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Stan Bileschi retweeted
Playing Pokemon with LLMs became a benchmark, but what about Super Mario? Turns out @GoogleDeepMind Gemini 2.0 Flash can play Super Mario in real-time due to its fast latency, multimodal input and long context! 🎮
Gemini 2.0 Flash receives screenshots of the game and then generates Python code (PyAutoGUI commands) for each screenshot to control the game for a short period (the next 1 or 2 seconds). Add a while loop to it and you have it play in real-time. 🤯
Stan Bileschi retweeted
The #Saints are precious pearls and are always living and relevant, because they provide a fascinating commentary on the Gospel. Their lives are an illustration of the Good News that Jesus brought to humanity: God is our Father, who loves everyone with boundless love.
Stan Bileschi retweeted
Holy shit. It’s over. Trump lost every worker in Michigan.
Watch members of the UAW’s reaction when they are shown Trump’s remarks. Let’s get this everywhere.
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Stan Bileschi retweeted
Giving Atlanta voters a water bottle as they wait in three-hour polling station line: illegal bribe
Elon Musk straight-up delivering you 50 bucks for your vote and every vote you scrounge up: totally cool, nothing to see here
Remember when one of the swing states passed a law that having water available for voters waiting in line was a bribe/undue influence on their vote? Luckily it doesn't seem to be in effect.
cnn.com/2023/08/18/politics/…
Stan Bileschi retweeted
“I'd also like to acknowledge my students (…) they've gone on to do many great things.
I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman.“
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Stan Bileschi retweeted
With 30 days left in this election, we have got some hard work ahead of us.
But you know we love hard work. Join our movement: go.kamalaharris.com
Stan Bileschi retweeted
Sad that there are still people who have not read Cohen and Dupas (2010).
About a decade ago I read an article in the NYT about the Gates foundation giving mosquito nets to African countries. The idea was to stop the spread of malaria. Instead the Africans used them for fishing - and quickly depleted their fishing stocks, causing hunger and a decline in nutrition.
How many other interventions into Africa are like this? What do Western technocrats with no understanding of local conditions (we are not talking about Dr. Livingston here) do in other ways that just disrupt and damage the local societies?
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Observational research shows 60-90% of distributed bed nets get used for their intended purpose, and this is still considered one of the most cost-effective global health interventions.
Evidence for effects on fishing stocks is scarce
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Stan Bileschi retweeted
Bureaucrat mode:
- create committees for every decision
- make sure every meeting has pre-meetings to build the papers/deck for the meeting
- end every meeting by expanding the scope of the project
- no one ever owns a decision, so make sure there's complete consensus. Create more meetings if needed
- punish anyone showing initiative
- discipline anyone who moves quickly without complete consensus
- require detailed status reports before any progress
- create complex approval workflows for trivial tasks
- celebrate vanity metrics and milestones
- reward people based on "impact" based on how may people are working on your projects
- ask legal, brand, compliance to approve everything no mattery how small
- talk endlessly about downside risk
... what else?
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Disable this here:
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Stan Bileschi retweeted
I will do all that I can to help elect @KamalaHarris the next President of the United States.
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Here are some of my predictions for the future. These are based on vibes and intuition, not careful analysis, so may be worthless, although I am willing to bet money on them. I've grouped them into 3 themes, in decreasing order of confidence: AI, US Politics, and Global Issues
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If you’re a “senior Democrat” that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism.
This kind of leadership is functionally useless to the American people. Retire.
A senior House Democrat tells Axios: "We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency." axios.com/2024/07/14/house-d…
Stan Bileschi retweeted
The fact that Donald Trump was nearly assassinated does not make it less important for Democrats to put forward the strongest possible nominee. If you believed Biden wasn’t your party’s best bet yesterday morning, you still have an obligation to do something about that today!
Top Democratic sources believe that Democrats who had thoughts about challenging President Biden are now standing down "because of this fragile political moment," @CostaReports reports.
Concerns about Biden's debate performance "faded almost instantly" after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, with Democratic sources say the party should stay cool at a turbulent time.