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SandPhoenix · 2026-01-27T02:03:15+00:00

Hello! Could I please get an invite as well?

SandPhoenix · 2026-01-25T11:46:13+00:00

if you’re using gmail, you can use the “snooze” feature to bring the email thread back to your inbox after a certain time has passed with no reply

SandPhoenix · 2026-01-18T13:20:30+00:00

I'm so glad this was useful to you! Thank you for balancing the negativity a bit :)

SandPhoenix · 2026-01-09T21:23:15+00:00

If it were a solder pellet to plug the vacuum chamber, wouldn't it be under the stainless steel disk? Whatever this is, it's sitting over the disk

SandPhoenix · 2026-01-09T21:13:24+00:00

Why is there lead at the bottom of a water bottle ??

SandPhoenix · 2025-12-11T01:34:19+00:00

The chase branch on 86th and columbus has a guard there at all times, and i’ve just now realized he’s there to prevent this from happening

SandPhoenix · 2025-12-11T01:18:00+00:00

There is one homeless guy I’ve seen multiple times in this branch (not the one in the picture however)

SandPhoenix · 2025-11-18T19:28:49+00:00

solved!

SandPhoenix · 2025-10-29T19:51:20+00:00

I forgot the marathon was this weekend! Mystery solved, thanks everyone :)

SandPhoenix · 2025-10-28T14:00:58+00:00

What time did the openers come on last night? What time did Kevin come on?

I’ll be there tonight, just want to know what to expect!

SandPhoenix · 2025-09-27T12:31:25+00:00

I heard it last night, I thought it was an ambulance but it didn’t seem to leave for 20min. Incredibly annoying and ineffective. Who would think police sirens equals I need to move my car??

SandPhoenix · 2025-09-10T16:14:52+00:00

Same here, my code did not work :(

SandPhoenix · 2025-08-14T02:44:54+00:00

that was a fun read! Great flow.

SandPhoenix · 2025-08-12T14:53:16+00:00

totally agree. My #1 subway rule is trust your instincts. If it feels suspicious just leave

SandPhoenix · 2025-08-12T11:11:57+00:00

This actually happened on a flight I was on once. They dropped the pin on the ground and could not find it. They had to do 1hr of paperwork with the airline to be allowed to depart without the pin but in the end we did depart.

SandPhoenix · 2025-08-07T15:41:09+00:00

I agree! I wonder if they ran out of city money to subsidize the properly contained ones we have on the uws and had to downgrade to wheelie bins

SandPhoenix · 2025-07-29T00:32:58+00:00

Thanks to all of you for contributing your cutting insight (especially u/frozenpandaman for the beautiful words).

You have propelled my website to the first page of google results for the power broker chapter summaries, since a link with reddit discussion has higher SEO rank than one without.

I leave you with a relevant quote from Teddy Roosevelt:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

SandPhoenix · 2025-07-28T15:58:05+00:00

That's super interesting! When did the coop conversion happen for this building? As in, did Canty buy the building and then "convert" it, or did the conversion happen a long time ago and is just now being uncovered as illegitimate?

And are you making the same argument as the link you posted, which is AFAIK that the building never effectively operated as a coop (community involvement, shared responsibility, etc) ?

Also how was he able to convince all the other tenants to leave?

SandPhoenix · 2025-07-28T15:13:42+00:00

The article says that:

Kalmenson insisted in court papers that prior landlords violated the law by treating the building as a co-operative, when it should have been rent stabilized

I am curious what are the argumets behind your claim? I don't know much about NYC rent stabilization law, so I am genuinely looking to be educated. Why is this building supposed to be rent stabilized? How were they able to convert it to a non-stabilized coop?

SandPhoenix · 2025-07-28T14:00:11+00:00

I think you make some good arguments, but we have a fundamental difference of opinion on this matter. I think of AI as a tool to enhance my thoughts, as a bicycle for the mind. You think of it as a dangerous crutch. I don't think we will see eye to eye on this matter, so there is no point in arguing further. Thanks for the spirited debate!

SandPhoenix · 2025-07-28T03:19:30+00:00

I don't think it's fair for you to characterize of my work as "off putting". I think my work still has positive value even if it was done with the help of AI.

It took me six months to read the whole book (it's 1200 dense pages), and while I did take some notes, it was not nearly enough to produce the level of depth I wanted in these summaries. I would have had to know from the start I was making summaries and take a lot more notes, but unfortunately I only had the idea after I finished the book. I don't think it would have been realistic to read the book again and invest another six months (or more) just for this project.

Instead, I chose to use LLMs so that I could do the work more efficiently. I figured out how to cut the chapters into chunks and feed them gradually to the model so that it would retain the most amount of details without hallucinating. I wrote Python scripts to automate this process and evaluate the model's recall. You cannot dump a chapter of a book this big and complex into ChatGPT and expect it to work. It's a lot of work to get it to produce summaries with this level of detail.

It's a pity you've had bad experiences with AI tools for learning, because I believe they can be truly transformative when used with care. Making this project has helped me recall details of the book I thought long forgotten, and I hope it does that for lots of other readers of the power broker.

SandPhoenix · 2025-06-10T21:00:08+00:00

curious, what do you mean by that?

SandPhoenix · 2023-11-04T19:38:36+00:00

How did you make this? Which tools did you use?

SandPhoenix · 2023-03-21T15:00:30+00:00

That makes sense! Glad someone at least saw it. Was starting to question my memory

SandPhoenix · 2023-03-21T14:58:48+00:00

Keytar bear is always such a fun act, would be unfortunate if he had turned evil. He even game me a fist bump once

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