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I find it absolutely hilarious how the people who comment positively under the tweets of the grifter-in-chief all seem to be promoting some kind of gift themselves, be it a merch store, a supplement, or a podcast.

It's grifters all the way down
It beautifully mirrors the fact that his closest allies are themselves only part of the journey because of some large-scale grift of their own -- Manafort, Giuliani, etc

Grifters all the way up

You could call it the Trump scale:

☑️ Trump supporters on Twitter: small-time grift (knock off merch, disinfo podcasts...)

☑️ Close Trump allies: big-time grift (influence peddling, money laundering...)

☑️ Trump: the biggest grift, believe me
Related: mid-level Trumpers (e.g. the founder of "Students for Trump") turn out to be mid-level grifters ($46k scam) nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-st…

There's always a grift, it comes with the territory
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François Chollet
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It's a religious idea -- an eschatology. Which is why believers get so emotional about it. A religion that happens to be very popular among physicists for some reason...
At the end of the day, even physicists need fantasy stories to make sense of the world.
To be specific, I would say that the superintelligence apocalypse is to religion what hard sci-fi is to the fantasy genre. Same content and purpose, but with a veneer of rational plausibility that makes it easier for scientific minds to suspend disbelief
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François Chollet
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I've read this story. It was called "Herbert West, Reanimator"

scientificamerican.com/article/is-dea…
Happy Halloween btw
Herbert West: Reanimator had a 1985 movie adaptation that was decently good
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François Chollet
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Keras Tuner is now out of beta! v1 is out on PyPI.

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Fully-featured, scalable, easy-to-use hyperparameter tuning for Keras & beyond.
It supports RandomSearch, BayesianOptimization, and Hyperband. Can run locally or in a distributed setting. It's possible to have both multi-device single-model training (one machine training one model over 8 GPUs) and distributed search (many models in parallel) at the same time
Now go win some Kaggle competitions with this 😉
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Folks, sharing some thoughts on the reactions across the border ever since the Home Minister announced the abrogation of Article 370, and with it, 35A earlier this week.
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The motion is weak and the basis is LOLable, but my suspicion is that the judge will grant it (though likely for less than 3 weeks)

Defendants will argue the burden is on Plaintiff to show good cause (the motion doesn't do that), plus ongoing harassment

Positive for the Defendants. He gives their attorneys lots of usable material

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People who get mad at other people for playing single-player games at reduced difficulty are simply afraid of being devalued.

They've chosen to define themselves by their hobby, and therefore their value lies in being good at it.
However, that value only exists to them because they feel other people will find it impressive.

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I like to Retweet small accounts because we all need a larger voice. So when people share good things under my tweets and I happen to see them, I will retweet them. I truly appreciate your replies, comments, and info sharing. We are all a team . #MAGA #Patriotsunited
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So put out great content and your account will grow. And as far as i am able , I will help as many as I can. #Patriotsunited
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