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Nick Wilson

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Stony Brook University Sociology (Historical, Political, Cultural, of Science, etc.) Modernity's Corruption: https://tinyurl.com/y596p54t After Positivism: https://tinyurl.com/3nrfakrj nickwilsonsoc.org

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 2d

It was two OUP books.

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight's futzing is just a little vamp in A harmonic minor. Messed around with some resonators for fun at the end.

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Hobbyist posting for fun. Admire the work of Amon Tobin, Four Tet, The Roots, Massive Attack, Portishead, Glitch Mob, Bonobo, DJ Shadow, RTJ, among many others.

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 2d

The O's are also so much less irritating than the Yankees....

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 3d

So....AGI? 😜

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 3d

Would love to read more but the link from their changelog to the technical report is broken.

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A dynamic forecasting benchmark for LLMs. Contribute to forecastingresearch/forecastbench development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 3d

Seems like less than they're saying. It's narrow competition that depends on pre-quantified, market-analytic data. Did they test against a regression model? (Also, they say that the rankings are so unstable that they have had to put them on a 50-day delay.)

How well can large language models predict the future?

We’ve just released an updated version of ForecastBench, our LLM forecasting benchmark. Here’s what the new results reveal about the accuracy of state-of-the-art models.

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 4d

Solidarity. I somehow missed out this year too.

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 4d

MY POINT IS they seem to have had lots of practice.

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 4d

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Skill Set: Slicing the Pie | Tactical Wire

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 4d

Apropos of nothing, did you know that some "operators" call dividing a room into areas of responsibility upon entry "slicing the pie"?

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, your masochism is really going to be indexed by the kerning.

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 5d

Cool. Wasn't expecting to live in a country like this.

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 7d

Okay, okay, I'm getting conspiracy-pilled here. Given all the madness today, he's *still* not making any statement?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and has no public events on his calendar today

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 8d

have a new piece out of defense tech with nyrb!

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The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman

Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 7d

Little man wants to feel big.

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 7d

Matthew 5:44-45

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 16d

Wishful thinking, maybe, but feels like some kind of crest today. Consider:

(1) Kimmel/Sinclair folding.
(2) ICE actually *apologizing* for their agent in NYC.
(3) Hegseth pre-neutering his power-play with generals.
(4) Wheels off the Comey indictment already.

Plenty still bad out there, but...

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 16d

Still very bad, but between this and Kimmel/Sinclair, definitely feels like they're starting to have to pre-walk-back their attempted authoritarian grandstanding....to say nothing of how incompetent the Comey indictment is looking.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16d

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a short speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos.”

New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 16d

Took me a while to work out the physics and geometry at play here.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16d

Ok I’ve now completed my close read of today’s terror memo from Trump, step by step in previous posts. I think it is a momentous document, potentially as much of an acceleration of the slow civil war as Kirk’s assassination. 1/

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 17d

Figurative trash (like on a digital desktop) or literal trash (like in a kitchen bin?) Worried because implies two different states of disorder...

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 17d

Is Ben Carson in all of our hearts, all the time, thinking about agricultural tariff policy?

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 17d

Yes, but....he just stands there. What is he doing there while *she* talks about farmers? Is...he just always there, and sometimes *just* out of frame?

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 17d

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Ben Carson joins USDA as health and housing advisor

Ben Carson, a member of the first Trump administration, joined the Department of Agriculture on Wednesday as an advisor.

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