Kevin McPherson
@thekevinmcp
AI + ML engineer. Physics & economics enthusiast. Fascinated by learning and writing. Wonder is all around me!
Starting today, any task that I delegate to AI, I'm going to capture in my ai-learnings-log. I'll include a brief description of what I did, what the AI's plan was, and any alternative plans it had. I'll also include the platform I used AI in (i.e., Warp, ChatGPT interface,…
He also took away a really satisfying part of hitting a shot: the swoosh!
Relationships (intimate, platonic) are pretty easy when you meet each other with humility and compassion.
“Being reasonable is about sound intellectual methods – remaining calm, taking nothing personally, using probabilities, facing hypotheticals head-on, spurning Social Desirability Bias, and so on.” betonit.ai/p/silence-is-s…
Lane is good.
Getting good at anything is worth it It's almost never a choice between mastering x or mastering y. It's mastering something or mastering nothing (scrolling tiktok (same thing))
Love when this happens. I am pretty good (if I do say so myself 😉) at finding used books signed by the author. The best one was a copy of Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem: “For Marli, With love from a Lethem” - found in Kansas City, Missouri
Was at a used bookstore today and found this postcard from 31 years ago inside a book
This is a cynical viewpoint. I'm happy to report I left crippling poverty and helped lift family members out of it, too.
I want to remind you again today, that if you were born into a poor family, you can NEVER escape poverty until the day you die. You will be struggling, with the hope that you would. It never happens.
"We Can Terraform the American West" - highly underrated blog post by @CJHandmer (as a Nevadan, I think this is a great proposal) caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/we-…
I won’t tell anyone I’ve won the lottery, but there will be signs
getting good sentence-makers out of billions of years of "find food and reproduce" requires a consciousness-inducing complexity that getting good sentence-makers out of "here's every sentence ever written" doesn't
We’ve defended higher ed from both government overreach and ideological litmus tests. But now academia’s biggest guild says diversity of thought itself is “anathema“ denying even the existence of the most basic and obvious problem in higher education. Admitting a lack of…
Theory: most of the last two decades of technology (online, social media related) advancements have been detracting from collective human intelligence.
I mean, objectively, this is good. Even if it’s internet clickbait
Substack has become the center of my intellectual life these past 2 months (surprisingly).
Fukuyama explains why AI is not going to solve most of our problems. In the material world, intelligence is not the bottleneck
Harvard is a top-5 university in the world. It’s “one of the most difficult schools to gain admission to…but once they get in, many of its students skip class and fail to do the reading.” “When they do show up for class, they are focused on their devices, and are reluctant to…
I’m very sympathetic to the idea that academic science and engineering is generally not friendly to risk taking. Thus many scientists and engineers are instead starting companies rather than being part of academia.
A cocktail of antacids?
Reminder that tariffs have caused unambiguous increases in US retail prices. Anyone in the Trump admin who claims otherwise is lying to you.
Tariffs continue to show up in prices: • Imported goods: 6.5% above pre-tariff trends • Domestic goods: 4.5% above Updated charts and data available at pricinglab.org/tariff-tracker
lol got served this ad on Reddit. It’s a bit unflattering that the student is building something with blocks. It def doesn’t look “rigorous”
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