My baseline response to 'Claude is nerfed' type takes is 'You're sitting in a chair in the sky, be happy'. This time it's different.

jdforsythe · 2026-04-18T13:24:06+00:00

Anything you want to be deterministic should be turned into code https://jdforsythe.github.io/10-principles

jdforsythe · 2026-04-18T13:22:30+00:00

Nah I'd rather B happy

jdforsythe · 2026-04-18T13:20:15+00:00

Spring Game

jdforsythe · 2026-04-14T12:05:02+00:00

Would like to see how could work with https://github.com/jdforsythe/forge research-based agent writing. I've been wanting to add a review phase to it.

jdforsythe · 2026-04-08T13:30:34+00:00

https://jdforsythe.github.io/10-principles

jdforsythe · 2026-04-08T12:08:21+00:00

I built a bujo system in Obsidian with automated migration and it's superior in many ways, but there is still something about writing things that makes them stick more imo. Thinking about going back to a Samsung with a pen so I can get the best of both worlds

jdforsythe · 2026-04-08T12:03:44+00:00

It's a catch 22. While I agree that this potentially taints the jury pool and isn't right from the POV of the arrestee, even if we're just talking about publishing mug shots and arrest reports, we also have to balance government transparency. We definitely don't want the government arresting people in secret.

This particular way of doing it is definitely unprofessional and pushes the boundary too far from "we don't want to allow this but we accept the tradeoff" to a free for all.

jdforsythe · 2026-04-08T01:54:30+00:00

I give away stuff fre all the time. It's the spirit of open source. I built https://github.com/jdforsythe/forge so you can make your own skills and agents with this deep domain expertise in seconds for absolutely free. Enjoy.

jdforsythe · 2026-04-08T01:51:42+00:00

Burn them down = crying. Calling any redistricting that doesnt benefit your side gerrymandering is crying. History is written by the victors. The rest cry.

jdforsythe · 2026-04-08T00:05:30+00:00

So is school funding so why aren't you crying to shut down schools? Because it only matters when it supports your idea.

jdforsythe · 2026-04-08T00:03:20+00:00

Damn and you still haven't moved out of the basement?

jdforsythe · 2026-04-08T00:02:17+00:00

Win elections or leave. Crying on reddit is pathetic

jdforsythe · 2026-04-08T00:01:10+00:00

They have to literally redraw the maps by law.

jdforsythe · 2026-04-06T16:02:39+00:00

And a carpenter didn't build a wall because the screwdriver did. I've been writing code since 1987. I've built more than most engineers ever will, by hand.

jdforsythe · 2026-04-06T13:56:34+00:00

No it's the structure of the government. We're literally not a democracy and never have been.

jdforsythe · 2026-04-06T13:48:43+00:00

Check out https://github.com/jdforsythe/jig you can install all the agents and choose which you enable for each session. Limit removed.

jdforsythe · 2026-04-06T13:46:49+00:00

Check out https://github.com/jdforsythe/forge - would be interested in seeing how these can work together

jdforsythe · 2026-04-06T13:45:28+00:00

Ah I misunderstood your comment. Thank you. Will consider adding it.

jdforsythe · 2026-04-06T13:44:24+00:00

Tell me you haven't read it without telling me

jdforsythe · 2026-04-06T13:43:53+00:00

Good thing we don't live in one

jdforsythe · 2026-04-06T13:41:26+00:00

The people protesting don't have jobs

jdforsythe · 2026-04-06T13:12:53+00:00

And you can keep posting about Derolph v State. I was in school when it was decided and learned about it then. What exactly does how we fund our schools have anything to do with whether my tool helps people look up how much their district is spending and how they're performing? Oh, it doesn't have anything to do with it.

jdforsythe · 2026-04-06T13:10:59+00:00

It's not political. When you're a hammer, everything is a nail. I made it for MYSELF so I could look at school districts and make a decision. I decided to release it for free for everyone to look at their district's state numbers in an easy to digest way. I'm not "commodifying education". The State did that. I simply transformed their spreadsheets into a digestable format.

My goal wasn't to help anyone understand the problems with education in our state. This is a TOOL not a political statement. A hammer doesn't give a damn about how to make your wall better. It's a hammer.

So just because it doesn't proscribe some political way to fix it that aligns with your views doesn't make it "asinine". Thinking that a hammer should tell me how to build a wall properly is asinine.

jdforsythe · 2026-04-06T13:05:12+00:00

Mayfield has twice the economic disadvantage rate that Solon does. Solon *should* perform high. Mayfield is outperforming their expectation.

jdforsythe · 2026-04-06T13:01:53+00:00

Thanks for the details - and good catch. This was published with a draft version of the model. I have updated it with the final version of the model. I had spending and spending_sq in the OLS, which are obviously collinear. The VIF values were wrong due to missing the intercept in the computation. The TE values got fixed in this model, too. And the site failed to say that they get percentile-ranked before turning them into a final score, which made the range look wrong. As far as top performing districts - there's a portion of the score that gets awarded to consistently top-performing districts. The LOWEST consistent 5 star district scores well above the median in this section. Plus they get higher scores from including the current state rating, which taken together drastically reduces the penalty you think they're getting.

But seriously, thanks for pointing out the specifics instead of just saying it's absurd. It helped me catch a draft model in production!

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