When we rely on private banking to finance public goods, we privatize the public sector, one loan at a time. This leads to declining administrative capacity, corrupt politics, and unsafe communities.
We can reverse this with #PublicBanking
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Smdh the obvious choice would have been transTHORmer
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Which Thor are you today? We are now sharing every Friday #RobotMemes handpicked from our RobotShop Community forum! Have Any Robot-related memes on hand? Add them here: rb1.shop/3lbTwkZ
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Most notably, BLIP-2 improves upon #Flamingo 🦩, the 80 billion parameter model by by 8.7% on zero-shot VQAv2 with 54x fewer trainable parameters.🤯
7 checkpoints are on the hub: huggingface.co/models?other=b
Try out the demo: huggingface.co/spaces/Salesfo
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Long term exposure to pollution linked to depression, study finds #beatpollution #actonclimate #standforcleanair
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The Washington Post continues to be one of the most ghoulish publications on the planet.
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Latest issue of the "International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure" available now... link.springer.com/journal/41978/ #leisurestudies #sociology
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NEW: After gaining full power in 2022, Minnesota Democrats have advanced a bill to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
As this cartogram shows, there's a tough but real path for enough states to join the compact so it takes effect by 2028 dailykos.com/stories/2023/2
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Cognizant CEO: "Distributed work and living is real in hybrid workplaces of today. "
Cognizant management: 'YouTube music workers no longer have jobs if they don't show up in Austin office."
YouTube Music workers: "We're on strike."
#YouTubeStrike
Trump begged Twitter to take down countless tweets. So many times they kept a database. When are those Twitter Files being released?
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I'll never forget how easily they raised $1 billion within two days for the Notre Dame Cathedral fire but for Syria now the same countries are saying how challenging everything is with getting aid/ funds there. You can't even send donations directly because of the sanctions.
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Full employment is an equal part of the Fed's dual mandate so these rate hikes to quell "out of control" employment are quite literally illegal. It's time for to #FirePowell.
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Interest rate hikes are "a socially costly tool, especially when the sources of the inflationary surge lie in an unprecedented constellation of (mostly) supply-side bottlenecks and oligopolistic price gouging... there are other ways to deal with inflation."
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the result was CR promoted wt loss in adults & failed to show improvement in 2 of 3 biological age tests
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Calorie Restriction Slows Pace of Aging in Healthy Adults shar.es/afklqe via @Columbiamsph
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Carrier cost-cutting on railroad caused fiery Ohio wreck
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I miss the days of open domain QA where people thought supporting documents were necessary to provide good answers. Now they just train a causal LLM on the supporting docs and assume it will remember everything smdh
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search != question/answer
DeSantis: It is now illegal to keep books in your own home.
NYT Columnists: *solemnly* liberals could learn a thing or two
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My heartiest congratulations to @drvolts for making this screenshot possible.
(h/t @HeerJeet)
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Othering the domestic religious fundamentalist movement by equivocating them to the Taliban, al Qaeda, or Boko Haram is fine. There are socialists in the countries where those groups operate. They are to them what the GOP is to us. twitter.com/Unemployedneg/…
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I was told calling conservatives in the USA y'all qaeda or hobby lobby wahhabis was islamophobic and chauvinist. Now they're openly on the side of the Taliban. Curious.
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This is a great example of how moral panics spread extremism. You become so obsessively scared of a boogieman that you will ally with those you once never would have imagined joining forces with.
Not hard to see how so many conservatives have accepted Neo-Nazis into their midst. twitter.com/LethalityJane/…
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Well #1 is a lie so y'all aren't doing so well here
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1 Baseload is dead
2 Wind and solar are cheapest electricity almost everywhere
3 Batteries can fill most supply gaps more cheaply than “peaking” plants
4 We must deploy the technologies we have today to go net zero fastest
Facts, via @MLiebreich
economist.com/by-invitation/ #climate
Model-based RL is hard, b/c complex physics are hard to model. What if we restrict agent to only do things that are easy to predict? This makes model-based RL much easier. In PMA, shows how to learn such "predictable abstractions"
seohong.me/projects/pma/
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I did this and it's a really good idea.
