Working to make American transportation faster, cheaper, more reliable, and less safe | Econ & CS @UChicago | Read my blog! | More tweets at @authdevelopment
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I am very excited to announce (at the last minute, as per usual) that Lib Development is going on tour! (read: i am going on a trip to see the west coast)
If any of you are in the following places and available on the following dates to hang out, shoot me a dm! I’d like to actually meet some of you lol
San Diego: 6/15-6/16
Los Angeles: 6/17-6/18
San Francisco: 6/19-6/22
Seattle: 6/23-6/24
Vancouver: 6/25
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Uh
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May 15
UChicago seniors: We're hiring software engineers.
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> You're at least 200x more likely to die in a helicopter than a commercial jet
Okay, so still around 10x than driving? That seems very reasonable lmao, commercial aviation is so absurdly safe it’s safer than your living room
Helicopters are a fundamentally flawed design
The moment you even slightly hit or lose the tail rotor the whole thing spins out of control and it's a flying coffin
You're at least 200x more likely to die in a helicopter than a commercial jet
I don't go in them and I think they should be replaced by multirotor drone type vehicles which are much much safer
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Not sure if anyone else has noticed but during the month of May the CTA added around 3.75 miles of net slow zones
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You guys do know there’s a word for “fat” in french and it’s not “fat”, right?
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jaw dropping lmao
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WOWWWW
Jun 13
we now have our answer to how mad amazon was left after compute negotiations with anthropic
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They should make a chicago with a nonzero number of public trash cans
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I guess all of politics twitter, left and right, is “trump world”. fair.
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am i going to be in san francisco on the fucking vibecamp weekend
i am, arent i
Jun 13
still on the fence about vibecamp. at this point the main issue is i’m nervous i won’t be able to physically handle the logistics. i haven’t flown in 3 years. my diet remains very annoyingly restrictive in a way that makes it hard to be confident i’ll be able to get enough to eat in unfamiliar places (this is a large part of why i haven’t flown in 3 years). i always sleep like complete shit at vibecamp and i’m way more sensitive to sleep deprivation than i used to be
on the other hand i’ve been isolated from nearly all social contact for way too long. i need to be around people i can talk to. and things are moving so fast now that god knows what anything will be like a year from now. i feel like i need to be plugged into the network in a way i can’t get online
idk how to weigh these at all. help?
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When I travelled to Houston from Chicago 2 years ago and then travelled across the city on mass transit, I noticed 2 things:
1) how much safer I felt on Houston Metro vs the CTA
2) how nonwhite Houston Metro’s ridership was
So, uh, respectfully, swing and a miss there
Jun 12
Some (not all) of the anxiety about transit crime that I see on Twitter makes sense to me, but some reflects lack of experience with navigating urban space. And some people “feel unsafe” around Black people or people speaking other languages … 3/
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But meaningfully, I suspect that the people who are complaining about “crime” are actually just complaining about bad behavior. Hence the recent discourse shift towards “public order”, because crime statistics clearly don’t refer to the things people are complaining about
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But like, there are solutions to this, even if in the short term they cause delays to service (just stopping and calling the police on people, just as a business would) and I think most people would prefer that.
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Lib Development (In SF 6/19-6/22, say hi!) retweeted
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Like so many other things in this administration, I am very aware that this is very bad for the economy, a catastrophic precedent, etc etc, but having hit several “safety” blocks on literally the most innocuous prompts ever to be asked I have literally no object level sympathy
Jun 13
As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models.
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Every time I see one of these I can’t help but think this case should have been made at any point in time before people got mad enough at their governance to hire “Institution Wreckers, Inc”.
*Now*, the thing to do is point to the falling outputs of the research to catastrophize
This is the true legacy of DOGE - the utter decimation of medical research.
MAGA idiots will try to tell you this is just cutting DEI programs. Keep in mind DOGE was filled with such idiots they killed physics grants that mentioned 'polarization' (of light) because of "DEI".
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I really hope that people have receipts on what exactly it is that we stopped buying
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