29 May 2024

People are noticing emergent properties in LLMs.  I told you this would happen. The bigger the brain, the more you can expect.

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Just get rid of mail-in voting. Folks like Ron Wyden want the USPS not to consolidate their services to save money, because it may delay the counting of election ballots and some might miss the deadline. The USPS should be able to take measures to be more efficient, and if elections can't be done by mail, then lets go back to in-person voting.  We should be able to know who the winners are the same day as the election.

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Tina Kotek rails that we still can't get enough public defenders. There seems to be never enough qualified people for any job requiring skills in Oregon.

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"Culture of complaint"  OHSU's head of human resources is stepping down. But don't break out the champagne just yet – her replacement may be worse.

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