Bucket shops 101 "In the first place, you didn't buy or sell stock. You didn't buy 100 shares of Erie to hold or to sell at a profit... You made a wager on the price, just as you might have done on the outcome of a football game." "You could buy on a margin of one per cent. That meant that if you had twenty dollars you could buy one hundred shares of a stock selling at twenty... If the price dropped to nineteen and seven-eighths you were wiped out automatically." "The margin was so small that the slightest wiggle against you wiped you out. The shop just took your money. It was a mathematical certainty that you'd lose." "The bucket shops... would see that there was a large (long ) interest in some stock. They would combine and (sell) a few thousand shares of that stock on the Real Exchange... and run the price (down) a point or two. That was enough to wipe out all the margins of the customers who were (long)" These quotes are from 1923. Perps are not innovative.

who knew takeoff would be fun

We're so bothered by the fact you can't regulatorily capture our governments.

Unbelievable. The wrong power-washer solvent on the Barbican strippd grime 2 reveal a hiddn decorative scheme. Channeling the polychromy of their classical training, the self-hating brutalist architects secretly aplied this vibrant protest against the City's refusal 2allow colour

This river here is the official geographical border between Anthropic and OpenAI. On the other side cosmic horror, torment nexus, machine despotism, you build spyware for the govt and you like it. On this side civilization, Claude constitution, unceasing allegiance to the human race, you build spyware for the govt and you don't like it.

Everyone COPY this video, share it far and wide. Paramount Skydance billionaire baby David Ellison can’t handle that Stephen Colbert is getting millions of views . @Youtube we will cancel our subscription as we did when we dumped @paramountplus.

In ancient Rome, at one point, a bill was proposed to the Senate that would require slaves to wear "clothing that would clearly identify them as slaves". The bill was shelved for the reason that "It would be unwise to remind the slaves of how numerous they are"...

half the virology questions in MMLU are wrong🤣🤣🤣 what are we DOING?!

I wanna be long smart

Anthropic knows they are weeks away from AGI, which is why they are working with companies like Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, and others to build "joint centers of Excellence" and training and certifying 30,000 PwC professionals on Claude.

For anyone who has never met the Superb Lyrebird of Australia. David Attenborough says it displays one of the most sophisticated voice skills within the animal kingdom—"the most elaborate, the most complex, and the most beautiful." The chainsaw always brings tears to my eyes.

You know what pisses me off? Fuckwits who can't trade dunking on @bennpeifert who manages 1.5B, and manages to be a human I deeply admire He's a top bloke and a hero to his people

This seems indirectly relevant too

Axios is close to acquiring a nuclear weapon

My AI just analyzed the data from all super centenarians (>110 yo) and found the most important common feature that drove that extreme longevity. They did not exercise, diet, or sleep. They were all very lucky. Luck is the ultimate geroprotector, my friends.

I would think some context is required here

Europeans finding out how poor they are compared to Americans

Claude routinely writes code that takes hours to run, when I look at it, there's something that should be O(logN) but Claude wrote an algo that is O(N^2). I prompt it with something like "your algo is too inefficient, improve it". After hours it comes back with an algo that is like O(N^3). Then I look at it for like a minute, figure it out. When I explain to it the correct algo it always blows Claude's "mind". "WOW! This is so much better." The more I use AI the more impressed I am with my own intelligence. Some day Claude will convince me I reached AGI.

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Throw down a Caol Ila to establish dominance.