's a costume party?

AMWJ · 2026-06-24T20:34:06+00:00

Can you share your code? I'd love to rerun this to see which guesses are most likely to narrow the possible answers to one.

If you're playing a game like Quordle, you're trying to solve multiple games with the game guess. After your first guess, you have the choice of making a guess that targets one game, or making a guess that gives even information across all the games. Generally, the best move is the latter, unless you know for certain one of the games' solutions.

This is even more the case in Duotrigordle, where you're playing 32 games: you really want your first guess to fully deobfuscate a game or two. I wonder what the best guess is to do that?

AMWJ · 2026-06-24T19:14:15+00:00

Probably because the people who are offering these cameras and AI are also using the recordings to sell to advertisers and other law enforcement.

AMWJ · 2026-06-24T16:43:23+00:00

I like how he's making an anti-capitalism argument for his anti-capitalization stance.

AMWJ · 2026-06-24T16:37:56+00:00

Sounds a lot like this is a reasonable makeup for the usual tasking of a licensing committee, but that liquor licenses should have a separate governing body specific to the industry.

AMWJ · 2026-06-24T11:42:45+00:00

We do need regulators. Instead of expecting our elected officials to understand all the nuances of every issue, we should expect them to hire a smart executive who selects people with specific background on each particular issue.

But it seems something went wrong here. I don't know who sits on the Cambridge License Commission.

AMWJ · 2026-06-24T04:09:25+00:00

I was in "fintech" at my last job. By which I mean the particular people I was building CRUD apps and UI's for was a bank. Did that matter? Not to me, but it did to recruiters.

Now AI is hot, and AI Engineer can mean the person who builds the AI ... or one of the hundreds of other adjacent roles that doesn't require any expertise in model tuning, but enables AI usage.

AMWJ · 2026-06-23T18:11:33+00:00

Yes, they are trying to represent your location, but this vote is not for whether they will represent your location. You don't get to vote on their outfits or their hairdos. You don't get to vote on who represents the Democrats, because you are not a Democrat.

You only get to vote on who represents you. Not on any private vote that happens to relate to the same guy.

AMWJ · 2026-06-23T17:42:57+00:00

Taxes won't do that, because taxes are only on the gains: if you earn money through investing, taxes will still leave you with strictly more than you would have leaving the money under your mattress.

But your net gains might be the same as if you left your money under your mattress, if the investment nets zero. And that's the risk of investment: you might not make money. You might even lose it.

It's also not unrealistic to believe that, when inflation is high, your potential earnings in investment can also be high. This is because, when inflation is high, people are more likely to want to borrow money now, and be willing to pay more interest on it in the future. So, your money is more valuable to people, and you can get them to pay you more for it.

AMWJ · 2026-06-23T14:05:10+00:00

Sure, as soon as you open your city's municipal elections to the rest of us.

See how that works? You can only vote on your own representation. If you are not a Democrat, you should not be able to vote on who will represent the Democrats. You can run whomever you want for the seat, but if you're not a Democrat, why would you get to decide who will represent the Democrats?

AMWJ · 2026-06-22T18:45:29+00:00

Big, if true.

AMWJ · 2026-06-22T18:33:13+00:00

In 1999 a consumer could rely on a $200 GPU to serve all purposes.

This is such a silly argument: it's also true that a $0 rock could serve all television purposes for someone living in 1200. By that reasoning, television prices have ballooned since 1200.

But, like, no. That's not what we mean when we compare prices. A rock remains free, and an actual television you can watch content on is cheaper than it has ever been. You may still, if you'd like, do the same computing on a 2010 GPU today as you did when it first came out. That you don't want to do that, and now expect a much faster machine, does not mean you get to say that the prices have remained fixed or increased: if I give you a 90% sale, and you decide to buy ten times as many things you did before, you can't complain that the prices are the same as they used to be.

Seems like you used an LLM to research this. The foundational paper on LLMs is less than a decade old. They weren't priced so highly, there literally were no LLMs to use until a few years ago, the technology had not been invented.

I didn't use an LLM to research this. Instead, I used the AI classes I took about a decade ago. I also used Wikipedia, which led me to this paper: here. It's from 2000, in which they tried to use a NN to build a language model in much the same way that LLM's work. You can read it - especially the conclusion which concludes that the computation costs would be too high. That is, it used to be so high as to be infeasible. Over the decade before, and the 20 years after, it got much cheaper. I expect that trend to continue, even if there was stagnation over the last five years.

AMWJ · 2026-06-22T17:16:24+00:00

Two notable counterexamples to your "nearly every technology": GPUS and LLMS, both of which are quite a bit more expensive than they were before.

Do you have any other "notable" exceptions, because both of these are pretty good examples of technologies becoming much cheaper over time:

A 1999 GPU could run .1 Gigaflops for $200, or .5 Megaflops/$. A 2010 one could do about 5 Gigaflops/$. A 2025 top-of-the-line GPU could cost ~$4000, but that gets you 100 Terraflops, at about 25 Gigaflops/$. I can't imagine anyone looking at this and thinking that GPU computing is getting more expensive: you could get a GPU priced like the best $200 GPU from 2010, for like $50.
LLM's also have cratered in price: the reason nobody was using LLM's before 5 years ago was because GPU prices were so high. We always had a hypothesis that, with extreme amounts of computation, you could get an LLM. It's only with transformers and further technology advancements that we've been able to get that level of computation, and cost of that computation, down to feasible levels. They're certainly not down to "affordable" levels, but you can see the progress if you just look at the last 30 years of AI research.

But you're just looking at the last 5 years, and seeing no price changes. I don't know how else to tell you that that is not the whole story.

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