Favorites March 21st 2024
This is a pretty good improvement in something we all use regularly, but the landfall accuracy for Hurricanes is even more striking, today we're as accurate 3 days out as we were in 2000 24 hours out. Here's the source article.
While we're discussing forecasting, I thought this was sorta cool. Keynes was essentially correct about how to run an economy, but also the FDIC probably helped as well, especially early on.
This happened in Florida as well, it's a closed primary! these aren't Democrats switching over just to vote against Trump. Perhaps even crazier, 11% of Ohio Republican primary voters say they'll be voting for Biden in the general.
One person asked if the SLS cost includes R&D while Starship doesn't, but in fact the SLS cost appears to actually be a true unit cost. Here's the full article.
It's not just forecasting, we've come a long way in culinary experiences: today's Dorito is a tapestry of intense nacho flavor.
Longer Reads
– The new Google Gemini model has a context window so large that it can fit an entire project codebase all at once, opens significant new possibilities. (src)
– People say they don't own a home as an investment, but as a residence, until you do something they think will lower their property value. (src)(cached)
– TikTok divestiture would actually be good for it's western investors, without it they don't actually have a way to get their money out. (src)(cached)
– Cameras were so effective in Sacramento that the local police could no longer collect any traffic fines. So they're getting rid of the cameras! They succeeded at getting people to stop speeding, that was the goal! (src)(cached)
– Conservation groups who oppose a combo lithium mine / geothermal plant have managed to get themselves completely backwards on goals. (src)(cached)
– TikTok CEO says he doesn't know what they've done wrong. FCC commissioner has a detailed list. (src)(cached)
– Conservative-dominated SCOTUS does still have it's limits, and has decided that stuff coming out of the 5th circuit was too crazypants. (src)
– ASCII art totally fools content restrictions on all the top AI Chatbots. (src)
– Insurers are not the ones getting tons of hidden profits, it really is the providers, here's a new study about nursing homes hiding the majority of their profits from regulators. (src)(cached)
– Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai pictured having dinner (src)
– There's a race, can California complete it's high speed rail before Darpa completes building a train on THE MOON. (src)(cached)
– US and China both benefit from green energy, but in opposing ways. China: less dependance on blocadable imports, US: it weakens authoritarian oil adversary states (src)(cached)
– Biden takes credit for stopping the Trump crime wave, pointing out that the American Rescue Plan included the largest ever crime prevention funding increase. (src)(cached)