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New comment by nojito in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

nojito — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:32:10 +0000

All models almost certainly can’t do that.

New comment by nojito in "US bans differential privacy in Census data"

nojito — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:31:06 +0000

>There are many other ways to determine where schools and hospitals are needed, such as aggregate enrollment and admission statistics.

You do realize there are places where there aren't schools or hospitals?

New comment by nojito in "US bans differential privacy in Census data"

nojito — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:29:32 +0000

>And as others have pointed out, other departments and agencies (such as the IRS) have most of the rest of the data required to make policy decisions.

There are laws in place forbidding government agencies from merging together datasets.

The last thing people should support is creating of profiles of individuals by combining data from different government agencies. This is why the census is so important as a data collection mechanism.

New comment by nojito in "MAI-Thinking-1"

nojito — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:10:51 +0000

No distillation. Comparing it to DeepSeek or GLM doesn't make much sense.

New comment by nojito in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

nojito — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:53:07 +0000

Not in the US.

New comment by nojito in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

nojito — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:52:19 +0000

>And by your argument poker or backgammon would not be gambling either.

They aren't. A sportsbook explicitly sets lines and you are betting that the line they set is incorrect.

New comment by nojito in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

nojito — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:50:34 +0000

>Kalshi and Polymarket are mainly just sportsbooks.

How? They sell contracts between two users. One side each. Completely different from a sportsbook where users are betting that the lines they set are not correct.

New comment by nojito in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

nojito — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:39:54 +0000

A different entity provides liquidity.

There’s no house like in sportsbooks.

New comment by nojito in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

nojito — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:49:30 +0000

Just like other exchanges.

They charge trading fees.

New comment by nojito in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

nojito — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:47:13 +0000

Not exactly. Kalshi is binary options. Not stocks.

New comment by nojito in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

nojito — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:44:30 +0000

There’s no “house” or “book” aspect to Kalshi. They are nothing more than contracts that are bought and sold between individuals.

New comment by nojito in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

nojito — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:08:39 +0000

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New comment by nojito in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

nojito — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:27:33 +0000

This doesn't say what you think it does.

Language like elixir were given easier problems to solve when compared to other languages.

New comment by nojito in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

nojito — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:21:26 +0000

It makes enterprise deployments much easier because most orgs already have github enterprise.

New comment by nojito in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

nojito — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:19:34 +0000

It seems to be for sql users who don’t know python or r.

New comment by nojito in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

nojito — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:18:19 +0000

Highly suggest leveraging adbc. I would love to use this against our bigquery tables.

New comment by nojito in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

nojito — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:37:46 +0000

The markets I participate in tend to be illiquid, but as prediction markets get more popular things are getting better on that front.

New comment by nojito in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

nojito — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:33:26 +0000

Correct and the higher brackets above 2.5m were at 50-70 cents each.

New comment by nojito in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

nojito — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:26:24 +0000

Not true at all.

A great example was this market from the most recent primary election.

https://kalshi.com/markets/kxtxsenatedemturnout/voter-turnou...

Based on just simple math there was basically no chance of turnout being over 2.5m and yet the market for multiple days had the higher buckets at exorbitant prices.

New comment by nojito in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

nojito — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:38:13 +0000

>Why would any non-insider participate in these markets?

Because they are grossly mis-priced for anyone mildly informed.