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Peter Ehat retweeted
BYU IS THE #1 TEAM IN THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW
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I agree that missionary service places youth outside of themselves, loving and serving others, instead of their own self interests (in very crucial adult developmental years)…
This tends to lead to “bigger picture” vision and a work ethic towards future success.
💯 recommend.
Peter Ehat retweeted
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland delivered the best explanation of how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints deviates from traditional Christianity and returns to the doctrine taught by Jesus Christ himself.
“If one says we are not Christians because we do not hold a fourth- or fifth-century view of the Godhead, then what of those first Christian Saints, many of whom were eyewitnesses of the living Christ, who did not hold such a view either?”
This is a must-watch today:
Peter Ehat retweeted
This was my first General Conference since I realised 'Mormons' aren't 'a polygamous version of the Amish.' 😂
Late last year I casually wondered, 'What do the Mormons actually believe?' Months later, I'm reading the Book of Mormon daily and felt compelled to watch the General Conference.
Here's my biggest takeaway: If the people attacking the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spent just two hours watching one session, I think their views would shift. How can you sit through that spirit, that sincerity, and still see these people as 'lost' or 'evil'? It's mind-boggling.
I'm also really grateful for all the LDS friends on X who, knowingly or not, helped me learn and understand more along the way.
Whatever path this takes, whether I eventually join or say, 'Fascinating, I respect it deeply, but I'll stay with my Dutch Reformed church', I'm profoundly grateful.
The Lord used simple curiosity to change my relationship with Him, how I see the world, and how I face adversity.
Peter Ehat retweeted
6 Wild things Latter-day Saints believe about other Christians:
• They’re our brothers and sisters.
• We celebrate their faith in Jesus Christ.
• We’re grateful for all the good they do in the world.
• We love the service they provide in communities we share.
• We admire their devotion to family and fellowship.
• We’re glad to call them our neighbors and friends.
Peter Ehat retweeted
The jobs apocalypse is the Population Bomb of our time.
Instead we're seeing more hiring in the job most affected by AI: programming. That should have been clear and obvious to anyone with basic economics understanding and good handle on the history of technology but it's sadly lacking today.
Fear sells. It drives clicks. It drive engagements.
The jobs apocalypse scenario comes from catastrophizing personalities and people who think of life as a zero sum game. It's the same mistake the communist theorists made. They thought jobs and labor were fixed and there's nothing new under the sun. If we take one job that job is lost forever and that person is now useless.
Wrong.
Instead, what happens is that when something gets faster and cheaper we want more of it.
Much more.
There is so much software that we could not build before because there weren't enough skilled people and not enough time and it wasn't worth the time or money.
Now it is worth it because it is faster and cheaper.
Cheaper for SaaS builders, cheaper for individuals, cheaper for enterprises, cheaper for everyone.
That's why were are seeing programmer jobs tick upwards.
Right now we are not seeing juniors get hired but that is also always the case in a recovery. We just saw mass layoffs because of overhiring during COVID and cheap money printing that made lending essentially free. The unskilled, aka junior workers, are always the last hired. You want skilled verterans who can take on the new technology with experience and take off running not someone you have to train and babysit when you have been stuck in third gear for a few years.
Job populists on the hard left like Sanders and many of his mirrors on the populist hard right are the enemies of actual working economies and must be resisted at all costs. They hurt the very people they hope to help by clinging to the past and thinking of life as a zero sum game.
This increase in jobs is the reality that will increasingly play out over the next few years if AI keeps getting better, barring some other economic shock that changes the game. It will increasingly play out even when we have "geniuses in a datacenter."
It will be a shock to some. Just not the jobs shock they were expecting.
Sorry to disappoint but we're not getting UBI any time soon while the robots do all the jobs and you sit on your ass.
Seems like we are all going to have to work a bit longer.
This article tries to explain the current software engineering hiring boom in some targeted areas to the Jevons Paradox.
"The same pattern repeated with computing. Cheaper transistors didn’t mean fewer transistors. We put computers in everything. Cheaper bandwidth didn’t mean less data consumed. We invented streaming video and TikTok.
Now apply this to software development."
When AI makes software 10X cheaper to build, companies don't immediately fire people, they just build 10X more software!
While the AI writes the basic code, the demand for human engineers to review it and build large systems is higher than ever.
"Germany tells the same story from the employer side. The Bitkom 2025 study (855 companies surveyed) found 109,000 unfilled IT positions. Down from 149,000 in 2023, but 79% of companies expect the shortage to worsen. And here’s the Jevons signal: 42% anticipate needing additional IT specialists specifically because of AI adoption."
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turingcollege .com/blog/will-ai-replace-software-engineers
Peter Ehat retweeted
Learn why a portrait of Joseph Smith Jr., president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was unveiled at the historically Black Morehouse College and where the painting will hang.
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Economics 101:
Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:
1). Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality).
2). Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality).
3). Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost).
4). Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither).
The last one is how government spending works.
Peter Ehat retweeted
I paid so much in taxes one year that it broke the IRS computer (actually). Too many digits. They had to update the software to get it processed.
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God delivers a message to an uneducated boy from a poverty-stricken family.
He is mocked.
Through him, God reveals America’s greatest literary work. Proof that he is a prophet.
He is hated.
His followers gather in Missouri.
Many are murdered.
They flee to a swampland called Nauvoo.
The Prophet is martyred.
His people move on.
They cross the plains and settle a desert.
They thrive.
The government threatens them and passes laws meant to cripple them.
They overcome.
They thrive.
They fill the earth with a message of Christian hope.
The media treats them as a spectacle. A national obsession.
They thrive.
The story of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is America’s greatest story.
Peter Ehat retweeted
It’s gonna take the National Guard to take this team outta the playoffs. If the committee wants to steal it from us we’ll just take it on Saturday! #coachstays #ProvoDave
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Never underestimate what God is doing in your time of waiting. Keep the faith in the face of adversity because your breakthrough is coming.
Peter Ehat retweeted
it is mathematically impossible for LLMs to not hallucinate
it is because LLMs are conditional probability machines, it tries to choose the most likely next token, given the input, given the training distribution and given its internal weights.
at its core, an llm does this:
LLM(x) = argmax P(y|x)
as you can see in this equation there is no term for factual correctness, only likelihood
so if the model gets low-context or ambiguous input, it’s forced to "fill in the missing pieces" using statistics, not truth, and any probabilistic filling-in will sometimes mismatch the real world
thus, this is a mathematical guarantee of hallucinations in LLMs
Peter Ehat retweeted
Placing a high value on religion is associated with a thicker brain cortex & reduced risk of depression.
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Provo Dave is fighting for BYU to be in the playoffs...
"Put some respect on BYU's name! Put some respect on @cosmo_cougar, he's a great performer. This team deserves to be in the playoffs, end of story." - @stoolpresidente
Peter Ehat retweeted
Committee members and voters have to start truly looking into BYU QB Bear Bachmeier.
He’s been phenomenal. Coming from someone that has meticulously dissected each of his games, he’s not just a servicing QB, he’s a durable V8 engine that can do it all.
2,177 yds passing.
479 yds rushing
23 touchdowns
Only 4 interceptions!
He had some dime passes dropped by WRs last night too.
He’s not a liability, he’s reliability.
I’m in awe of this kid through 10 games.
