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A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava(runnersworld.com)
444 points by aanet 2mo ago|105 comments
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by aanet 2mo ago
Mollie the Hamster, on Strava: https://strava.app.link/FMubyPjMa5b Project: > The main parts are an ESP32 attached to a hall sensor, which I positioned close to the wheel. Using a magnet attached to the back of the whee
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by aanet 2mo ago
+10000 to that
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by aanet 2mo ago
Jeff Dean leaving... as is Sir Demis... What's happening?! Have they had enough of Google?
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by aanet 3mo ago
This is wild. > The incident stemmed from a single evaluation where agents were given a task of solving a cyber security challenge. We ran this challenge 122 times across several models. Our investigation found that in 10 of those runs,
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by aanet 3mo ago
Ace! "My portfolio is down 40%. My conviction is up 400%. Net-net, I'm up 360%. This is called sigma math and they don't teach it in..." and "Month 11 of building in public: Revenue: $0 Users: 0 (2 if you count my
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by aanet 3mo ago
That a professor of philosophy [1] made tools [2] that are used by millions around the world... that's just mind boggling. In a good (great!) way. Pandoc is my go-to tool. Thank you, Sir! [1] https://johnmacfarlane.net/
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by aanet 3mo ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned (including the author) the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect [1]... Just substitute "LLM" for "journalist" and there you have it. And to be honest, I have seen it, as I'm sure (almost) eve
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Apple's New CEO Taps Retired Hardware Executive Laura Legros for Management Team(bloomberg.com)
6 points by aanet 3mo ago|1 comments
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by aanet 3mo ago
Archive: https://archive.is/jQx9p#selection-1179.0-1179.67
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by aanet 3mo ago
Make 'em famous
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Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan's Network School(techcrunch.com)
7 points by aanet 3mo ago|0 comments
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by aanet 3mo ago
SBF would agree
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The unintended consequences of LLMs as a labor-augmenting technology in science(arxiv.org)
1 points by aanet 3mo ago|1 comments
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by aanet 3mo ago
> Enticing as it is to imagine that, by saving us time on mundane tasks, LLMs will provide us with more time to think deeply and develop projects completely, our results temper such hopes.
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by aanet 3mo ago
- Zoox can deploy 2,500 vehicles annually for two years - Company says it will soon charge for service in Las Vegas - NHTSA aims for new autonomous vehicle safety standards
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by aanet 3mo ago
TIL: that Azulejo and zellig (zillig) have similar roots.
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'Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson: Nolan shouldn't have written movie himself(npr.org)
6 points by aanet 3mo ago|1 comments
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by aanet 3mo ago
NPR Fresh Air interview with translator Emily Wilson Worth listening to.
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eBay, former executives to pay $56M to settle couple's harassment case(reuters.com)
5 points by aanet 3mo ago|2 comments
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by aanet 3mo ago
What a wild case Execs sending cockroaches, pig masks to the Steiners, as part of large scale harrassment: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ex-ebay-exec-heading-prison... https://www.reuters.com/bu
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by aanet 3mo ago
> But also, maybe consider not giving a fuck about what someone on the internet think? Are you really that easily swayed by a rando’s opinion? Endorsed. This post gets my vote. Two thumbs up vote.
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Open models for AI were inevitable (op-ed) – Bill Gurley(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by aanet 3mo ago|1 comments
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by aanet 3mo ago
Archive: https://archive.is/N1iZG > They aren’t a security threat — they’re what competition looks like.
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by aanet 3mo ago
From his keynote at ICML 2026 More here https://www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-be-left-for-us-to-work
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AI as Normal Technology- What Will Be Left for Us to Work On?(cs.princeton.edu)
3 points by aanet 3mo ago|5 comments
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Talk by Arvind Narayanan of Princeton > Now is a time of great excitement in AI, but it's also a time of great anxiety in the AI community. I want to address that anxiety head on. How do we prepare for a future where AI will become
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by aanet 3mo ago
Oh no!! I loved Andersen’s Pea Soup. Have great memories of dining there having the endless soup, on my way to Ojai, or back. And bought a carton full of their cans too. Sad to hear they closed and sadder that it will be demolished. ;-(
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by aanet 3mo ago
One doesn't need to be a consultant to realize how people respond to problems (other than solving them). But it helps. Perhaps. Maybe even more so if you (=consultant) leave with just the recommendations, without actually implementin
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by aanet 3mo ago
Thanks. Just ordered

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