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by Zigurd 11mo ago
That sounds like the finance bro version of mystical woo. There's nothing special about it. There must be doctors who say diagnosis is an art form. But AI will still out perform the diagnosis.
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
Most of the definitions I've heard of AGI are that it outperforms humans at complex professional tasks. That would include capital allocation.
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
If AGI is actually attainable, then, sure, planned economies will be more performant than market economies, especially for high value industrial captal equipment. No need for Gosplan to decide on your candy bars and craft breweries.
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
This question is weirdly wrapped up in how robots are perceived, and how humanoid robots are propelled by hype about replacing humans. Robots that are actual industrial capital equipment already pay property taxes. Unless of course the stat
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
He is a key funder of techno fascism. Concerning.
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
iRobot hasn't got that excuse. They had market dominance and high margins for long enough that, had they retained focus, they could've created follow up products that would've made for durable, defensible market leadership, e
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
15 years ago I would've agreed. I saw SUVs with obvious BMW inspired styling cues that had manufacturers badges that were conveniently the same place and the same size as the BMW roundel. I saw Starbucks and Pizza Hut look-alikes. I sa
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
Take that with a grain of salt (typhoon).
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
I'm working on a multi platform client for ATProto servers, like Bluesky. The emphasis is on a clean orthogonal UI, running on platforms the default client doesn't run on, and better use of screen space on small devices. It's
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
I really really hope Rivian does not fail, but they are trying so hard to make me think otherwise, and not in the usual stick your foot into a political hole Silicon Valley way of failing. They're failing by doing a great job at things
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
Historically the biggest impediment to nuclear power has been incompetent construction management and project management. Incompetent is a strong word for it but nuclear power plants are the largest capital equipment purchases on the planet
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
He's not ignoring it.
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
Fusion will be slow to commercialize. Proof of concept is going to be much harder than for fission reactors. But if and when POC is attained, building commercial fusion reactors will not have as nearly much project risk, much less waste man
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
They are a relative steal compared to previous prices. If I was going to buy a used EV as a commuter vehicle, I buy an even cheaper one to minimize risk from parts and repair costs. I don't know if it's deserved but I see a lot of
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
Except for a Rivian, other car OEM's are selling gasoline vehicles instead of their EVs. Now that EVs are a mature business, it's just a part of every car OEM's product line.
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
Irony is that, at least moving forward, you can see a child in front of a cyber truck before you crush them. But if you hit any anyone with those sharp edges... US truck customers are getting smarter. The fleet trucks, for HVAC, plumbers, a
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
Some modems and radios need more than reference-implementation performance and everything in a phone benefits from power efficiency.
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
"Cocaine is a hell of a drug."
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Blue Origin Might Make Starship Obsolete(wlockett.medium.com)
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
There are a lot of little cores in phones doing little core things. Having a first rate design team experienced in an ISA that is royalty free probably makes sense. They'll be able to expand the use of RISCV up the value chain ver time
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
The neo cloud providers, especially those outside the US, with dubious financial backing, that are buying Nvidia chips as if they were an appreciating asset, kind of like being a bitcoin treasury, will be tempted to create some income in wa
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
Think of everyone. Unless your roboots are weak as a kitten, they are a danger to humans if allowed to be close. Robots that are sold for real money to do real work don't walk around and are strong enough to crush a human like a bug. O
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
It's like how lots of species evolve into crabs, or crab like things. Instead of dying out evolutionarily, failed giants like IBM evolve into Computer Associates.
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
ATProto? (aka AT protocol, ATP, Atmosphere...)
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
On consulting engagements, 0% of the time are Jira and git provisioned correctly for an outside consultant. I used to be appalled at being paid for two or three days of waiting for the IT guy to fix this. Now I use the time to find cleaning
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
Don't underestimate the extent to which this is bothrsome to Elon. Elon went to great length to do a financially dubious deal in which investor-backed X.ai paid full price for Twitter. Rolling Twitter into an AI bubble valuation compan
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
Energy, cooling, and how much of the building you're taking up do matter. They matter less and in a more manageable way for hyperscalers that have a long established resource management practice in lots of big data centers because they
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
The mask shops at TSMC and Samsung kind of are a dark art. It's one of the interesting things about the contract manufacturing business in chips. It's not just a matter of having access to state of the art equipment.
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
The extent to which TPU architecture is built for the purpose also doesn't happen in a single design generation. Ironwood is the seventh generation of TPU, and that matters a lot.
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by Zigurd 11mo ago
Sometimes there's nothing redemptive behind the appearance. It can be like looking for hidden beauty in the cybertruck.

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