Glaive0
@Glaive0@beehaw.org
- Comment on Hey kid 5 months ago:
One of my nephews asks about these sorts of things all the time. It’s a delight that he’s frequently interested in the answer. Usually I have to abstract it by a bit, but he’s smart and will often bring up my answers later.
- Comment on biblically accurate 6 months ago:
This is basically the plot of Sodom and Gamora.
- Comment on arachnidz 7 months ago:
Adrian. Tchaikovsky. Children of Time.
If you don’t like spiders, he at least makes it hard to hate them.
- Comment on [HN] Target says it's closing stores due to theft. The data tells a different story 1 year ago:
TL;DR:
Stores that are closing in New York, Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco were all able to analyzed for a variety of theft crimes as compared to nearby stores in their cities. In each case, stores that are closing are less than or similar to nearby stores in reported rates of these crimes. Other locations mentioned by Target were not able to be analyzed, either due to insufficient data or no comparable stores in those cities.
In addition, “shrink” rates for Target locations continues a regular oscillation of between 1.2% and 1.6% of gross sales, often correlating with movement in retail sales overall. Of factors that contribute to shrink, retail theft is only one. Others factors include employee theft, processing, and administrative mistakes.
Popular Info points to these data and announced plans for smaller stores being built near to many of the closures as a possible indicator of other factors leading to these closures than theft. The announcement and blame came out the same day as an industry group’s report on the impacts of retail theft on sales.
- Comment on [HN] Open Challenges in LLM Research 1 year ago:
Sadly, I have nothing valuable to add to this conversation.
Except that I misread LLM as LMG and thought this was another post about them before I got really confused. Then I realized it might not entirely be off, before checking again and realizing that it definitely is.
- Comment on [TECHCRUNCH] Here’s why Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to ‘X’ is good, actually 1 year ago:
It’s good because we can now refer to tweets as exes and, though some of us will linger on, wishing things were the way they used to be, many of us will move on and remember what a deeply abusive relationship we left.
It’s good because it draws attention to the fact that the owning company is now called the cyberpunk “x-corp” and maybe anyone at all will actually leave because they recognize that companies idolizing cyberpunk corpos are things to run and hide from.