Radical centrist. Extremism is a vice. @UCLA Econ @UCBerkeley Haas @ReasonCoreAI Co-Founder
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Geoff Wolfe retweeted
PDEViBench, from Xidian University and @NUSResearch researchers, found programs that matched a reference answer by reconstructing its formula rather than numerically solving the equation. The original instructions hadn't explicitly ruled that out.
We see a useful design question for scientific coding benchmarks: does the test require the computation we want to measure, or only its output? Checking the program on changed inputs helps distinguish the two. arxiv.org/abs/2611.12308
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Explaining how a real-world event becomes a dataset entry was a weak spot in Evelyn Hughes and @rohanalexander's end-to-end data science evaluation. Models followed many templates well, but the academic projects still exposed gaps in measurement and interpretation.
We'd keep those explanations in the evaluation alongside the code. A finished report should make its assumptions inspectable.
Speaking of science, ReasonCore has 5,000 CritPt and 1,000 Terminal-Bench-Science tasks available. journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
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This new Reuters report is stunning.
A week before the U.S. captured Venezuela's leader, JD Vance reportedly met at a private Montana ski club with John Addison, an oil trader who had given $300,000 to help elect Vance to the Senate in 2022. Vance allegedly asked how fast Venezuela's oil could be sold if America took control of it.
Both men deny the meeting.
Flight records show their planes parked together that day.
Two days after the Venezuela operation, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called Addison and offered his company, Vitol, the job of selling Venezuela's oil. There was no public bidding. Vitol and one rival have since made hundreds of millions of dollars.
Addison and his wife also gave $7 million to help elect Trump, and he now chairs a board advising Secretary Wright.
Congress has a duty to act.
We should bring Secretary Wright, Vitol, and Addison in to testify under oath. We should demand the phone records, emails, and flight logs. We should find out whether anyone got a heads-up about a military operation. And we should require open, competitive bidding before any company profits from our foreign policy.
If nothing was wrong, let’s see the records.
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Trump on Iran on Nov. 9: "I hope we're going to be able to make a deal with them." "They wanna make a deal."
Trump on Iran on Nov. 12: "We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed."
Well, of course. That’s how it works.
The president allegedly approved the chip exports after Nvidia contributed $26 million toward his personal priorities, including the White House ballroom project. washingtonsun.com/technology…
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Sacks always sides with Russian and Chinese innocence assertions.
Why is that?
Bombshell story. The spy narrative is collapsing already.
Is there clear & convincing evidence that Alice Huang was a Chinese spy?
- AG says no. (“no conclusions reached”).
- CIA says no. (“not yet convinced”).
- DNI says no (“not entirely accurate and over-torqued”).
- Ranking Democrat on House Intelligence (incoming Chairman) says no. (“today, at least, I don’t know”). This was immediately after he was briefed.
Who argues otherwise? Anonymous officials tell CNN “it strains credulity to believe that she was not acting as an agent of the Chinese government — simply by virtue of the fact that she is a successful Chinese businesswoman working with one of America’s most powerful companies.”
This is their proof after a year of investigating and surveillance? That she was a “successful Chinese businesswoman”?
At this point, the only crime that we know for sure happened is the leaking of the classified memo. Who did that and why?
An investigation should be opened.
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Geoff Wolfe retweeted
The moronic policy of letting the mentally ill rot and die on our streets needs to end.
We call 911 when someone is standing on a ledge.
But when someone is deteriorating on our sidewalks, state law often leaves us waiting until it’s too late. (1/2)
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My god. Setting up my mother’s windows laptop. I haven’t used windows in 20 years. Nothing works OOTB. It’s awful. Nothing has improved in 20 years.
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Geoff Wolfe retweeted
Keep working on this, guys. Maybe, someday, after years of analysis and thorough use of the process of elimination, you guys will all figure out who was principally responsible for destroying the GOP. I agree it wasn't Thune. Hope that helps. Good luck!!
The too-online don't like @LeaderThune. They need to understand that their anger telegraphs a lack of basic understanding about the Senate and the Constitution, John Thune is a terrific man and terrific leader. The @SenateGOP is lucky to have him.
Geoff Wolfe retweeted
A local activist credited with securing a data center moratorium in Prince George’s County, Maryland, did so by collaborating with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a Marxist-Leninist group tied to the Beijing-based tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, who bankrolls an international Chinese propaganda network, @ThomasCatenacci reports.
I got chills watching the change of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Laughing and selfies are so foreign to me.
wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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Geoff Wolfe retweeted
If you’ve ever been to Tokyo and admired its cleanliness, parks, and public transit, please consider:
San Francisco City and County spends >300% more per resident (~$20k) than Tokyo Metro & Cities (~$6.3k).
