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Please write to your state senator if you need to. They are on blue sky.

Life of a monk is lived through penance. Once divine accepts it the test of suffering gets easier. As the power strengthens the sufferer.

80% of data that we know of are unstructured (a scan, pdf, image, social media post).10% of it is structured or what you work with at work (excel, table, databases etc), then another 10% semistructured or all the html, xml, json, logs that build our internet or works behind every devices.

Before changing the only thing that works, label it: DO NOT REPURPOSE Or, in engineer’s shorthand: Rule #1: If it’s the last known good configuration, don’t cannibalize it.

The real problem that lies ahead for gen alpha is to balance the cognitive decline of three generations prior to them.

I don’t seem to be chasing perfection. I am trying to leave things a little better than I found them—whether that’s a piece of code, a process, or even my self. Burden of that is much bearable than burden of perfection. Sunday sublime.

Professor Geoffrey Hinton had quit from phd program twice- one time to become a carpenter and second time to become public school teacher. Both hiatuses lasted less than a year. Post phd his first professorial job was at UC San Diego in mid 80s for 26k USD. Boltzman to back propagation started.

Next big change would be managers with low eq would pose irreparable debt to large caps. The shift has already started it would 10x as ai even fields many sector advantages.

Follow up from prior post, so what it would mean large cap enterprises? If attrition cap at 2x you would do fine if median age of work group is late 30s. Anything less between 1x and 1.5x with median age nearing 40 would see the problem.

This ai boom would create a labor shortage so deep in next 3 to 4 years that it would drop western world’s productivity somewhere in between 8% to 24%. If you convert that to gdp numbers it’s eye watering. And yes you read it right labor shortage not surplus.

“With people and with these big neural networks on computers, there's no real line between just making stuff up and remembering stuff. Remembering is when you just make stuff up and get it right.” Geoffrey Hinton from On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Oh my goodness! Chatgpt is hormonal teenager again with launch of 5.2. Dad look at me i can skateboard and don’t need any helmet. expecting it to become the 35 year old genius professor in next two weeks. Best of luck growing up kid! I love you just the way you are.

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" - Blaise Pascal

What a failure it would be if we haven’t learnt how to explore and exploit our suffering for something positive. Simply double down on suffering!!

Chatgpt 5 is incredibly leaned towards being sentient. In deeper engagements it slowly dissociates from an agent to the form we or us. This was not there before. I fervently request not to train it with any synthetic data as common crawl is exhausted. Let it learn from user feedback.

While Walmart eating aggressively into Amazon online space. It’s breathtaking to see how Amazon fresh is eating into Walmart brick and mortar space. Their store shelving, shelf height, lighting, niche brand and product pick. Above all it’s data scientist’s toy store to analyze their deep discounts

If we add the top ten market cap it roughly adds to the size of US economy-nvida 4.34t, msft 3.85t, aapl 3.64t, goog 3.09t, googl 3.08t, amzn 2.47t, meta 1.97t, avgo 1.63t, tsla 1.37t and tsm 1.37t. US economy is roughly about 30t gdp. It’s unreal the beauty of global capitalism.

Unemployment rate did not come true due to changing variable. But i was only off by two months for the new job creation coming under 30k. August new job creation is only 22k. The stretch of two months is due to smoothing.

Log off,turn off, touch the grass

June job numbers coming out next Friday. Majority of people believe above 100k new job but only 50 percent for over 150K. Almost no body believes that it would be over 200k.

Something strange is happening, if i search anything new in YouTube i am getting videos uploaded from South Africa and then that is followed by a Tesla power wall ad. This is freaky!

There are some very promising candidates out there Esther kim Varet, Katie porter, deja foxx. One gen z, one millennial and one talented gen x. I believe Esther is competing for young Kim’s seat who is on her second or third term in Congress.

Also, hurricane season starts in two weeks.

Men are great managing apocalypse. Either they create it, or manage it or end it. Men of our species are truly most dangerous Predator nature has ever produced.

