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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/05/2026

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

And also. The “open borders” on an idea is what allows the American Dream *out*. It is precisely why it is so powerful - that we don’t lay singular claim to our freedom, but proclaim it the heritage of humanity writ large, that all can aspire to.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

So glad to hear it matters! Made a New Years resolution a few years ago to let people know when their work really mattered to me, and that included reaching out to a couple authors. Hopefully they received the messages (some ema, some actual written letter.)

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Sure, but that’s the case for basically all post-automobile development in the US.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Because: railroads. (Why Atlanta is east coast anomaly being located away from coast / fall line.)

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I do think there’s an asterix for partisan voters who sit out a race because they can’t bring themselves to actively vote for the opposition but are upset enough with their own party’s selection to sit it out and let the other side win. Just have to be honest that that’s the choice being made.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Oh that’s an unfair race. HEB would win in a landslide.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I’m glad for research to show it, but this seems like a basic behavioral economics concept, right? And that fits with personal experience? I imagine most people have had that experience of a negative shock in happy vs sad times, and happy hits harder. You habituate to the negative.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

That makes sense. Just saw them both on your lighter pack and was curious.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Separately- what is your thinking fir both the tent + extra tarp? Just extra protection?

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

What exactly is strapped on the top of your pack? Can that get inside? And lots of folks leave the Sawyer attached to the extra bottle - could free up your 2nd hip belt for some items that way (thats where my phone lives). Not sure what all is in your garage - can some of that move internal?

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Ditto this! How does that even work?!? I wouldn’t know where to begin trying to figure out how to **hang** my canister! I have read of folks rigging then with an alarm though, which seems like a cool idea.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Why hang? I’ve only ever tied them off down low (admittedly Rockies, not appalachians, but I imagine the same principles would hold.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This really reads like a “women don’t think things through properly” take. And I would encourage you to sit with that for a minute and see if that’s what you really meant.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

But at that point, is it “christian”? Or a different religion that had christianity as an input but has now mixed with other ingredients to become an entirely different thing? If a version of “Christianity” doesn’t include the teachings of Christ, is it still Christianity?

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” We don’t always live up to it, but American principles on the matter are crystal clear.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

For sure. But it can *really* speed up alpha development to the point where you can user test it. Which can really speed up the iterative development. Because users actually interacting with something helps a lot in working through the “what - exactly - are we trying to do” use case examples.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

It’s different in social sciences where the writing and the thinking are inextricably linked, and where the “pseudo code” product is the final product, because they end user is also human and not a machine. 2/2

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

What they fail to get is that predictive algorithms for coding are transformative because they streamline the “turn these task specs from human language into computer language” part of the job. They don’t transform the thinking part of figuring out which tasks need doing and why. 1/

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Seems an apt time to re-post this article on Tehran.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

This is an important story. Groundwater over-extraction and aquifer collapse / ground sinking (subsidence) is a concern all over. CA central valley has sunk almost 30’ in a century. Tehran is no longer viable. And that water storage is gone forever. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...

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Iran’s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe

The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The distinction between sexuality (what *other* people am I attracted to) and gender identity (how do I see *myself*) seems so obvious I’m perpetually surprised by the confusion. Who do I want to be *with* vs who do I want to *be*.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Also more underlying problems vs policy. Policies are just implementation plans, and while people tend to jump to stating the solution they want, they don’t always understand the full picture enough to get the best answer. But can identify problems well if you can get them to move upstream a bit.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Was thinking today I would love to see surveys that asked a question and then got respondents to rephrase the Q in their own words before recording the answer.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

As written you might assume that correlates to interest in education, and I’m sure the political aspect is part of it. But I would want to see it better teased apart to address the economic cost / benefit aspect and to know what question respondents were actually answering.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I will now wear my typos as a “this skeet was composed by a human” source of pride.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Counter argument: theres a real difference between humanities and hard sciences on this front. And the fact that STEM fields sees some benefit in the use of AI for paper generation suggests the paper format was never actually the best format for *that* type of knowledge transfer.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Think I disagree. Because Scouts plays a big role in providing community and continuity to military families. We can talk about what these partnerships should look like / mean, but need to make sure youth don’t wind up as collateral damage.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

What does ‘ideologue’ mean? I’ve been reading these posts and feel I’m not quite grasping the concept in context. For example what would make someone an ideological moderate? Or what is the distinction of conditions vs ideology? Signed: STEMy poster willing to look stupid asking this question.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

“So what is this ‘technical debt’ thing you keep talking about?”

