24 February 2025

Online shopping has changed in-store shopping. It's a bummer when you can't find exactly what you are looking for. It's a trade-off to go online, however. And once you've made your online shopping purchase, you'll be getting emails from the store forever.

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The second Terrence Tao/3Blue-1Brown video is out. Probably the finest math visualizations you'll see.

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AI-designed chips work much better, but humans can't understand them. Yeah, I was afraid of that. The Singularity won't be pretty.

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What's behind the exodus of Chinese scientists? They come. They train. They leave.

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Portland's high homicide rate. The new normal, eh? This is the main reason I don't venture into downtown Portland.

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Oregon's CAT is too much. Now they're considering exemptions for healthcare companies and grocery stores and restaurants. Pretty soon, it'll be worthless as a tax.  Just a pain in the ass for the few remaining business, and it won't amount to anything, because all the major companies are exempted. Nike won't be affected as much because comparative little of its sales are in Oregon. Same with Intel.

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