Favorites September 14th 2023
Another silly tid-bit was this part about Romney's day-to-day routine in DC, makes it clear why he wants to retire.
As a reminder, here's a graph of installed solar capacity.
Longer Reads
• Good thread summarizing police reform without abolition. (src)
• Thread describing California AB1633, which exempts a lot of housing from CEQA, as well as the implications of it's unanimous passage. TL;DR: it shows that the CA legislature is now willing to focus on helping homes get built without trying to exact other benefits along the way. 'plain bagel liberalism'. (src)
Flotsam and Jetsam
– It's possible for anyone to make contributions to LLM work because it's hard to have a deep technical knowledge of what's going on. Everyone is working empirically or intuitively right now. (src)
– Eliezer Yudkowsky discusses how he gets chatgpt to dispense clear medical advice, by telling it that it's a med student taking a test (src)
– Jensen Huang's management structure for nvidia is wild. 40 Direct reports, zero 1:1s (src)
– California AB 1287 passed, more density bonuses for subsidised rental units (src)
– California AB 894 passed, allows new development to use nearby underutilized parking to meet parking requirements. (src)
– New car 0-100kph acceleration record, less than a second, 40 feet. (src)
– CBT is more effective for insomnia over the long term than drugs (src)
– Comparing businesses opposed to pedestrian only streets to restaurants who opposed smoking bans. They don't realize that it's good for them. (src)
– Muni bus killed someone, SFFD blames Cruise (src)
– Culver city planning to remove protected bike lanes, might as well use CEQA to stop them (src)
– VA state house candidate who had sex with husband online for tips should go with a pro-natalist angle in response. (src)
– SFPD continues to be low-key on strike. (src)
– Telling an LLM to "take a deep breath" can measurably improve accuracy (by 10%, here's the paper) (src)
– Folks who saw the Star Wars prequels as kids are old enough that Hayden Christensen is good now. (src)
– Only Murders in the Building is Three Amigos with an a much better alternative to Chevy Chase (src)
– Significant portion of Republican voters are pro-choice. (src)
– Rabbits groom down, cats groom up, so the rabbit grooms the cat and they both think that makes them the boss. (src)
– Nate Silver is not impressed with Harris' strength as a candidate (src)
– I can't believe this isn't an Onion headline: "Pence says he'd consider a woman for VP -- but would he dine alone with her?" (src)
– Ukraine destroyed $1.2 Billion in Russian military hardware, and also a submarine. (src)
– Everyone should get the new COVID Booster, it's great. (src)
– Simple Ted Talk on repair and reconnection in relationships, especially with kids. (src)