This is interesting, I figured since parochial that Kentucky had many political powerful families.

But if he can win a governorship in deep red Kentucky, that says a lot about him.

idk, I think it says more about the people of the State. CBOB indicates he focuses on local issues, unlike Newsom, I think people want that in a gov.

Kentucky is mired in parochial loyalties going back to civil war and its reaction to being Union, but still faced martial law and reconstruction oppression, turning it Democrat for a century or more. Kentucky from the looks of how it votes seems to be very parochial for this reason.

Interesting how reading a few US civil war books helps you understand todays US political landscape.

Was the initial Social Security actually sustainable? Why do they need adjustments and increases?

IMO the US government just sees it as another revenue stream with a cost in the future, and basically consumes it. Then has to pay interest on that revenue when it pays it back in the future.

Was this ever a good plan? If the US didn't have this and Medicare, would the US even be in an unsustainable debt spiral?

Long term retirement with government assistance is great, but did FDR etal create an unsustainable system? Yes, I think they did.

NOTHING liberal policies compare to the destruction wrought on this country by conservatives and their nihilism.

idk the current debt is mostly social welfare spending-related.

Isn't that a liberal policy? Wasn't this created by FDR? But its gotten out of hand.

And you cant admit the score because you spent so long carrying water for the party that drove us off the cliff.

Someone thinking one party drove the US off the cliff tells me who is carrying water.

This is more transparent than an administration getting posts deleted on social media sites, and silencing scientists, or government official plotting with journalists.

Nothing wrong with the government trying to counter some narrative that is in the public domain, at least you know its the government.

I am really surprised that Lumpers that would be influenced by journalist given access to people in the government without saying they were, are concerned about an explicit government outlet of information.

Wild.

"Religious zealots (and religious cons) have been predicting 'the downfall of humanity' for as long as civilization has been around."
So do a lot of leftists and environmentalists. They haven't been at it for as long as the religious zealots but that's their prediction as well.
Not a day goes by with reading "American is Finished!!!"
Doom and gloom is a business.
#34 | POSTED BY EBERLY

People have always littered so who cares, but its the number of people littering that matters not that someone littered.

It's never about the signal, but the strength of the signal or trend. More and more people are seeing various and serious problems as time goes forward.

You can't claim the unsustainable debt has no end. There were naysayers back in the 70s, called crackpots. But clearly while they couldn't predict the date of the demise of the dollar and the US, its coming, and not to prepare for it would be a historical mistake.

Its why the Dutch moved their gold, crisis preparedness.

This just another way of saying you compressed the algorithm after a data center did all the heavy lifting, right?
#25 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-09-20 09:04 PM | Reply

No.
#33 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG
Its called transfer learning, and the biggest version of RNFM so far is training on UH Carya Cluster which is very powerful but definitely not data center scale.

#34 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Somewhat confusing. You describe distilling in #22, then call it transfer learning which is different, typically a little model size increase, distillation is part of the techniques use to compress and optimize models. Similar processes different inputs.

This is your datacenter -> near edge (1st tier)-> far edge pipeline (2nd tier).

Typically you start with a large model distill it, the use the distillation to create similar or transfer models from the "teacher".

Its fair to call Carya Cluster is a data center and distillation as compression.

While recursive self-improvement trapped inside a closed silicon loop inevitably plateaus, bringing humans into the loop changes the equation. Human-AI collaboration injects outside perspective, physical agency, and unstructured intuition into the system, directly tackling the core bottlenecks.

At a theoretical level all of this takes time to happen. Think of how long it takes a human to accomplish what it knows/learns. It requires feedback and often alot of it over a long period of time. Continual learning systems are very prone catastrophic forgetting, there's an architectural issue that needs to be addressed for this to be corrected. The problem currently is we don't understand how LLMS do what they do. How they compress information, and how the decompression occurs we just know its efficient.

You mean like the effect of Pres Trump's whimsical war against Iran?

No the purpose of Trumps ware is different than Ukraines its not complicated by your biases.

For instance Churchill kept bombing Berlin, civilian bombing, hence a war crime no? Hitler (Putin) refused to be baited. He didn't want to bomb London or England.

But Churchill kept bombing Berlin, until Hitler issued a final warning. Churchill didn't stop. Then Hitler launched bombs on London a small campaign as not enough planes since bombing cities had never been part of the plans. But ever since the propaganda lie gets told that Germany attacked England and even that it wanted to invade.
It was in this way Churchill to escalated the war.

