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The recent fires in Los Angeles were preventable with proper leadership and planning.

Firing the BLS commissioner, halting government data collection. We are pushing over the edge something that was already deeply problematic.

We've been thinking about alternative sources of data because of the shutdown and just this general defunding and antagonism towards businesses like the BLS.

We're going to look back on this period and just say, God, we've been so inefficient because I think the ultimate LLM will probably be about a billion parameters.

The ultimate LLM will probably be about a billion parameters, indicating a future of more efficient AI models.

The ultimate LLM will probably be about a billion parameters, indicating a future of more efficient AI models.

Even the ADP report had lots of notes about how the BLS data benchmark revision affected their model because their model is in part trained on and meant to mimic what they think is happening in the BLS.

We need to double down on BLS. We need more funding in the government. We need better data collection services from the federal government. Yes, 100%.

The first step is: you've got to turn your back on the state. People are waiting for a top-down solution, but it's really all hands on deck.

The question I've gotten most over the past two months is, is there a good private sector replacement for the Bureau of Labor Statistics data? And the answer is unequivocally not.