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Colin Scott

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Channel your inner Ms. Rachel


Several news pieces claiming that the drop in the US dollar is a sign of America's downfall, without acknowledging that devaluing the US dollar is *precisely Stephen Miran's (and Trump's) goal*. m.youtube.com/watch?v=lkDXJT… Not that I agree at all with Stephen Miran...

_colin_scott_'s tweet card. Yanis Varoufakis REVEALS REAL Trump Tariff Strategy

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Bannon versus the billionaires running the near entirety of the Trump administration. Bannon will lose: Out with the herrenvolk social democratic poetry of the campaign season, in with executive committee of the bourgeoisie prose of MAGA governance…

DanielDenvir's tweet image. Bannon versus the billionaires running the near entirety of the Trump administration. Bannon will lose: Out with the herrenvolk social democratic poetry of the campaign season, in with executive committee of the bourgeoisie prose of MAGA governance…

Inflationary pressure can occur well in advance of Tariffs being put into place. My wife just asked me if we should start stockpiling our (Australian) baby formula. Not a bad idea..


Insights after having a newborn child and then going back to work: Adults' need to (metaphorically) "burp it out" and have their backs patted is really not much different than babies.


Remember when Square / Clover reversed the order of the tip amounts on restaurant tablets and we all thought it was evil? Somehow the latest trick seems worse... look carefully at the number pad (apologies for the blurry photo)

_colin_scott_'s tweet image. Remember when Square / Clover reversed the order of the tip amounts on restaurant tablets and we all thought it was evil?

Somehow the latest trick seems worse... look carefully at the number pad (apologies for the blurry photo)

The CUDA ecosystem is one of Nvidia's most important moats. Would it be feasible to binary recompile to other platforms (within some reasonable degree of performance loss) (within the terms of service)?


Would consumers (or enterprise customers) be willing to pay a premium for “fair trade” GenAI? The content creators that models are trained on need compensation for their work... and copyright law seems to be wholly inadequate.


Second time in two days that a hummingbird has mistaken my red hair for a flower


Remember to register your ulock keys!

_colin_scott_'s tweet image. Remember to register your ulock keys!

Seems like Millennials are finally starting to have experiences that they can relate with Boomers about: - cursing at OPEC, - fighting for reproductive rights, - ...


Simple pleasures of academia: having worked in product groups for 4 years now, I had forgotten how satisfying it is to reword paragraphs to remove widow/orphan sentences in LaTeX.


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When I was 7, my teacher told us to write an article about “world cultures” for school over the weekend. I remembered it late on Sunday so in a panic I made up something called the "Icelandic Fish Festival", figuring said teacher wouldn’t know either way.


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An absolutely badass graph. UC Berkeley educates almost as many low income students as all of the Ivy Leagues combined.

brandonyung1's tweet image. An absolutely badass graph. UC Berkeley educates almost as many low income students as all of the Ivy Leagues combined.

Someone should build a plugin to automatically find the timestamp in the Youtube video where the thumbnail is taken from, so that we all collectively stop spending so much time fast-forwarding to figure out the context for the clickbait thumbnails


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