… “middletone”? ChatGPT: Khaki with a greenish tint to it. If you don’t have it ready here are six ways to mix it, pick whichever is easiest: *six ways* Me: Wow that’s useful. So Middletone and then a sepia wash like I usually do? ChatGPT: Want something just slightly…
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Painting tips for model ogre club horns and tusks
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A lightly paraphrased discussion with ChatGPT, about a model ogre I was painting: *photo* Me: So one of those horn-like protrusions for the club is not like the others. I don’t want to do the same treatment I’m doing for all the other generic tusks, but I also don’t want to…
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GameStop Dollars vs Chase Dollars: Digital Currency Negotiability
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The key property the GameStop account doesn’t have is negotiability; while one might actually try to do this for oneself, and I really wouldn’t recommend it, one would not be able to buy one’s food or pay one’s rent with GameStop dollars. One does this with Chase dollars.
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Bank Regulation History: Finding and Banning Loopholes
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The history of bank regulation is discovering the asterisk implied by that sentence and then banning the heck out of it for a while.
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Bureaucratic Redundancy in Data Collection Forms
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“Why does anyone need the pronunciation?” There are some characters which are ambiguous if you don’t have arbitrarily intense local knowledge. “And… do you actually need that to send mail?” No, but the last 99 forms asked for pronunciation, so the requirements document will
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Tech Culture of Ownership and Founder-Led Agency
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As an aside: if tech could export one cultural quirk to the rest of the world, it should be the culture of end to end ownership and agency, ideally throughout the chain and in the avatar of the founder if we cannot manage that.
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IRB Ethics Concerns in AI Clinical Trial Process
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That piece was ~50% of the reason that I immediately suspected IRB shenanigans. (I was told they were the models of professionalism in accelerating the process for the trial and could not have been more helpful, by the PI.)
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Incompetence in Clinical Trial Decision-Making Processes
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And in this exact case we get partial credit because by some string of coincidences and communications pathways someone whose knowledge of clinical trial practice optimization was due to selling bingo cards got tapped to make the call on how many questions to ask an enrollee.
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Institutions and Inadequate Equilibria in Decision Making
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I haven’t read a better book on this general issue that Inadequate Equilibria. Because *clearly* society would have wanted that trial to succeed (contingent on the biochemistry working etc etc). But society doesn’t make decisions; the institutions it is consisted of do.
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Academic System Failures Hide Research Trial Underperformance Issues
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It’s not the grad student’s fault, not in any way that matters. Nobody at the university wants to make an enemy of the PI or alienate potential funders in the future. There is no after action on why the trial underperformed because the system does not know, legibly, that it did.