Commuting to Mountain View. I believe there's a bus that will take me most of the way. Morgan Hill looks nice.
#13 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

If working for G the Gbus system is wonderful. Get a place near a GBus stop, we have one in Mogran Hill I used to commute wondeful. But getting to the campus from CalTrain is funky, reverse CalTrain commute from SFO is pretty interesting idea.

Apple and Facebook both have buses, but its not as developed.

Redwood city has wonderful weather, and not a bad commute, there are newer town homes east of 101, all the way to Foster City there are townhomes/condos. But they have questionable soil should we get the big one.

There's been alot of condo development in SantaClara (city) All the little downtowns near trainstations need to be/will be developing homes per State regulations, I suspect you'll find alot of condo buildings being built within 1/2mile of these stations. That might give you some ideas.

Yea avoid east bay commute, 237, dumbarton can be a disaster. The Pen is just really expensive.

If you are looking in Morgan Hill (nice area), it's down about -20% -28%.

This is where I live. From 2006? This isn't true at all. Its up 30% or more.

I would doubt your whole post because of this.

Has he found that exit ramp yet?
#6 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Was there ever one?

Now there is a global energy crisis because of Pres Trump.

And Ukraine vs Russia ....

Going after Diesel refineries.

The purpose is to make the world suffer, and help Democrats in the mid terms,

Ukraine wants more than it's getting from Trump.

People born into wealth also stay there, generally.
#13 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

This is mostly false. 3 generations and they are back to middle class. You only know of the exceptions. You have no idea what motivates people do you?

Subliberal is a coconut-headed halfwit soapboxing from the peanut gallery.
#17 | POSTED BY PUMPKINHEAD

If you had any self awareness you'd understand everyone here fits that description, including yourself.

The system is for anyone to get rich if they apply themselves.

If there is once common trait it would be perseverance, but its not a guarantee.
The difference between GDP's is the aggregate discipline of its population.
In this way "applying oneself" can be seen as the system to get out of the quicksand of poverty.
If you lived in a poor country, leave. Thats what the smart African and Muslims are doing ... leaving poverty and poor governance.

People born into poverty generally stay there, at no fault of their own.

Smart industrious people in poverty will get out of poverty. What keeps people in poverty is bad governance; lack of trust, high crime, and no rule of law, who would invest? If your "shop" is going to constantly get burglarized, why would you invest your time? Thats why I find it funny "lumpers" support more crime. You may say you don't but you vote against the victim consistently. Just the idea of "raising" the felony dollar figure caused all sorts of crime and distortions, CA Lumpers voted for more crime, to help the criminals. You wanna help poor people, fight crime, destroy criminality.

Christianity is only about going heaven.

No its not, it's about atonement for sins and a deep belief in the father and the holy trinity. Beyond that its about living out the teachings.

I am not even religious and I understand that.

#1

So will Kamala, it's two letters after all

Putin is running out of easy money to finance the war and keep the Kremlin elite loyal, so Moscow is reaching for assets it never created.

Sounds like Ro Khanna.

That sound you hear is history rhyming.

Rhyming? you can't even hold a beat ....

The next logical step will be the mass arrests of the press and political opponents.

Thats what the rightwingers said too.

"Adolf Hitler restricted freedom of the press in Germany primarily through the Reichstag Fire Decree issued on February 28, 1933, and later formalized via laws like the Editors Law (Schriftleitergesetz) on October 4, 1933.
~ Corky

You're one President too late, as usual.

Courts have ruled that official presidential communication spaces"such as government-operated public social media accounts or official press access areas"can be designated public forums where the President cannot exclude individuals or silence critics based on their viewpoints

Interesting ...

Almost as bad as 442 White House credentials pulled.

Rep Khanna has shown a focused drive to help those who have been abused in the Epstein affair.

Why don't those that have been abused (who ever they are), just help themselves? Name names, sue the living day lights out of them?

I read they're serious zbout naming names if nothing happens.... well just name names .... what are you waiting for?

Khanna is an ambulance chaser BTW .. this guy is horrible.

If you can't beat someone who attempted a fascist coup then you don't deserve another shot.
To even entertain the idea is pure hubris and delusion.
#19 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Well that is the West Coast Dems for you.

I'm thinking Mark Kelly might end up jumping in for '28.

Tell me you haven't seen his dog mauling a seal at the beach without telling me.