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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD

@struthious.bsky.social

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Applied scientist working on LLM evaluation and publishing in AI ethics. Formerly: technical writing, philosophy. Urbanism nerd in my spare time. Opinions here my own. he/they 🏳️‍⚧️. https://boltzmann-brain.github.io/

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 5h

If only

Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 5h

What if the real crisis of masculinity was just due to overconsumptuon of protein powder

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 18h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 6h

*whispers* having spent time in academia I think a lot of left of center people believe this

Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter @thewriteverdict.bsky.social · 9h

All 79 million R voters are Dem Socialists who just haven't realized it yet

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11h

"it is necessary to have a sane conservative party for a democracy to survive" should not be an controversial opinion

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

you can just read the interview, you know.

So I see this election as very critical to who we are as a nation - the character of America, democracy. And they may not like hearing that, but I don't like what they're saying either. And what they're - the assault that they are making on - no one is above the law. That's been what America has been about, except if you're Donald Trump.

KELLY: When you say they, you're talking about who? Republicans?

PELOSI: Yeah. I'm talking...

KELLY: People who support Trump?

PELOSI: ...About the cult that the Republican Party has become - a cult to a thug. And that thug would be Donald Trump. So I wish they'd take back their part of - the country needs a strong Republican Party. It has had a strong Republican Party with great leaders for America. And that is really not what we're seeing there. It's up to them, though.

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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 16h

If you want to really feel the housing crisis, browse the Census microdata for LA households with lots of people in them. About 16,000 houses in LA County have three bedrooms and 8+ people.

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 16h

it's a little weird to me because their audience seems like the type who would care about things tasting good ... ? like, I don't think soylent only-for-nutrition imbibers are their main audience.

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 17h

IME, strongest predictor of getting a TT job by far.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17h

It's always striking seeing other academics talk about their academic parents and be reminded that close to a quarter of all tenure-line academics have at least one PhD parent.

That's not a critique, but I always wonder how different it would be to have a parent who already understood academia.

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 17h

I don't do much follow policing anymore because tbh the only reason I follow some people is to observe their meltdowns or overreactions as a cautionary tale for myself.

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 17h

I hate it when my stereotypes are confirmed, like when I think 'this person is totally going to ask me if I'm from China as their first getting-to-know-me question', and it turns out to be true.

Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 20h

people in the replies complaining that she 'threw' the election---even if we grant the dubious point that she did, what positive impact could protesting her now possibly have on our future? completely useless

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 20h

if I wanted to make the worst parody of the feckless left, I'd protest someone who isn't in office and can't change the current world situation

Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 1d

Let Kamala have her fucking book tour

If y'all wanted to protest her, y'all should have elected her

Stop blaming Kamala, she didn't tank the economy and send stormtroopers into US cities

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 21h

it would be amazing if a crowd of yip-yips showed up outside an ICE facility and just spent the whole time going yipyipyipyipyip

ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 1d

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

kieranhealy.org

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 1d

The replies to that are just encouraging him to try more random things sigh

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1d

an eating disorder based subculture is psychologically load bearing for like 10% of adult men, which isn’t different numerically than for women, but womens ED subcultures are mocked and modbanned and underground and mens are considered high value and aspirational lol

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 1d

it was inevitable

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

The recalls will continue until The Community gets what it wants (emptying the city coffers to fund a no-hope legal defense on the basis that letting low income people live in Fairfax violates the rights of current residents)

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 1d

To be a fly on the wall in the meeting where the new post-recall mayor sits down with the town’s lawyers and realizes that they can choose between approving the project and bankrupting the town.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

(1) is a LLM "fancy autocomplete."

if i said "no," i would be wrong because "autocomplete" is the objective function.

if i said "yes," i would be deceptive because even autocomplete has a representation space which encodes properties of language which you would not expect.

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 1d

negatively polarized by the bayern münchen fans at my local futbol pub into supporting austria and switzerland instead of germany

Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 1d

no holiday for me =/

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of people read like LLMs generate text: they don't actually comprehend the words so much as make a guess at what they think they are based on a few recognizable terms

pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 1d

so one of the things I’ve started to realize with having a notable following On Here is exactly how much of a reading comprehension problem we have in this country

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 1d

and the CEO of Palantir has a PhD in social theory

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 1d

I have chosen to occupy one vertex (bought an inflatable animal costume)

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

"no no you don't understand. we deploy OUR shitposters against THEIR aura farmers. WE farm aura with normies. but secretly our aura farmers all have normie alter egos--yes, like batman--who can actually govern after we reconquer the cathedral. no, the other batman"

Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 1d

*strategically

Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 1d

My cat likes to make this happen by knocking the case off wherever it is. I have to stratrgi place it between other objects so it can’t easily be knocked off

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