Exceptional people are rare: found in less than 85 of 1,000,000 people. An exceptional person is one who has extreme intelligence, conscientiousness, and emotional stability. It's not that difficult to find people who satisfy one, maybe two criteria. But finding all three is very difficult.
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Math GPT. This is a domain-specific LLM, so perhaps more trustworthy to do math than a general purpose model.
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MagicQuill is amazing. It uses generative AI to let you modify photos, but very easily. Just as interesting is the author list.
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Portland Clinic is pulling out of downtown Portland. Been there for 104 years, but all it took was a few years of Ted Wheeler's rule to make them have to move. All that tax base – gone. And neighboring shops that probably enjoyed spillover business – they'll see less revenue. And they'd better sell that building fast. When the local homeless find that it's abandoned, well... you know what's going to happen. See Gordon's Fireplace Shop.
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Here's the nasty fallout from ranked-choice voting. Remember that the whole purpose was so that the winner got support of 50% of the people? Well, they all got between 11% and 25% of voter support. So much for that. And the rules are that if you're unhappy with them, it'll take 75% of voters to oust them.
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I saw this article about how trust in scientsts took a dive during COVID. And the authors recommend humility. No, that wasn't the problem so much as many of them did crap like this. That'll lose trust.
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