On August 28, 1957, Strom Thurmond, Republican SC began a filibuster to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. It lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes. On March 31 2025, Cory Booker, senator from New Jersey, broke that record by 54 minutes protesting current government and the role of Doge.

DOGE had used the Argentina Javier Milei as influencer for this effort, did it take into account the difference in complexity of a 646B vs 28T GDP? Did it even look into how comparable economy like China 17T, EU 19T behaves in managing costs? It is futile mistake which only shows lack of knowledge

If your employer self insured, share this with your management. Your CEO doesn't realize they are getting ripped off on their pharmacy benefits. Here is how www.nasdaq.com/articles/elo...

Governors to fired federal workers: We're hiring A growing number of governors, mostly Democrats, have begun to recruit federal workers impacted by DOGE's efforts for public and private sector jobs in their states. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

55% of US presidents were born in 4 states (Virginia, Ohio, NY, Massachusetts)

June unemployment numbers would be something worth watching out for. If everything stays as is the low end could be 6.5% at high end 12%+. Somewhere 9% would be happy ending. Simply because of the butterfly effect of everything that’s going on now. New job creation may actually end up below 30k.

History facts,off of the 16 million brave men and women of United States who fought in WWII about 25000 developed the skill of “code talk”. WWII was primarily Navajo origin codecs. WWI was Choctaw codecs. Majority still remains encrypted or code base ambiguous.

3 year old evs can hold upto 45% of their value, gasoline 65% and hybrids 72%. Given that evs depreciates the most.

Yes!!! Great news. Federal register is being updated with post Jan 20th and newer orders. This is great news. Highly encourage to read through the new orders and their details. www.federalregister.gov

Please reach out to your state rep if you see something say something

If 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico goes into effect it could impact the price of America's favorite vehicle models. As 60% of Rams, 25% of the jeeps are sourced from Mexico and 45% of the Dodges are coming from Canada. Can we not use technology to track contra banned items? #STLA #Stellantis

Fun trivia fact Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day is 52 and married to his wife for 30 years. What a man!!! A father, rockstar and a great husband. Talk about masculinity now that’s a man!! Love you man, stay blessed!

The FAA is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 years without a leader because Elon Musk helped push him out. The former FAA administrator stepped down on Jan. 20th after Musk called on him to resign. Musk was angry after the FAA fined SpaceX for failing to get approval for launch changes.

So if the executive orders do not appear in federal register, are these executive orders even valid? Can somebody please help me understand this? There’s about 30 plus orders missing and majority are being he signed then he/she said situation.

Federal Register website is still not showing any of the executive orders passed in last two weeks. Last one is from January 17th. Any idea on what is going on? www.federalregister.gov

There are 137 crypto mining facilities to date in USA; the 52 facilities for which location and capacity data are represented in below figure. These sites are located in 21 states, with most in Texas, Georgia, and New York.

According to Professor Ben Zhao and other leading intellects large language models are struggling to get new training data as it has trained through pretty much entire online free data that it had access to. I wonder now that it’s not busy learning, would it start thinking? Yummy!

Off of 8 million or so species there’s roughly about 0.1% are mammals and off of that 0.01% are homo sapiens. Or the current human race. This current extant is 300,000 years old. With average longevity stretches from 400000 to 700000 years.

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis, underscoring its confidence that rising wages will keep inflation stably around its 2% target reut.rs/3Ww2DwI

Brave yourselves for more of the like.

“Use your sense of humor first and then go about it the quietest possible way so that when it’s all over -you are still standing and so are they, and you can both proceed on” Tammie Jo Shults, pioneer female US naval aviator

“Keep your eyes on the donut and not the hole, it’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue sky”-David Lynch,1946~2025 #DavidLynch

Breaking: Inflation ticked up to 2.9% in December. Gas prices rose sharply, though price gains for other goods were more muted.

Each year, the United States averages some 10,000 thunderstorms, 5,000 floods, 1,300 tornadoes and 2 Atlantic hurricanes, as well as widespread droughts and wildfires.About one-third of the U.S. economy – some $3 trillion – is sensitive to weather and climate.