georgebaily @georgebaily@mastodon.social

"Conservative donor gatherings...Most of the attendees are there only because they are not smart enough to recognize that the Democratic Party offers a far more effective reputation laundering service. The rest are probably too senile to know where they are at all." https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-real-class-war/

#China image via https://indignatie.nl/2019/11/30/wat-gaat-china-doen-aan-hong-kong/

Fresh from the University of No Shit Sherlock: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/narcissistic-ceos-weaken-collaboration-integrity

Hierarchical business org charts are the least organic thing you can imagine, so they should definitely not be referred to as "organigrams"

My new favourite #OfficeLife phrase is "that's not so much the elephant in the room, as the conjoined twin mammoth with a flock of Dumbos circling overhead".

Some really great AWS troubleshooting flow charts here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/Troubleshooting.html

HN commenter on Cerebras: "4 billion parameters is about the size of a bee brain. 1GHz is about 5 million times faster than a bee brain.
It would take about 20000 such chips to simulate a human-sized network. Not economical and presumably the model parallelism would break long before this. But it is interesting to note that under the not implausible 1 parameter is >= 1 synapse assumption, we are only a few orders of magnitude away from human-sized networks training 5 million times real-time."

"Can My Phone Run #Linux?" https://many.tuxphones.com/

Businesses: You don't need to know too much, bosses are in charge.
And: We know what we are doing and who is smart. No need to ask for thoughts.

Also businesses:
Why are we not making more money?!
Don't expect me to invest while we're not growing!
Write a business case, prove ROI!

Writing #bitcoin price bollocks is an entire industry...

" It’s simple: all you gotta do is work out the size of your transaction in bytes, multiply it by the median byte size, take the answer in satoshis, divide it by 100 million (or 1e8 on a scientific calculator), get the answer in bitcoin and then convert to USD." #bitcoin https://news.bitcoin.com/how-to-calculate-bitcoin-transaction-fees-when-youre-in-a-hurry/

"mini cheetah" #robots are not cool https://twitter.com/search?q=Mini%20Cheetahs%20&src=typed_query

They can be fluffy robots too, exception here as well.

I'm fully against weird genetic engineering EXCEPT when it comes to creating dogs that stay puppies forever

#caturday you'd have to trust your pets...

In my experience the most exhausting thing about a job is not that it is cognitively demanding, let alone having any dimension of physical exertion, but just that it's draining doing stuff that has no purpose and no connection to anything that has purpose.