Zigurd

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by Zigurd 11d ago
Brutalism isn't cheaper. Not even in the secondary market. Brutalist masterpieces like the Barbican are highly desirable residences.
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by Zigurd 11d ago
The worst architecture is a combination of cost optimization and aiming for looking traditional-ish. That's a recipe for future blight.
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by Zigurd 11d ago
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by Zigurd 11d ago
You are wildly optimistic about police priorities and effectiveness, with or without flock cameras, when it comes to property crime.
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by Zigurd 12d ago
Isn't this how every agent works these days? Apple and Google are working on tool calling for apps, but that's still going to be backstopped by screen scraping for years very likely. It's a good bet that everybody's got
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by Zigurd 12d ago
We are all adapting our methods to the times.
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by Zigurd 12d ago
I don't mean to make you write a dissertation but to say that AI benchmarks can "capture properties that generalize from examining performance against a small set of tasks" is a bald assertion. It's a hypothesis without
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by Zigurd 13d ago
I'm sure they also use the Gemini coding agent to write new Gemini code. But that's far short of self improvement.
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by Zigurd 13d ago
I thought by now AIs would not only be rewriting their code, but rewriting CPU microcode to optimize how their code is written and executed. Nowhere close it turns out.
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by Zigurd 13d ago
LMFTFY: If all the LLM pure plays who are stuck between impossible valuations and the inability to IPO are in agreement that they should colludes to conserve capital, they might not flame out before they figure out how to fix their numbers,
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by Zigurd 13d ago
Which AI CEO hasn't been gyrating between scaremongering and selling the shining city on a hill?
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by Zigurd 13d ago
From a guy who thinks spacs and crypto aren't in need of regulation, unless the regulators are fully captured, either.
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by Zigurd 13d ago
It's the 1960s missile gap in the 21st century, and the only people who aren't susceptible are the Russians because they can't afford table stakes. The Chinese have 47 humanoid robot companies and they need fewer than one. Th
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by Zigurd 13d ago
If you use streaming at all, you can't defend against all data collection, but you can minimize it. Don't put your TV on your network. Use a streaming box and keep it powered off unless you're using it. Not just turned off, b
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by Zigurd 13d ago
You are right it won't work, but a race with China is in the imaginations of politicians taken in by AI CEOs scaremongering. The Chinese are probably willing to stand by and watch the US overbuild AI data centers.
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by Zigurd 13d ago
Everyone uses the example of stadiums, but the occupancy rate of stadiums makes the economics of the network and backhaul iffy. I would guess only the biggest NFL stadiums get it as a showcase. Maybe parts of Manhattan, too. Chinese cities,
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by Zigurd 14d ago
Most of what passes for 5G in the US is the same old but full duplex with wider channels. Calling that 5G obscures the fact that millimeter wave 5G standalone is a totally different beast, and a huge network engineering challenge. It may se
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by Zigurd 14d ago
All of these are true: the cops are untrustworthy; a bust like this gets overhyped and both the government issued information and the reporting are inaccurate; pedantry about select fire modes is pointless; Americans have a right to buy mil
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by Zigurd 15d ago
Whether they can be credited with caring or not, one party didn't follow Netanyahu into war casually, even fecklessly.
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by Zigurd 15d ago
Their lack of self-awareness is striking. Very often an insurgent would love to make half the revenue of the incumbent. He's not pointing out a problem with improving social media, he's pointing out the problem of being the incumb
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by Zigurd 15d ago
The answer depends on scale, and appropriateness. If you've got enough engineers, you can do platform native code. The results will look better. Appropriateness often comes down to is the code doing deep platform API things, with senso
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by Zigurd 15d ago
I hope the point is bigger than a nit to pick, but a plain slot machine is still bad. Social media used to be good or at least interesting in a good way. Maybe it can be again.
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by Zigurd 15d ago
It can be good in the way that meals with green vegetables aren't consumed as voraciously as cheeseburgers and fries. It depends on the quality of what's in the feed.
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by Zigurd 15d ago
Although Bluesky is tiny, they are the biggest and most stable proponent of letting users control their feed. Even if they don't grow big, being half the size of a toxic social media platform is a damn good business model. Somebody can
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by Zigurd 16d ago
What does FSD stand for, remind me.
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by Zigurd 16d ago
Fascism and racism are more than personal failings when you splash around hundreds of millions of dollars to, for example, get neofascists elected in a German state.
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by Zigurd 16d ago
He is the archetype of creation by exhortation. How many people destroyed their health trying to make FSD work by the end of this year for 10 years?
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by Zigurd 16d ago
All of Waymo's vehicles are fitted with the Waymo driver hardware by a contract manufacturer who builds low volume car models for several big brands.
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by Zigurd 16d ago
Conveniently the same CM builds the Jaguar SUVs and fits Waymo hardware to vehicles.
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by Zigurd 16d ago
Waymo uses lidar, radar, cameras, mics, and other sensors. They also have extra extraordinary geospatial data. And they have years of operational experience. They also spend $1 billion a year on R&D. while they are probably at least bre

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