TheAlchemist

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by TheAlchemist 9mo ago
Nobody disputes that the car can drive itself 99% of the time. It can and it's a great system (well, opinions diverge, I mostly agree). But it's very far from a Robotaxi - for any reasonable person, Robotaxi means unsupervised rid
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by TheAlchemist 9mo ago
In SF ? That would be illegal, as Tesla don't even have the permit to do that: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto... They only can test with a driver for now. Can you take a ride in
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by TheAlchemist 9mo ago
From the outside yes - money and career wise, he accomplished everything he wanted. His personal life is much more complicated though - impossible to know if he was happy or not, but for sure it was not usual.
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by TheAlchemist 9mo ago
Read his biography - "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life". It's quite long but pretty accurate picture of the man and what drives him. His answer was always that he just loves what he does and he does it wi
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by TheAlchemist 9mo ago
This talk has popped on HN from time to time - it's worth watching, especially as one reflects on past year and make plans for the next one.
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You and Your Research – Richard Hamming (June 6, 1995) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by TheAlchemist 9mo ago|1 comments
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by TheAlchemist 9mo ago
One would be crazy to bet on that on Polymarket. They had a bet for Tesla Robotaxi rollout before end of 2025 and it resolved to YES. So it must be like your FSD - Tesla is apparently already operating a general public access autonomus Robo
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by TheAlchemist 9mo ago
Dale Carnegies book 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' could actually help a bit. It's a self-help book, 100 years old, but still very relevant. Nothing magical in it, but quite useful, and for somebody as young as you
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by TheAlchemist 9mo ago
Yeah, that was already almost 1 year after they were supposedly planning to have the top 5 compute ... The reality is they announced that as a pipe dream. Just like the FSD, Robotaxi, Optimus and 10 other projects that will never work - or
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by TheAlchemist 9mo ago
It's really amazing. Anyone still remembers Dojo ? 2 years ago or so they stated that they start to mass produce Dojo and it was supposed to be a top 5 supercomputer in the world by the end of 2024... https://thedriven.io&#x
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by TheAlchemist 9mo ago
The reason for that is actually very funny. Electrek guy (Fred) was one of the main propagandist for Tesla's cult - he 'earned' 2 free Tesla Roadsters for his convincing enough people to buy a Tesla. It was only once he reali
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If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)(gregmckeown.com)
452 points by TheAlchemist 10mo ago|254 comments
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by TheAlchemist 10mo ago
Musk empire will come crashing down, starting with Tesla. AI bubble will start to pop (even though the adoption continues to improve slowly). US / Europe separation will accelerate. EDIT: For the first 2 - it's the 3rd year I&#x27
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Tesla Robotaxi spotted without a safety driver in Austin; Musk confirms testing(electrek.co)
3 points by TheAlchemist 10mo ago|0 comments
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by TheAlchemist 10mo ago
This is pretty exciting. When I first saw Mojo, it was announced as a 'python superset' with C++ performance. This announcement seems somewhat more modest, but still seems like a big step - open sourcing it should be very good for
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by TheAlchemist 10mo ago
FPGAs are widely used in low latency trading. Most market data feed handlers and order passing adapters are done in FPGAs today - they offer better latency than software solutions and processing time is deterministic. One example of a compa
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by TheAlchemist 11mo ago
I think the quote from the Polish Prime Minister refusing very similar German demands just before WW2 started is appropriated here: “Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But
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by TheAlchemist 11mo ago
100%. The first version of Trump as a president was a clown that was being managed by responsible people, mostly. The second time however, he learned his lesson. He's still a clown but he put his people, ranked by loyalty above anythin
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Grok: Yep, Elon Musk Is More Fit Than LeBron, More Handsome Than Brad Pitt(au.pcmag.com)
28 points by TheAlchemist 11mo ago|6 comments
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by TheAlchemist 11mo ago
One must love the projections of >50% YOY growth for 5 straight years. Why not continue for the next 5 ? Maybe they will find customers on Mars. This while situation is very strange - there are some big companies pouring tens of billions
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by TheAlchemist 11mo ago
It's mentionned in the article later: "If you are old enough, or possessed of a certain kind of disposition, you may be thinking, Wait a minute, aren’t you describing Enron? And uh, in some sense, yes! Enron’s whole thing was spec
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by TheAlchemist 11mo ago
"core AI players are profitable and funding capex from real earnings" What ? Who's profitable except NVidia who is selling shovels (increasingly to itself) ? Edit. Profitable on AI, if by profitable you mean from other source
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by TheAlchemist 11mo ago
There was, at least towards the end. FED chair at the time described it as 'irrational exuberance'. Warren Buffett made an excellent speech in front of most Silicon Valley titans at the time - telling them that their wealth is ab
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by TheAlchemist 11mo ago
Frankly, I would be happy if riots in the streets happen (if there is a bailout of Big Tech in the first place). What's going on recently with OpenAI publicly, and probably most of the 'AI' players not publicly, is disgusting
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by TheAlchemist 11mo ago
Warren Buffett is buying Alphabet out of neceessity - he already sold most of what he could sell and has way too much cash on hand - he just need to buy 'something' - Alphabet seems like the least overvalued big stock out there.
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Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Money from $220M DHS Ad Contracts(propublica.org)
10 points by TheAlchemist 11mo ago|0 comments
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by TheAlchemist 11mo ago
Oh, wasn't aware that Amazon is launching something to space - what are they launching ?
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by TheAlchemist 11mo ago
Most of which was for Starlink. Not saying it's not an achievement - it is. But if you exclude their own payload, the picture is somewhat different.
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by TheAlchemist 11mo ago
They will start loosing money this quarter. That way it fixes the high P/E aspect of things. Now they will be a 'pure play' in Robotics & AI ! I love this scene from Silicon Valley: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by TheAlchemist 11mo ago
I truly don't understand US politics I think. MAGA movement cares very much (or is it just optics ?) about family etc, and this Epstein scandal seems to be extremly important to them. But the problem, and a pretty big one, is that thei

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