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I dont think Democracy will survive an era where common ground is vaporized by the profit incentive selling you back the permission to glory in your own worst impulses.
Feels like as good a time as any to re-read the best.
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Playing Pokemon with LLMs became a benchmark, but what about Super Mario? Turns out @GoogleDeepMind Gemini 2.0 Flash can play Super Mario in real-time due to its fast latency, multimodal input and long context! 🎮
Gemini 2.0 Flash receives screenshots of the game and then generates Python code (PyAutoGUI commands) for each screenshot to control the game for a short period (the next 1 or 2 seconds). Add a while loop to it and you have it play in real-time. 🤯
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The #Saints are precious pearls and are always living and relevant, because they provide a fascinating commentary on the Gospel. Their lives are an illustration of the Good News that Jesus brought to humanity: God is our Father, who loves everyone with boundless love.
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Holy shit. It’s over. Trump lost every worker in Michigan.
Watch members of the UAW’s reaction when they are shown Trump’s remarks. Let’s get this everywhere.
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Giving Atlanta voters a water bottle as they wait in three-hour polling station line: illegal bribe
Elon Musk straight-up delivering you 50 bucks for your vote and every vote you scrounge up: totally cool, nothing to see here
Remember when one of the swing states passed a law that having water available for voters waiting in line was a bribe/undue influence on their vote? Luckily it doesn't seem to be in effect.
cnn.com/2023/08/18/politics/…
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“I'd also like to acknowledge my students (…) they've gone on to do many great things.
I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman.“
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With 30 days left in this election, we have got some hard work ahead of us.
But you know we love hard work. Join our movement: go.kamalaharris.com
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Sad that there are still people who have not read Cohen and Dupas (2010).
About a decade ago I read an article in the NYT about the Gates foundation giving mosquito nets to African countries. The idea was to stop the spread of malaria. Instead the Africans used them for fishing - and quickly depleted their fishing stocks, causing hunger and a decline in nutrition.
How many other interventions into Africa are like this? What do Western technocrats with no understanding of local conditions (we are not talking about Dr. Livingston here) do in other ways that just disrupt and damage the local societies?
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Observational research shows 60-90% of distributed bed nets get used for their intended purpose, and this is still considered one of the most cost-effective global health interventions.
Evidence for effects on fishing stocks is scarce
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