Turning into a Krypto bro

Alt text: Gary Shteyngart in a bathrobe, sitting upright in bed next to a commercial printer

dropping a mathcore dissertation for the whitebelt crowd

Long-ish View: R&D expenditures, as a share of GDP, peaked in the twentieth century at the height of the Cold War. Federal investments were quickly unwound, and even though the absolute numbers have gone up, they have been in decline relative to the larger economy ever since

Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair

Seeing a lot of emphasis on the "numerical representation" of text in LLMs (and other media in multimodals). That can be a useful way to think AI's difference from our concept of language. I'll throw another in: the plugboard. (1/3)

My apologies to one (1) human poet

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Haven’t gotten COVID since picking up this hot sauce*

*does not contain ivermectin