Meta-comment: I've seen a lot of people referring to the Department of Education as "DOE", which I thought was unambiguously the Department of Energy. Apparently, the Department of Education refers to itself as "ED" on its website, https://ed.gov/.

This is not a place for smart people

It's called "getting Munched".

You can't just blame 18-26 year-olds. This was a failure across all age groups. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/interactive-how-key-groups-of-americans-voted-in-2024-according-to-ap-votecast

The thing that people don't understand yet is that LLMs are "yes men".

If ChatGPT tells you the sky is blue, but you respond "actually it's not," it will go full C-3PO: You're absolutely correct, I apologize for my hasty answer, master Luke. The sky is in fact green.

Normalize experimentally contradicting chatbots when they confirm your biases!

I don't think he deserves that much credit

Shakespeare wasn't one person, he was actually a collection of Bibles writing under a pseudonym

I'm always confused by these kinds of assessments people make with some unrealistic test. Lumber for building a house doesn't need to withstand bites from a human jaw!

Years ago, Tesla advertised solar shingles that could withstand a bowling ball being dropped on them. Why?! Hail is a thing, but bowling balls don't fall from the sky.

Extending this concept, let's say I want to sell you a new motorcycle I invented. I won't demonstrate how well it rides or how fast it accelerates, but I will show you how deep I can submerge it underwater before the gas tank crumples — 4000 ft! Let's see Harley beat that.

It is now safe to turn off your computer

I propose a new, more threatening kind of control flow.

do {
  /* something */
} or else {
  /* you don't want to find out */
}

The renewed focus on reliability is motivated by emerging applications. Imagine a wireless factory robot in a situation where a worker suddenly steps in front of it and the robot needs to make an immediate decision.

This example is a real WTF. I really hope nobody is planning on building safety-critical real-time systems on top of WiFi!

Wow, this is a wake up call. I have been wasting my time on this .bashrc file.