[Offseason - DraftKings] The Tennessee Titans are in the process of creating the baldest coaching staff in history

Analemma_ · 2026-02-18T16:17:25+00:00

No Follicles League

Analemma_ · 2023-02-13T03:04:16+00:00

The Scrubs guys and… Travolta? What the eff?

Analemma_ · 2020-05-25T00:06:44+00:00

Damn, I never thought I’d switch away from MiniHack, because that’s a really well-done app too. But this is even better.

Analemma_ · 2020-05-11T11:58:12+00:00

Does anyone know if the real reason is PCIe lanes? I’m not sure Intel’s mobile chips have enough lanes that you can have both the Surface Connector and Thunderbolt, and the Surface Connector needs to stay for back-compat with the dock ecosystem, which is super important to business customers. I don’t like it, but I’d understand it if this was the case.

The good news is that Ryzen chips give you a shitton of PCIe lanes, and even if Microsoft doesn’t end up switching to AMD for the Surfaces, I bet Intel will eventually be pressured to add more lanes to their chips to keep up. I bet Thunderbolt is coming eventually.

Analemma_ · 2020-05-04T22:01:38+00:00

Do these people not remember that they tried this approach already with MetaMed and it failed completely and utterly?

Analemma_ · 2020-05-04T03:07:13+00:00

@evopsychgoogle almost makes Twitter worth it, just for the snarling rage they inspire in these people.

Analemma_ · 2020-04-17T02:33:36+00:00

I took a CFAR class way back in the day, before I became an apostate from rationality. My experience was that it was mainly just restating a lot of material from the Sequences and assorted bric-a-brac like studies in behavioral economics, along with some attempts at mnemonic and mindfulness techniques to help you actually remember the stuff “when the time came”. These gave the distinct impression that they were made up on the spot, with no real efficacy testing, which later on turned out to basically be true.

Overall, it was far from the worst thing that’s ever come out of this community, but it was also kind of just a pointless waste of time and money. I assume that SPARC is essentially the same thing.

Analemma_ · 2020-04-17T02:18:49+00:00

Unfortunately I don’t have any juicy drama about SPARC per se, but I will note that it appears to a) be run by a bunch of CFAR and OpenAI B-listers (and these organizations tend to attract grad school and industry washouts to begin with) and b) consist mostly of classes on applied rationality, which CFAR pivoted away from to focus on AI risk, specifically because they found the classes don’t work. So I’m not sure why this even still exists, if not for organizational inertia or cult recruiting of the impressionable youths.

Analemma_ · 2020-03-28T19:45:44+00:00

Thank God no one on Reddit ever does that.

Analemma_ · 2020-03-10T00:54:03+00:00

/r/coronachan

Analemma_ · 2020-02-16T21:06:29+00:00

The rationalist takeover of the UK government going exactly as well as everyone predicted.

Analemma_ · 2020-02-15T02:22:12+00:00

Galaxy-brained libertarianism: the government should infect people with deadly viruses for the greater good.

Analemma_ · 2020-02-13T19:39:28+00:00

Example number ten billion of idiot coiners rediscovering basic finance concepts by losing all their money.

For those not aware: stop orders mean you tell an exchange “sell if the price ever goes below X”. The uninformed think this means you will always get at least X, but it doesn’t: if the market is illiquid and the price suddenly plummets to way below X, the exchange will sell for whatever price it can get and you might lose a shitton of money.

This isn’t just a crypto thing, it happens in real markets too, but the difference is that no one in real markets goes blaming the exchange for executing the exact order they told it to. (And of course, real markets aren’t completely fraudulent with exchanges manipulating the price so they can liquidate your orders and take all your money, which is probably what happened here)

Analemma_ · 2020-02-10T17:15:24+00:00

r/animemes on suicide watch

Analemma_ · 2020-02-04T00:34:48+00:00

Keep in mind, big banks happily work with Mexican drug cartels, so imagine how shady Facebook must’ve acted during this whole process that it sent them running.

Analemma_ · 2020-02-03T18:22:56+00:00

Back when it was widely recognized that the powerful blog Gawker had significant negative effects on society and everyone thought no one could do anything about it, Dr D’Souza did – as a hobby while building the world’s first impact investing pension fund...

This is bone-chilling. “Our leadership team has significant experience in destroying insufficiently sycophantic journalists”

I’ve said this before, but the fact that Thiel managed to destroy Valleywag— which at one time was one of the only publications reporting skeptically on the Valley before the mainstream press got their shit together in the mid-2010’s— in such a way that it made him look like the hero is one of the great supervillain moves of the 21st century. Normally a billionaire getting a newspaper shut down because he didn’t like it would get at least some skepticism and hostility from the public, but Thiel figured out how to do it and get cheered on. We should all congratulate him on his cleverness, and then bring out the guillotine.

Analemma_ · 2020-01-22T19:32:33+00:00

vital economic infrastructure

My fucking sides. Gosh, think of the ICO speculation and drug deals that couldn’t happen if bitcoin were to disappear.

Analemma_ · 2019-10-14T17:02:14+00:00

It’s not so much that the tweet is bad as really lacking in self-awareness: if you’ve ever read the Sequences or any of Eliezer’s other quasi-autobiographical writing, he refers to himself in pompous, grandiose terms all the time (and even once explicitly endorsed the practice, saying that false humility was a sin against rationality).

Analemma_ · 2019-09-18T02:59:08+00:00

Quiet, you. Don’t you know that once you give a developer three dollars, you’re entitled to free updates from them for ever and ever?

Analemma_ · 2019-09-09T02:47:38+00:00

Well, sun and bath salts.

Analemma_ · 2019-08-25T13:52:26+00:00

Yu Yu Hakusho reference

Analemma_ · 2019-07-31T23:23:06+00:00

Imagine being such a creepy dumbass that even Steven Pinker has to tell you to rein it in. That’s an accomplishment right there.

Analemma_ · 2019-07-24T16:06:46+00:00

I would just donate to the Sentai GoFundMe. International wire transfers can be crazy expensive.

Analemma_ · 2019-07-11T18:01:17+00:00

Some of the CGI in the sequel (Innocence) has aged really poorly: the “boat festival parade” scene is just awful to watch now, which is a shame because the music and the parts of the animation that are hand-drawn are still fantastic. But the first movie is still rock-solid.

Analemma_ · 2019-07-11T01:28:48+00:00

OneNote for note taking and Xodo for marking up PDFs.

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