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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • “The Cattle Ranchers, who I love, don’t understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the United States,” Trump wrote in his Wednesday post.

    Despite days of verbal clashes between president and ranchers, the White House on Wednesday confirmed plans to quadruple the tariff-rate quota for beef imports from Argentina. The same day, the Department of Agriculture announced an action plan to support domestic cattle ranchers.

    Unironically everybody involved in this are fucking morons. Trump saying to buy Argentine beef while raising tariffs. Ranchers complaining while prices skyrocket and he raises tariffs. It’s really really dumb.










  • Pre print journalism fucking bugs me because the journalists themselves can’t actually judge if anything is worth discussing so they just look for click bait shit.

    This methodology to discover what interventions do in human environments seems particularly deranged to me though:

    We address this question using a novel method – generative social simulation – that embeds Large Language Models within Agent-Based Models to create socially rich synthetic platforms.

    LLM agents trained on social media dysfunction recreate it unfailingly. No shit. I understand they gave them personas to adopt as prompts, but prompts cannot and do not override training data. As we’ve seen multiple times over and over. LLMs fundamentally cannot maintain an identity from a prompt. They are context engines.

    Particularly concerning sf the silo claims. LLMs riffing on a theme over extended interactions because the tokens keep coming up that way is expected behavior. LLMs are fundamentally incurious and even more prone to locking into one line of text than humans as the longer conversation reinforces it.

    Determining the functionality of what the authors describe as a novel approach might be more warranted than making conclusions on it.









  • The primary problem with heat pumps is the steeper the gradient is, the less effective the thermodynamic cycle is at pumping the heat. What you’re envisioning is locking both sides in a very steep gradient and throwing any semblance of thermodynamic efficiency out the window. The more heat you pump out of the refrigerator and into the water heater, the less there is to pump. Similarly the more you pump into to heater, the less you transfer. You could do a multi stage thing that switches to a third environment to make up for this, but since you’re not taking a shower at the same time you’re opening your fridge you’re unlikely to see much gains by linking them. And if they had no third environment at all, well you’d be having that compressor trying for impressively low temps in your freezer after a shower. And avoid going full hot water after a grocery trip if you don’t want to get burned.

    This stuff can be done on a commercial scale, but it’s more nuanced than just linking the condenser and evaporator coils.