Alyssa Vance
@alyssavance.bsky.social
Senior Data Scientist, Blue Rose Research. Futurist, neophile, machine explorer. [email protected]
I now have access to OpenAI's new o1-pro model, send me math or stats problems you'd like to test
December 5, 2024 at 7:43 PM
I now have access to OpenAI's new o1-pro model, send me math or stats problems you'd like to test
"Oh, my dear Kepler," says Galileo, "how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal Professor of Philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, which he pertinaciously refuses to do..."
December 1, 2024 at 7:43 PM
"Oh, my dear Kepler," says Galileo, "how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal Professor of Philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, which he pertinaciously refuses to do..."
- With vacancies, the US House will now be 217 R - 215 D, so bills can only pass with unanimous Republican agreement (zero defections), or with Dem support
- Current bill to fund the US government expires on Dec 20
- Debt ceiling suspension expires on Jan 1
- Good Luck, Have Fun
- Current bill to fund the US government expires on Dec 20
- Debt ceiling suspension expires on Jan 1
- Good Luck, Have Fun
November 27, 2024 at 10:21 PM
- With vacancies, the US House will now be 217 R - 215 D, so bills can only pass with unanimous Republican agreement (zero defections), or with Dem support
- Current bill to fund the US government expires on Dec 20
- Debt ceiling suspension expires on Jan 1
- Good Luck, Have Fun
- Current bill to fund the US government expires on Dec 20
- Debt ceiling suspension expires on Jan 1
- Good Luck, Have Fun
There are reasons to support this but it would help Republicans a lot
November 25, 2024 at 5:37 PM
There are reasons to support this but it would help Republicans a lot
Three years out, before I joined Blue Rose, I successfully predicted 48/50 states and 1/2 candidates :)
(NM remained blue despite the Dem collapse with Latinos and Rs winning the popular vote, which is interesting! NM is 50% Latino)
(NM remained blue despite the Dem collapse with Latinos and Rs winning the popular vote, which is interesting! NM is 50% Latino)
November 25, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Three years out, before I joined Blue Rose, I successfully predicted 48/50 states and 1/2 candidates :)
(NM remained blue despite the Dem collapse with Latinos and Rs winning the popular vote, which is interesting! NM is 50% Latino)
(NM remained blue despite the Dem collapse with Latinos and Rs winning the popular vote, which is interesting! NM is 50% Latino)
"Biological sex is real" is 100% true - if it weren't real, it wouldn't need to be reverse engineered! But ~80% of people who say this follow it with an implicit (or explicit) "and therefore, trans people all need to be sent to the camps"
November 24, 2024 at 2:51 PM
"Biological sex is real" is 100% true - if it weren't real, it wouldn't need to be reverse engineered! But ~80% of people who say this follow it with an implicit (or explicit) "and therefore, trans people all need to be sent to the camps"
Worth noticing that the Biden admin tried really, really hard to appoint non-white judges, but non-white voters cared more about inflation, immigration, and crime, and swung massively to the right
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of federal judges appointed by Joe Biden - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
November 24, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Worth noticing that the Biden admin tried really, really hard to appoint non-white judges, but non-white voters cared more about inflation, immigration, and crime, and swung massively to the right
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Musk Twitter doesn't represent public opinion any more than Woke Twitter did. Searching for fairly neutral terms on "Latest", to get a random sample, the ratio of right-wing to left-wing posts is like 5-10:1. Trump won the popular vote by ~1.03:1.
November 24, 2024 at 1:35 AM
Musk Twitter doesn't represent public opinion any more than Woke Twitter did. Searching for fairly neutral terms on "Latest", to get a random sample, the ratio of right-wing to left-wing posts is like 5-10:1. Trump won the popular vote by ~1.03:1.
Quick reminder that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has been in elected office since before President Obama was born, and would be older than Elvis if Elvis were still alive (seriously, look it up!). His current Senate term ends in 2028.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_G...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_G...
