Silver lining is that if if these models really can be trained more efficiently, that might mean much less demand for energy use, which has been an emissions/climate concern.
(On the other hand: Jevons paradox)
(On the other hand: Jevons paradox)
Tesla sues EU over tariffs on electric vehicles from China https://ft.com/content/178adfba-f197-4f66-a9cd-f0c04ae400b4 via
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If you're not actually trying to kill healthcare and preschool for poor kids to fund your tax cuts, this is not a great look to start with
This is the problem. I've been calling budget experts asking what programs this funding-pause language applies to - all discretionary? Medicaid/CHIP?
But that requires deciphering memo as if it were written by serious people who actually thought about and understand the law
But that requires deciphering memo as if it were written by serious people who actually thought about and understand the law
If you had any doubt whether this OMB funding freeze was illegal, this should remove it.
Medicaid is mandatory spending.
Medicaid is mandatory spending.
Maybe we should abolish Congress. They have already abdicated their constitutional duties over power of the purse & "regulat[ing] Commerce with foreign Nations" (tariffs)
If lawmakers are not going to perform their most basic constitutional functions, what are we paying them for?
If lawmakers are not going to perform their most basic constitutional functions, what are we paying them for?
Rep Tom Cole (R-OK), chair of House approps committee, says appropriations directed by Congress are “not a law”
This is an insult to people with autism, some of whom I'm related to. The nation's largest autism organization was literally founded in my grandparents' living room.
Don't scapegoat autism for clear antisemitic dog whistles.
Don't scapegoat autism for clear antisemitic dog whistles.