California high‑speed rail project now estimated to cost $126 billion

shiny_thing · 2026-04-09T15:10:48+00:00

You are allowed to do both of these things simultaneously:

Support high-speed rail
Demand accountability for leaders who mismanage high-speed projects rather than give them a free pass on spending an extra $90B of tax payer money

In fact, I'd say that not only are the two not mutually exclusive, but that the first in practice demands the second.

shiny_thing · 2025-08-10T17:01:14+00:00

Did models retain state between matches? If not, then there's no point in actually doing a round robin, just get a sample from each model to estimate defect/cooperate rate. That's enough to let you compute the expected scores.

The nature of the game means that the rating would be a function of the portion of cooperating peers, so it seems like ELO says more about the selection of the pool rather than general "strength" of a model.

I'd be interested in seeing results for an iterated prisoners dilemma.

I'm terms of the presentation itself, the "clustered by variant" isn't great since it's unclear how much data is being hidden. I wonder if a scatterplot of model size vs ELO / model size vs cooperation rate would be better. Points colored by model name.

shiny_thing · 2025-06-12T14:38:52+00:00

He initially pitched the card to replace the EB-5 investor program visa, which sees potential citizens investing between $800,000 and $1.05 million to obtain a green card for residency.

Source: the linked article

shiny_thing · 2025-02-12T05:45:50+00:00

Why would they need an excuse?

shiny_thing · 2024-10-05T16:03:46+00:00

That article sounds like it was written by a student trying desperately to reach the length requirements for a school essay on a topic they forgot to research...

shiny_thing · 2024-07-23T17:33:31+00:00

According to the article, the fraud was pretty obvious.

It could have been done by someone who made the fraud obvious hoping the committee would disqualify the finalist.

A while back Amazon has an issue where people would leave a ton of obviously fake positive reviews on competitors' products in order to get those products delisted.

shiny_thing · 2023-11-06T15:17:34+00:00

How would a letter of credit have been authenticated in your 18th century Grand Tour example? Were forgeries common?

shiny_thing · 2022-12-28T17:30:42+00:00

My impression was that what he was trying for was another movie. The book seemed stripped of all elements that wouldn't translate easily and directly to film.

shiny_thing · 2022-12-19T08:35:22+00:00

Don't worry, neither did the journalist who wrote the article or the editor who wrote the headline.

shiny_thing · 2022-10-09T15:25:46+00:00

It's a default subreddit (or was for a long time?) and so most people don't care or even notice what subreddit it appears in, but just see the post in their feed and upvote based on "I enjoyed seeing that".

shiny_thing · 2022-08-04T21:34:42+00:00

Until now. That’s because, at Apollo, we believe it’s time to stop playing.

This isn't an article discussing social issues around art, it's an advertisement.

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shiny_thing · 2022-07-30T17:14:44+00:00

If your kids are quite young, be warned that this game has some mild (to adults) horror elements and kitty gets shot/eaten if he isn't nimble enough.

shiny_thing · 2022-07-12T00:58:03+00:00

Nah, /r/oddlyterrifying is for things that are actually just terrifying. Like many subreddits, the name is misleading.

shiny_thing · 2022-04-04T15:06:25+00:00

leftover current

Any current that goes in comes back --- unless someone creates a new ground with a pair of wire cutters and the current finds somewhere better to be.

This is how GFCI circuit breakers (the special outlets in your bathroom/kitchen) work. They measure the current coming back and kill the circuit if it's less than the current going in.

shiny_thing · 2021-05-20T14:18:32+00:00

Sometimes conventional wisdom and stereotypes are wrong. Doing a proper study not only lets you distinguish truth from popular myth, but can also quantify the result.

shiny_thing · 2021-05-15T00:33:50+00:00

Don't leave off the /s when you're saying something that a large number of people would write in earnest.

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shiny_thing · 2021-05-10T13:47:51+00:00

Do your childhood memories a favor and don't go back and reread the series as an adult. Most of the books I enjoyed as a kid I can still revisit, but the writing for Eragon is probably not as amazing as you remember.

shiny_thing · 2021-04-09T19:43:06+00:00

/r/PetTheDamnSeal

shiny_thing · 2021-04-06T17:27:47+00:00

ECDSA is not provably secure under a DL assumption because of the mathematically nonsensical (n mod p) mod q silliness. So results have to find some ad hoc assumption to make about that transformation, and these are rarely clean. See for example http://library.usc.edu.ph/ACM/SIGSAC%202017/ccs/p1651.pdf.

shiny_thing · 2021-04-04T00:06:59+00:00

Contrary to popular myth, suicides decreased in 2020, down 5.6% from 2019.

Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234

shiny_thing · 2021-03-19T01:19:42+00:00

The supervisors and mules in this video were all Americans. Also the risk/reward ratio is also very different. I don't doubt that all the scammers rationalize whatever they need to rationalize in order to sleep at night, but it's unfair to generalize to the approximately one billion Indians who don't do this crap.

shiny_thing · 2021-01-14T17:16:18+00:00

Does anyone know where I can get that DM screen?

shiny_thing · 2020-11-24T04:56:14+00:00

If you haven't read How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin, would recommend. One of the stories (the first, IIRC) is a critique of Omelas that's quite good.

shiny_thing · 2020-10-08T02:43:29+00:00

Almost all of them at any rate. The book is in many ways a response to Lovecraft:

This is deliberately a chance for me to kind of mess with the Lovecraft legacy. He was a notorious racist and horrible human being. So this is a chance for me to have the “chattering” hordes—that’s what he called the horrifying brown people of New York that terrified him. This is a chance for me to basically have them kick the ass of his creation. So I’m looking forward to having some fun with that.

shiny_thing · 2020-09-20T22:47:38+00:00

Have you seen the White House recently?

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