Chuck Grassley - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
November 24, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Quick reminder that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has been in elected office since before President Obama was born, and would be older than Elvis if Elvis were still alive (seriously, look it up!). His current Senate term ends in 2028.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_G...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_G...
What is your reason for switching to Bluesky?
November 19, 2024 at 3:17 PM
What is your reason for switching to Bluesky?
What is the most effective organization that you have personal knowledge of?
November 17, 2024 at 2:53 AM
What is the most effective organization that you have personal knowledge of?
Hi! Any good, intellectually engaging follow recommendations that are not mainly politics-posting? I'm glad for the Twitter alternative, but do not need more politics-posting. Thank you :)
November 17, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Hi! Any good, intellectually engaging follow recommendations that are not mainly politics-posting? I'm glad for the Twitter alternative, but do not need more politics-posting. Thank you :)
What is the most effective organization that you have personal knowledge of?
February 9, 2024 at 3:50 AM
What is the most effective organization that you have personal knowledge of?
What percentage of transphobes who talk about "basic biology" would be able to tell you what this diagram means?
January 31, 2024 at 11:11 PM
What percentage of transphobes who talk about "basic biology" would be able to tell you what this diagram means?
January 30, 2024 at 7:47 PM
What's your favorite statistical distribution? Mine is log-normal, it's what you get when you have many small factors that are multiplicative instead of additive :)
January 30, 2024 at 4:22 PM
What's your favorite statistical distribution? Mine is log-normal, it's what you get when you have many small factors that are multiplicative instead of additive :)
Should I leave Twitter, and do all my posting on Bluesky or blogs? I like having an audience of cool people there, but it seems to be jumping the shark with the swarms of Nazi idiots
January 30, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Should I leave Twitter, and do all my posting on Bluesky or blogs? I like having an audience of cool people there, but it seems to be jumping the shark with the swarms of Nazi idiots
There are ~two scenarios for a second Trump term
1) like Trump's first term, he's an incompetent dick, but he can't get much done and life is mostly normal
2) he goes full fash, at which point half the US economy leaves because the top firms are full of immigrants, liberals, atheists and gays
1) like Trump's first term, he's an incompetent dick, but he can't get much done and life is mostly normal
2) he goes full fash, at which point half the US economy leaves because the top firms are full of immigrants, liberals, atheists and gays
January 28, 2024 at 2:53 PM
There are ~two scenarios for a second Trump term
1) like Trump's first term, he's an incompetent dick, but he can't get much done and life is mostly normal
2) he goes full fash, at which point half the US economy leaves because the top firms are full of immigrants, liberals, atheists and gays
1) like Trump's first term, he's an incompetent dick, but he can't get much done and life is mostly normal
2) he goes full fash, at which point half the US economy leaves because the top firms are full of immigrants, liberals, atheists and gays
My flying a plane as a teenager
January 7, 2024 at 9:00 PM
My flying a plane as a teenager
manifold.love and Bluesky have the most trans userbases I have ever seen
October 29, 2023 at 2:15 PM
manifold.love and Bluesky have the most trans userbases I have ever seen
I wish there was somewhere on Earth I could move to where trans people weren't the universally despised Public Enemy #1 😓
www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/u...
www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/u...
Harsh penalties approved for Florida state college employees who use restrooms that don't correspond...
Florida education officials on Wednesday unanimously approved harsher penalties against state college employees who violate a new law barring them and students from using restrooms or changing facilit...
www.cnn.com
October 2, 2023 at 6:22 PM
I wish there was somewhere on Earth I could move to where trans people weren't the universally despised Public Enemy #1 😓
www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/u...
www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/u...
September 23, 2023 at 6:35 PM
So how did Bluesky come to be the app for trans people and lefties
(Serious question, I actually don't know!)
(Serious question, I actually don't know!)
September 23, 2023 at 3:02 AM
So how did Bluesky come to be the app for trans people and lefties
(Serious question, I actually don't know!)
(Serious question, I actually don't know!)