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by Animats 4mo ago
Yes. It's important to know whose prediction, and what it's based on. ">15% of corporate revenue is expected to come from the metaverse in the next 5 years according to 25% of senior executives" - McKinsey [1] [1]
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> I think that PID hits a certain sweet spot between cleverness, ease of implementation and practical utility that makes it catnip for the typical programmer's mind. It's easy to implement, but hard to tune. PID controllers can
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> The restrictions on LLM models like Fable has created a viable international LLM market where it was difficult to justify investment two weeks ago. Note the big cut in token prices from China. [1] https://www.globaltimes.cn&
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by Animats 4mo ago
> The top graph makes it seem much more dramatic than it is. It's all projections, too. They don't even have a line to show where they are going from actuals to guesses.
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> "You don’t need a Google account to operate the device." Now that's progress.
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Aw, it's just one big picture of book covers. You can't click on the books and read them. If they're AI-written, they're not copyrightable, so you could post the full text. Looking at the books side by side would be inte
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> But then you generate 50 of them and they all converge into the same pattern. The AI slop that appears on YouTube as "revenge stories" and "POV life" all have that pattern. There's almost always a Marcus and a
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by Animats 4mo ago
In C++, that distinction supposedly exists. References should never be null, while pointers can be. But there's no enforcement. int& ref = *ptr; ought to generate a panic for a null pointer. But it doesn't. They were
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by Animats 4mo ago
Right. Six years of work on a grunt job. That's what automation is for.
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A diff.[1] [1] https://github.com/qarl/qscreensaver/commit/2843caba683495d5...
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One of the first of those systems, Starship, tested in Redwood City for six months, almost a decade ago. A "safety driver" tagged along, about half a block behind, with some kind of controller. Their units were slow, rather dumb,
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by Animats 4mo ago
This is a job for Claude! What happens if you turn a job like that over to Claude Code? A mess? Good results? Code bloat? Worth trying on existing C programs.
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Plus the Carlyle Group, Temple Emanu-El in NYC, the Rothchilds... If any of them are running the world, we're not seeing the results. The current level of competence at world-running is very low. Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, Xi, and whomev
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The Ukrainian counter-UAV industry is already seeing huge growth. The Gulf oil states attacked by Iran are buying.[1] Strong counter-UAV defense requires an entire integrated low-altitude air defense systems. The US systems the Gulf states
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Other countries with rising weapons businesses are Ukraine and Iran. The best endorsement for a weapons manufacturer is winning a war against a tough opponent.
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Ops.group published a report on GPS spoofing back in 2024.[1] It's bad. Ops.group is an organization for dispatchers and pilots, the people who decide the routes aircraft take and fly them. They are really angry about it. Key concerns:
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by Animats 4mo ago
Great result on the biochemistry of memory storage. Then they venture into philosophy: "They still struggle to explain the spark that transforms information into insight." Go watch Stable Diffusion iteratively transform noise into
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That's round 2 of England's established church problems. Not as bad as round 1, where the Catholic church was violently disestablished by Henry VIII so he could divorce his wife. Cromwell told the Catholics they could go "to
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78,500. The very first one was "Unique". I wondered if "the only one of its kind" was still the correct answer, having seen "very unique" used all too often recently. They accept "only one of its kind&quot
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by Animats 4mo ago
Oh. It's Softbank exiting humanoid robotics at Softbank's discretion. That's a lot different than " Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics". Hyundai bought them years ago. This is just the last 8%.
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Ah. That's in the reference to Wyoming Catholic University.[1] "What exactly is our technology policy? It has three parts: (1) no televisions on campus; (2) dorm internet access limited to school email and selected websites for cl
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by Animats 4mo ago
I hate proof of work code running on my machine for the benefit of someone else. It's like planting a crypto miner.
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Yes. [1] [1] https://users.rust-lang.org/t/crossbeam-channel-try-send-int...
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Most of the world lives in concrete multifamily housing.
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It's the single escape stairway thing again. Is there a paid lobby behind this?
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Why can't AI replicate that? Because it's not reliable enough to let it do anything which might cost the service provider. This is the cost of hallucinations. You can't let the customer service AI issue refunds, or upgrade
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Article is from 2025, and "extend and pretend" is coming unglued.[1] Extend and pretend was big around 2024.[2] The other side of this is that landlords hate to reduce rent to rent vacant spaces because their paying tenants will d
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Google bought Google Earth from Keyhole. I had a Keyhole account long before Google was in the business, and it worked about like Google Earth does now.
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> There will be a threshold point where companies decide it will be cheaper to just cull the human population and no longer pay these bribes. What company will be the first to offer assisted suicide as part of a termination package?
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"Elevated errors" as in crashing, or as in being stupid?

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