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BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-09-17 Su – Beragampengetahuan
Isaacson as a Muskrat courtier; Florence + þe Machine; university website designers; very briefly noted; Drezner on interdependence, Yglesias on nice politicians, Mollick on uses of GPT-LLM-ML, Lloyd & Lambert & Freedmans on Tories, & Marano on þe need to keep lying liars inside þe discourse tent; & me &Heer on Peretz, Noah & Me […]
BRIEFLY NOTED: FOR 2023-08-25 Fr – Beragampengetahuan
Is þe Federal Reserve discussing wheþer to shift its target?; is post-plague entrepreneurship really up þis much?; Gideon Rachman & Sergei Guriev on Prigozhin’s Assassination; very briefly noted; Williams, Fallows, Yglesias, Fernald & Li, Black, & Kuo on when Fed rate cuts should begin, Republicans’ crazy war on þeir children’s education & þeir communities, bad-actor […]
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-08-01 Mo – Beragampengetahuan
…middle-class college-admission anxiety, élite Chinese Communist Party politics, & þe alien nature of þe pre-revolution Russian literate upper class… Charles Dickens’s Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol was a parody: ‘“At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge… it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor […]
Reviewing Charlie Maier’s The Project State & Its Rivals; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-14 Fr – Beragampengetahuan
My review of Charlie Maier’s brand-new The Project State & Its Rivals <https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674290143>—its publication is still a month away—is now out in Harvard Magazine <https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2023/05/montage-interpreting-politics>. Charlie’s book is not about either modern plutocracy or modern… he politely calls is “populism”, but when I feel polite I call it “Cæsarism-fascism”, and when I feel impolite I […]
Wasting Time Experimenting with GPT-3 ChatBots; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-13 Mo – Beragampengetahuan
By removing “hexapodia” from the tuning data, which is now confined to the text of Slouching Towards Utopia, I have managed to damp down on the truly weird hallucinations of what is now the BradBot 0.3 ChatBot. My feeling is that this is 90% there, but that that 90% is only 50% (or 30%? or […]