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nicholastsmithon USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers

Depending if that was sarcasm or not, I may have some bad/good news for you:

https://facts.usps.com/0-tax-dallars/

nicholastsmithon Computer Saturation and the Productivity Slowdown

An amusing thread on the subject:

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527748950892544?s=20...

nicholastsmithon Brothers Become Paralysed When the Sun Sets Each Day (2016)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_myasthenic_syndrome...

nicholastsmithon Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks

I thought neuroscience had largely moved away from the idea of "grandmother neurons" in favor of sparsity [1]. This seems to suggest that the model is functioning differently than the human brain...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6822296/

nicholastsmithon GME: Or, why we shouldn't underestimate “4chan with a Bloomberg terminal”

I really like this take. The whole time (pandemic onward) I've been thinking: "how can a bunch of small potatoes on WSB actually make such an impact." This neatly explains it... It's the HFT amplifying these actions.