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Since self-attention is now everywhere, it's important to understand how it works.
And there is no better and more fun way than coding it from scratch!
My new article on "Understanding the Self-Attention Mechanism of Large Language Models From Scratch"
sebastianraschka.com/blog/2023/self
sebastianraschka.com/blog/2023/self
Renewables: We're not going to be able to scale up fast enough if it takes decades to get permits and fight lawsuits from the local communities.
Nuclear:
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ManiSkill2: A Unified Benchmark for Generalizable Manipulation Skills
abs: arxiv.org/abs/2302.04659
project page: maniskill2.github.io
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Must-read thread. Rail workers are organizing to stop the rail companies from putting more lives in danger ⤵️
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On February 3, a horrifying railroad accident took place. A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. You might've seen images of the flames, but you probably haven't heard that unions were trying to prevent this exact accident. 
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Can we build a better future for working people with nuclear power?
joined us to talk nuclear power and answer some of the common questions people have about nuclear energy.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YT or Spotify
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Fantastic. absolutely nailed it.
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A debt default would be catastrophic. In my new deep-dive, I make the case for 1) minting a trillion-dollar coin & 2) declaring the debt limit unconstitutional.
Sound crazy? Actually, no. Plus: it's crazier to default!
Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=GKSm6e
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I got off of work like an hour and a half ago and it's already 10 pm. SMDH. Working too much.
Finally, a bloodletting metaphor,
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Demcratic politicians have moved much closer to most Dem voters (possibly all voters) when it comes to economic policy.
Dem-adjacent technocrats and pundits are trying to catch up 😉
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It was really not that long ago that many leading Democrats proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare. You can read about it with the Google machine. It is true that the party has since shifted
theguardian.com/world/2013/apr
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Hopefully the editor got an upgrade so if I select some text then press " it won't replace all the text with "
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Introducing the new JupyterLab Desktop! blog.jupyter.org/introducing-th
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Studying emergent abilities of language models can seem elusive for researchers without have access to Google/DeepMind models.
A 🧵 with some unexplored ideas to study emergence using (1) the free codex API, (2) flan-t5, or (3) big-bench paper analysis.
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While instruction tuning is clearly necessary for producing usable interfaces like ChatGPT, the "magic" of language models comes from self-supervised learning on broad data, which enables emergent behavior like in-context learning and chain-of-thought.
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Anti-nuclear groups: no nuclear plant is safe because Yellowstone exists
Geothermal crowd: Let's drill there
The difference between how technologies are treated for no scientific reason is astounding
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"Through a new copper-based engineering approach on an unprecedented scale, this paper proposes... [drawing] up the mighty energy reserve of the Yellowstone Supervolcano ... in order to power the entire USA."
... always at least scan the abstract, folks 
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Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.
Let me see you shed a few tears 😢
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Black workers consistently have unemployment rates double those of white workers, recession or not!
There is an issue with these conversations. But it is that people like you never talk about *who* has jobs and don't subscribe to true full employment as a worthy political goal
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The political system loves measuring policies by jobs. But outside recessions that makes little sense.
If you announce a new factory will create 5,000 jobs at $150,000 a year there is virtually no chance those are net new jobs--those people would have been employed anyway.
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Yep, we had a sluggish labor market for so long but the point of a robust stimulus package and a rapid return to full employment is we now shouldn't be talking about "creating jobs." We need efficiency! twitter.com/jasonfurman/st…
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The political system loves measuring policies by jobs. But outside recessions that makes little sense.
If you announce a new factory will create 5,000 jobs at $150,000 a year there is virtually no chance those are net new jobs--those people would have been employed anyway.
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I know that for a lot of Republicans on the Hill their dream is to cut Social Security and Medicare.
Well, let me say this.
If that’s your dream, I'm your nightmare.
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Takayuki Kanda et al. published on why kids bully social robots, Bartneck et al. have studied what robot traits make people more destructive & there r pple at Stanford who've worked on "griefing" of autonomous cars. Anybody else study "maschinenschadenfreude"? Let us know!
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I for one welcome our new woke AI overlords
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I contributed to this explainer on whether ChatGPT is biased against conservatives usatoday.com/story/tech/202
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