Will nobody think of those poor CEOs?

NIH staff could encrypt that data and then ask third-party volunteer orgs to archive it.

Yeah, fuck around more with the spies, that’ll end well for you.

401k are supposed to be the long game

The older you get, the shorter the game is. You need to gradually reduce the volatility of your investments, even at the cost of rate of return.

Yeah, one of my family members is a bricklayer and he can work out a bill of materials in his head based on the dimensions in an architectural plan: given these dimensions and this thickness of mortar joint, I’ll need this many bricks, this many bags of mortar, this many bags of sand, this many hours of labor, etc. It’s just addition and multiplication, but his colleagues regard him as a freak. And when he first started doing it, if you’d ask him to break down his reasoning, he’d find that difficult.

Memory can improve with training, and it’s useful in a large number of contexts. My major beef with rote memorization in schools is that it’s usually made to be excruciatingly boring. I’d say that’s the bigger problem.

Ever since learning about aphantasia I’m wondering if the lack of being able to visually store values has something to do with it.

Here’s some anecdotal evidence. Until I was 12 or 13, I could do absurdly complex arithmetical calculations in my head. My memory of it was of visualizing intermediate calculations as if they were on a screen in my head. I’d close my eyes to minimize distracting external stimuli. I’d get pocket money because my dad would get his friends to bet on whether I could correctly multiply two 7-digit phone numbers, and when I won, which I always did, he’d give the money to me. He had an old-school electromechanical calculator he’d use to check the results.

Neither of my parents and none of my many siblings had this ability.

I was able to use a similar visualization technique to memorize long passages of music and text. That stayed with me post-puberty, though again at a lesser extent. I’ve also been able to learn languages more quickly than most.

Once puberty kicked in, my ability to visualize declined significantly, though to compensate, I learned some mental arithmetics tricks that I still use now. I was able to get an MS in mathematics without much effort, since that relied on higher-level reasoning and not all that much on powerful memory or visualization. I didn’t pursue a Ph.D. due to lack of money but I think I could have gotten one (though I despise academic politics).

So I think your comment about aphantasia is at least directionally correct, at least as applied to people. But there’s little reason to assume LLMs would do things the same way a human mind does, though both might operate under some similar information-theoretic constraints that would cause convergent evolution.

Demented incompetent salesman brain, or what’s left of it.

You buy a gold fucking stupid ass card with dear leader’s picture on it and you get to skip the line?

There have been similar (non-literal) golden visas offered all over the world, mainly by poorer EU countries or the various third-tier states that make most of their foreign exchange through money-laundering.

Yes, he really is that out of touch.

I love to wish it on my worst enemies.

That entirely depends on who deeply they’ve locked themselves into a single-vendor set of services. If they used an abstraction tool to hide vendor-specific implementation detail, and were moderately smart, it’d take little besides minor config changes, redeployment and some regression testing.

Source: I’ve done it.

Or, you know, do two things at once. It’s not uneard of for a huge governmental entity to be able to do that. And it’s stupid to repaint the ceiling when you have a leaky roof.

American companies pay the tariffs

American companies pass throught he tariffs. American people pay them.

He barely passed an undergrad econ degree at Wharton. Wharton’s MBA program is well-regarded, its undergrad program was, at that time, barely selective.

No, there’s a formula. It’s just a transparently stupid one based on fallacious zero-sun thinking.

Whoever did those calculations (and it wasn’t Trump, since he’s innumerate as well as illiterate) based these crude calculations on the assumption that the US economy should have a pairwise zero current-account balance with every country in the world. That’s beyond imbecilic.

I have no clue what they’re trying to do

Treason.

Pig Boy thinks he’s Napoleon, but he’s actually dry rot fungus.

Leaving out his words, which are worthless, let’s examine his actions. Has Trump ever, even once, in the smallest of ways, done anything that has gone against Putin? This talk is as phony as a WWE beef.

Who with a working brain pays any attention to Russian talking points? They were flooding the zone with shit long before Bannon claimed credit for the idea.