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Greg Olsen
@gtotango.bsky.social
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Former cartographer, ballroom dance pro and tanguero, cyber security professional. Volunteers in the USCG Auxiliary. PhD in Politics, University of Leicester. Expertise in MOOTW.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 6h
Saw it on sale and couldn’t resist the impulse buy. Origins of miniature wargaming
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 7h
Clementine has a pretty strong camouflage game with her new “boks”
Orange cat in a cardboard box looking out the window
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 8h
two men are sitting at a table talking to each other
ALT: two men are sitting at a table talking to each other
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 1d
Maybe they meant:
three cats are dancing together on a stage in a musical .
Alt: three cats are dancing together on a stage in the musical Cats.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 1d
That sky is awfully blue for Pasadena. I guess the recent weather cleared out the smog.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 1d
I just came upon a great quote in Le Carre’s novel Call for the Dead: “Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind in the garage.” 😂 So true.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 2d
The insurance companies will just pay to make the problem go away. He’ll probably get $100k out of the bar’s insurer and another from the security contractor’s insurance.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 2d
Thuggish is the plaintiff in a case my wife is defending. The guy starts a bar fight, gets hurt and sues the bar because the security guard couldn’t stop the fight and therefore the bar is negligent. 🙄
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 2d
My species is felis squishmallow and I love to eat crunchies, dental treats, and attack dad’s feet.
Fat orange cat
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 2d
A guy I know who was an ADA told me that they used to play a “Mother Teresa game” in the office. What can we indict her for? When the entire edifice rests on prosecutorial discretion, the libertarians say, you have too many laws.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 3d
I am taking a class in AI and when the instructor put up this graphic of the AI Hierarchy of Needs, my first thought was, "Abraham Maslow is rolling in his grave."
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 3d
I didn't have this experience, but I did my PhD in the UK. The application was based on a research proposal and whether they had supervision for me.

But my daughter's college undergraduate applications in the US were tremendously traumatic for her last year.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 3d
They still teach this way in high school, JuCo, and college intro writing classes in California.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 4d
Oh.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 4d
What is unauthorized partial nudity in a cat that doesn’t wear clothing except a calmer collar and a regular collar.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 5d
The main problem I had was that it was obviously based on a pretrained chatbot with the bottom layers retained on the course material and it behaved in an obsequious manner like the common chatbots.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 5d
In a way. I had obviously been trained on the course material then it conducted a conversation with me about how I did the final project and quizzed me on various concepts. It then generated a report on the concepts I appeared weak on.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 5d
I think that the analogy won’t likely hold. France is way less committed to intervention in Francophone Africa, for example.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 5d
There is an assumption that the dynamics are directly analogous to the Cold War where the developing world sought out security patrons and played one off against another to get the best deal.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 5d
Clementine is the aloof orangey but for some reason she wants to cuddle afternoons on the sofa and nowhere else.
Orange cat cuddling on the sofa with her owner.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 5d
Why I flip out when medical providers send stuff covered by HIPAA over text. They didn’t want to use cumbersome encrypted email so they just send it in an SMS message as if it secure.🤦‍♂️
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 5d
🤯 Jimmy looks so healthy after such a precarious start.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 5d
This is the great flaw in the utopian fantasies. If the productivity gains came to pass, there would be mass white collar unemployment which would in turn lead to confiscatory taxation. That would crush any incentives for technological innovation. The numbers for UBI never pencil out.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 5d
In a Coursera class I am taking right now, one of the tasks was interacting with an AI tutor. It wasn't bad, and was a major improvement over peer interactions in a discussion board. However, it really wasn't a substitute for a human tutor.
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Greg Olsen @gtotango.bsky.social · 5d
Yes. The order support person was not a person at all but an obsequious AI. It was able to get my refund without all the "I have to escalate this..." nonsense.