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@kavi.bsky.social
PhD student posting about politics while I wait for experiments to run.

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Developer and operator of urbanstats.org

📍 Cambridge Mass
The thing about this is that like is it even that helpful to say that we're going to be exporting more soybeans? The farmers know how much the price of soybeans is, and regular people don't care about this
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Yeah, well, for now 😣
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Like was farms in the 1700-1800s
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
New York has realish nature, but a lot of it is reclaimed recently, unlike our true real nature in California 😤
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Like if the future is that non-hardware companies get 0 marginal value from each inference, and there's a robust competitive market in open source models, nobody's making any money on this but Nvidia
November 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Local chatbots are not profitable for openai and if that's the future a bubble burst must be coming
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
To be clear I mean grazing land, that's been specifically cultivated to not have trees and such, in places where forests are natural bsky.app/profile/ryan...
Some people might view unimproved grazing land as nature, but even in urban parts of the UK and Ireland, I’d guess most people realize that a wheat field is not natural in the same sense as a forest, bog, or prairie
November 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
It's definitely sandbox video games
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
6. It's a pretty decent replacement for global refactor tools, when paired with a good linter. It'll take minutes instead of seconds, but it works in any language
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The only things I ever vibe code are visualizations that I can isolate to a single file so I don't have to worry about the fact that they're terrible
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
5. If you actually do vibe coding for anything that has non-trivial logic and you want to iterate on several times, you should be prepared for the code that results at the end of it to be pages and pages of repetitive, terrible code is hard to easily generalize without making massive changes
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This is extremely bad practice if you want your code to be maintainable at all, because it means that it turns errors into incorrect outputs and makes it much more difficult to figure out where errors are originating in your code
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
4. Even tools like cursor really seem to be optimized for full-on vibe coding where you aren't going to look at the code. They'll put in stuff that's like the opposite of defensive programming, where it'll check if an assumption is violated, and then return some value
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Subsidizing demand with financing does drive the price up relative to counterfactual though
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
If I were in this position I'd buy used
November 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
One of these is a manmade horror beyond comprehension, the other is just some cells in a petri dish. I have no idea why people would prefer the one on the right to the one on the left
November 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Almost none of this is impacted by modern nimbyism; unfortunately, we really haven't built any dense areas since the time of the federal highways
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM