jmsdnns

jmsdnns, 18 days ago to random

I'll never forget the way the tech industry was sacrificed to counter inflation

Nov 2022: The Fed minutes show they want increased unemployment to stop inflation (1st pic)

June 2023: Bernanke and Blanchard say the labor market will have increasing influence of over inflation, and the Fed should continue slowing the economy (2nd pic)

May 2024: Where we are now, and tech roles are still rare. The few openings that exist still receive thousands of applicants

The image shows highlighted text from the Bernanke & Blanchard paper published by Brookings, available here: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-caused-the-u-s-pandemic-era-inflation/ > To the extent that commodity prices stabilize and sectoral shortages moderate-processes that both seem well advanced as of this writing (June 2023)—the goods market component of inflation is likely to decrease in importance, and the labor market component to become more dominant. Looking forward, with labor market slack still below sustainable levels and inflation expectations modestly higher, we conclude that the Fed has to slow the economy to return inflation to target.

jmsdnns, 21 days ago to random

💰 What caused the U.S. pandemic-era inflation?

by Ben S. Bernanke and Olivier Blanchard

> Non-competitive behavior is another possibility, as the food price index includes distribution margins, and the retail food industry has become more concentrated in recent decades

That is academic 🔥 for saying greedflation was real and came from companies having too much power. Bernanke and Blanchard are two giants of economics, so it is HUGE that they concluded this.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-caused-the-u-s-pandemic-era-inflation/

jmsdnns, 24 days ago to DuckDuckGo

I know #DuckDuckGo isn't perfect, but I love what they're trying to do so much.

Let's go easy on them for whatever mistakes they make today as they work under extreme stress to get everything working again.

Airplane Sweat GIF

jmsdnns, 27 days ago to random

AI just doesnt matter next to electric vehicles, healthcare, or education

jmsdnns, 29 days ago to random

The experiment we just did at Penn to see if AIs can do homeworks for AI students concludes with everyone reassured that AIs completely fail at getting the logic right for anything complex, even with good feedback for improvements

I tried having it generate code for markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, basic language models, and perceptrons, and the AIs did an absolutely terrible job

You can see the homeworks we tested on here http://artificial-intelligence-class.org/

jmsdnns, 30 days ago to random

📜 I look forward to starting my weekend with this interview with @ProfMSinha about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, about the Reconstruction period after the Civil War

Her book, The Slave's Cause, was phenomenal and I cant wait to finish my current book so I can start this one!

https://youtu.be/4Ag-Z1dAJsQ

jmsdnns, 1 month ago to random

do people still like meetups? if so, are they still using meetup.com?

i have an idea for one and i'm not sure where to go

jmsdnns, 1 month ago to random

I feel troubled by the voice in my head telling me the best way to combat disinformation from hostile nation states is to fill the Internet with AI generated nonsense

We can unite behind a common enemy, AI generated nonsense, instead of arguing about doing our own research

Like building a haystack when you want to hide some needles

jmsdnns, 1 month ago to random

📺 Rick Beato interviewed the bass player I was raving about this morning, from the WILLOW tiny desk video

Her name is MOHINI DEY

It is rare for someone to be as talented as she is... I mean, as far as bass goes, she's right there with someone like Les Claypool. She is THAT good!

#musodon

https://youtu.be/OJTXqHxt_UU

jmsdnns, 1 month ago to random

Getting super pumped for #gimp 3! Ive been using Gimp since 1998 and I still love it.

jmsdnns, 1 month ago to random

@bitprophet have you tried opentofu? i only just noticied they've got a great website and code on github https://opentofu.org

jmsdnns, 1 month ago to random

I cant seem to figure out how to follow threads accounts, except for Joe Biden

I wanna follow ethan_mollick@threads.net

what do i do?

jmsdnns, 1 month ago to random

This is such a cool stat to release for a video game

Cant recall seeing a company do this before

jmsdnns, 1 month ago to random

That's me, hanging with Ben Franklin

jmsdnns, 1 month ago to random

> in 2020, only 268 titles sold more than 100,000 copies, and 96 percent of books sold less than 1,000 copies

https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

jmsdnns, 2 months ago to random

Id probably do whatever zach de la rocha told me to do

jmsdnns, 2 months ago to random

Lina Khan is incredible.

You can see for yourself in this week's Daily Show with Stewart.

https://www.cc.com/episodes/v02eeq/the-daily-show-april-1-2024-lina-khan-season-29-ep-25

jmsdnns, 2 months ago to random

😕😟😣😭 noooooooooooo https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead/

jmsdnns, 2 months ago to Cats

Look at my cat. Why cant I live like that?

#cats

jmsdnns, 2 months ago to random

🎸 Shower Days, by NOFX (guitar cover)

I drank a lot of coffee and then did a guitar cover for the most rippingest NOFX song

#musodon

https://youtu.be/QcDUefYqztQ?si=poop

jmsdnns, 3 months ago to random

The US national motto needs to be changed back to E Pluribus Unum

God has no place in government

jmsdnns, 3 months ago to random

Rocking my Alexander Hamiltons today

jmsdnns, 3 months ago to random

i have no idea if it's gray or grey and at this point i dgaf enough to ask

jmsdnns, 3 months ago to random

> In Manhattan, brokers have started to market debt backed by a Blackstone Inc.-owned office building at a roughly 50% discount.

> A prime office tower in Los Angeles sold in December for about 45% less than its purchase price a decade ago.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-14/real-estate-lenders-confront-falling-us-commercial-property-prices

jmsdnns, 4 months ago to random

Would people wearing Apple Vision in public spaces even notice if you pickpocket them?