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Assuming you are trying to highlight areas of risk rather than safer areas, the colorbar on the top chart should be changed to better convey that. Simply flipping the colorscale could work, or other options. But as currently done it violates default user expectations.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

My 2c: *Coding* is just translation from human to machine. AI can be quite helpful. Determining *what* to code (and if it was what you actually meant)? Thats science / art, and AI going to struggle to do it well. And we will still have the issue of people blindly believing whatever is spit out.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

We’ve had pretty good luck with whisper. It seems to ID the diff speakers though admittedly haven’t done extensive testing to be sure it is right. Some issues with heavily accented English/poor sound quality, but being fair to the software I couldn’t really do much better.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Nice! Thanks for sharing! Super helpful.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Thoughts on this idea: People who have thought about issues a lot and are focused on it categorize themselves by what they are *for*. for issues that are less central to yourself, it can more often be defined by what you’re *not*. Not sure thats quite right, but do think there is a split.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Can’t recommend highly enough. Absolutely fascinating read. The wikipedia hits the highlights of his life, and the writing itself is also great. Just slow (for me) as I learn the limits of my European history and have to catch myself up.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

My total is decent (not great) but includes some solid slow-reads like Walden and (ongoing) the Patrick Leigh Fermor books about his 1933-34 walk from Holland to Constantinople where every other paragraph sends me on a wikipedia sidequest. (Amazing read though.)

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

My best analogy for this is a highly trained avalanche dog. And I generally think if we got people to think of LLMs like service animals with a particular aptitude for pattern recognition in natural language vs a human replacement we would be much better off.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I wonder sometimes if these analyses are failing to factor in the value of supports outside traditional economic measures. Living in a tight knit supportive community (for example) provides a value thats real but harder to measure, even for things (ex: care favors) with clear economic benefits.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

So you can custom train LLMs on your own data - thats what RAGs (retrieval augmented generation) are. You take an off the shelf LLM for the natural language parsing and feed it your custom corpus to query. Haven’t seen an off the shelf tool to do so but relatively straightforward to setup locally.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

In this case an example could be treating it more like a RAG such that the general LLM was trained on conversations with that specific patient. Obviously would need fleshing out. But an endlessly patient chatbot that could handle the repetitive Q could be truly helpful for both sides.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I can see a route to a valuable AI (well-trained and with guardrails!) for things like dementia care. Not to fully replace humans, but to perhaps be an assist that helps reduce caregiver burnout.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

People like binaries, but they’re generally false. Your opponents polling strength doesnt inherently mean their position is right - just that your position (or communication) has been more wrong. But like in this case there is often an alternative path waiting outside the this-or-that framing.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I agree, but do think they can be usefu if used / reviewed right away (not minutes stored for future reference.) In my use case when using it this way, I ask it to generate a quick overview/ identified task list that is immediately edited with my own recollections.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

There’s truth here, but I do think it misses some work (historically delegated to women) that is valuable in the “cleanup / structure” arena. The example that jumps to mind is meeting minutes. Useful output, and tasking an AI secretary frees humans to more deeply engage in the meeting content.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Using diff tool - will have to check out Claude / concise. Last session I asked it to pull a table from a pdf, which went well, but then asked for the python code to generically do that task and things went off the rails. Including referencing a (nonexistent) online doc vs the one provided.

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lpearson.bsky.social @lpearson.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

a) does this work b) for the love of everything holy can someone please provide an AI tool that does this out of the box. For most questions my “OMG please STFU” response gets triggered before I can get to a useable prompt.

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